{"id":184345,"date":"2026-03-09T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184345\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:32:23","slug":"hughes-honored-as-caa-co-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184345\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Honored As CAA Co-Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     WILMINGTON, N.C.\u00a0\u2013 UNCW sophomore infielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uncwsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/mason-hughes\/9302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9302\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Hughes<\/a>\u00a0lifted UNCW to a series sweep at Jacksonville, and a 3-1 week overall, by hitting .500 (6-for-12) for the week.<\/p>\n<p>For UNCW, it was the first non-conference series road sweep since 2020, when the Seahawks swept Kentucky. Jacksonville entered the series receiving votes in the national polls.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes opened the series with a career game, collecting four hits, scoring and knocking in three runs. His first three knocks were infield hits, and in the ninth inning, he belted his first career homer.<\/p>\n<p>Against East Carolina, Hughes came off the bench to go 1-for-2.<\/p>\n<p>Through 14 games, Hughes is hitting a robust .414, has scored 11 runs and knocked in five.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks host Charleston Southern on Tuesday at 6 p.m., to open a week that includes the conference-opening weekend with visiting Elon on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; WILMINGTON, N.C.\u00a0\u2013 UNCW sophomore infielder\u00a0Mason Hughes\u00a0lifted UNCW to a series sweep at Jacksonville, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-184345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}