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Rainbow Forecast: Washington State to test Hawaii baseball; women’s basketball has first-place showdown; SandBows begin

By Brian McInnis on February 17, 2020

With the exception of the top-ranked Hawaii men’s volleyball team, just about every other spring sport is in action this week. That includes beach volleyball, which opens its 2020 season in the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Beach Classic at Queen’s Beach. The SandBows begin at No. 5. Scout the smorgasbord below and pick your spots, because there’s an absolute ton going on — though much of it takes place on the mainland for sports like water polo, swimming and women’s tennis. The […]

Rainbow Forecast: Marquee matchups at home for Hawaii basketball, on road for men’s volleyball

By Brian McInnis on February 10, 2020

All five of Hawaii’s primary spring spectator sports are in action this week, plus some others. The No. 1 UH men’s volleyball team (12) and Rainbow Wahine basketball team (five) put some significant win streaks on the line. The volleyballers head to the Bay Area to face No. 11 Stanford in a two-match set, while the Wahine host always-competitive Cal State Northridge. UH men’s basketball has two marquee home matchups in Long Beach State on Wednesday and league leader UC […]

Hawaii softball: Rainbow Wahine settle into new roles in opening tournament

By Brian McInnis on February 9, 2020

The Paradise Classic ended the way it started for the Hawaii softball team. With a lopsided win over Northern Colorado. In between, the Rainbow Wahine took their lumps from Memphis and Iowa State, the latter of which went on to win the four-team tournament on Saturday afternoon, as they worked through new roles and responsibilities. After beating UNC 11-2 in the season opener Thursday, the Wahine absorbed 8-4 and 15-3 successive defeats to ISU and Memphis on Friday. The first […]

Hawaii softball: Rainbow Wahine roll to season-opening win over Northern Colorado

By Jason Kaneshiro on February 6, 2020

A rocky top of the first inning was long forgotten by the time the University of Hawaii softball team finished off a rollicking bottom of that inning to open the 2020 season. The Rainbow Wahine spotted Northern Colorado a run on a miscommunication in the infield with two out in the first inning on Thursday. But they more than made up for the miscue by pounding out six hits in a nine-run outburst in their first turn at bat to […]

Hawaii softball: Coach Bob Coolen readies for 29th season

By Brian McInnis on January 23, 2020

The Hawaii softball team made a return to relevance in 2019. Will it build on that act, or recede? UH, second place in the Big West a year ago, was this week picked to finish third in the eight-team league, behind four-time defending champion Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State. Coach Bob Coolen launched his 29th season as head coach with the team’s first official practices last week. The regular-season opener is Feb. 6 against Northern Colorado in the […]

Hawaii softball: 2020 schedule officially released

By Brian McInnis on December 4, 2019

Hawaii softball’s official 47-game 2020 schedule was officially released. Thirty of those games take place at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium, with the highlight the inclusion of Women’s College World Series team Minnesota of the Big Ten in the Rainbow Wahine Classic. UH will face the Gophers on March 11 and 13, just prior to the start of Big West play. The opener is against Northern Colorado on Feb. 6 in the Paradise Classic. Notably, UH is not participating in UNLV’s […]

VIDEO: Hawaii softball alumna Jazmine Zamora hits it long in golf, too

By Warrior World on July 19, 2019

In case you missed it, check out Jason Kaneshiro’s story on Hawaii softball alumna Jazmine Zamora, who’s picked up an interesting new hobby in her post-UH career. Here’s the accompanying video interview with Zamora, the 2013 All-Big West first-teamer who can now blast drives 250-plus yards off the tee. She’s taken to participating in national long drive competitions. Here’s Zamora in her UH softball days:

Local fastpitch softball leader Warren Okinaka’s life to be celebrated

By Dave Reardon on July 13, 2019

The life of Warren Okinaka, a leader in the fastpitch softball community, will be celebrated Sunday, July 21 at Pearl Harbor. He died July 7 of natural causes at age 71. Okinaka was a civil engineer at he Pearl Harbor Shipyard. Okinaka was especially known as a coach, for organizing the Oahu Junior Olympic Softball Program in 1987 and also as an umpire and a mentor for many other umpires. “He was even a one-man grounds crew, dragging the fields […]

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