IRVINE, Calif. – For an unprecedented third consecutive week, University of Hawai'i junior right-hander
Isaiah Magdaleno has been named the Big West Pitcher of the Week.
Magdaleno captured the conference honor yet again after delivering his second complete-game, one-hit shutout in his last three starts, propelling the Rainbow Warriors to a 4-0 victory over CSUN on Wednesday night at Les Murakami Stadium. The Los Angeles native completely overpowered the Matadors, striking out 14 batters without issuing a single walk to secure his seventh win of the season.
In his last three outings, Magdaleno owns a 0.35 ERA with 39 strikeouts to just two walks over 26.0 innings, giving up a run on six hits. He is the first pitcher in program history to throw multiple one-hit shutouts in a single season and the first pitcher nationally since 2017 (Devin Hemmerich, Norfolk State) to have at least two nine-inning, one-hit shutouts in a year.
The ace was flawless for nearly the entire evening against CSUN, allowing just a solitary single to Mateo Rickman in the fifth inning. Magdaleno hit two batters but was otherwise perfect, efficiently throwing 71 of his 101 pitches for strikes while facing only 30 batters in the 9.0-inning masterpiece.
This latest accolade highlights one of the most dominant three-game pitching stretches in program history. Magdaleno's reign of terror began on May 1 with a historic 16-strikeout, one-hit complete-game shutout against UC Riverside. He followed that up on May 8 by holding UC Davis to just one run on four hits while striking out nine over eight innings.
Magdaleno is the first Big West pitcher since 2018 (Clayton Andrews, Long Beach State) to earn the weekly honor three weeks in a row. It's also the fourth time overall this year that he has been named conference pitcher of the week, the first to accomplish that since 2019 (Trenton Denholm, UC Irvine).
