LIVE UPDATES HERE FINAL — UC Irvine 3, Hawaii 2. Hawaii has a few chances in desperation mode in the final few minutes but cannot convert. The Eaters turtle the ball in the corner and run out the clock. Sixth straight BWC defeat for UH going back to 2016. 80th minute — Tia Furuta nearly puts in a rebound goal with a header but the ball shoots wide. At the other end, Lex Mata with a nice save in the open field […]
Shot after shot of the ball went right into the mitts, the body, maybe even off the head of UC Davis goalkeeper Alexis Smith. With the Hawaii soccer team facing a one-goal deficit in the second half, the Rainbow Wahine fired nine attempts on frame in an attempt to equalize. Smith stopped them all en route to an 11-save effort in a 1-0 Aggies win over the Wahine to open Big West Conference play on Thursday. UH coach Michele Nagamine […]
It’s a safe bet the Hawaii soccer team won’t take home some weekly hardware Monday, a first in three weeks. That’s through no fault of the Rainbow Wahine; they were completely off from game action for the past week after winning their last three nonconference road games. UH (5-4) opens BWC play at UC Davis (1-9) on Thursday. The Wahine spent the week resting up and tuning up for the Aggies and a follow-up game at always-tough Long Beach State […]
You don’t encounter this very often at the University of Hawaii, except maybe in the realm of volleyball. UH swept the Big West’s women’s soccer athlete of the week awards on offense and defense, the conference announced today. Forward Sonest Furtado received the offensive award after compiling two goals and an assist on her team’s 2-0 road trip to Arizona State and Grand Canyon, while goalkeeper Alexis Mata netted the defensive award for her 13 saves in the 1-0 (OT) […]
LIVE UPDATES HERE FINAL — Hawaii 2, Grand Canyon 1. Sonest Furtado has the first multi-goal game for a UH player this season as the Wahine (5-4) take their third straight road game to close nonconference play. First three-game road winning streak for the program since beating UCSB, USC and LMU in succession, all by 2-1 scores, in a five-day stretch in Sept. of 2004. 85th minute, Hawaii 2, Grand Canyon 1 — Furtado strikes again from a similar spot as her […]
LIVE UPDATES HERE 96th minute, Hawaii 1, Arizona State 0 — GAME. Raisa Strom-Okimoto put aside a series of near misses — her winning ball was her eighth attempt — when she got far upfield on a breakaway, dribbled to the left goalpost then fired to the far post past the ASU goakeeper and in. UH earns its second straight road win, including the first over a Pac-12 opponent since 2013. END REGULATION, START OF FIRST OT 89th minute, Hawaii […]
Hawaii goalkeeper Lex Mata was named the Big West soccer defensive player of the week today, on the heels of her eight-save shutout performance in a 2-0 win at Idaho State last Tuesday. It is the first career PoW honor for the junior — who earned full-time starting keeper status in the preseason — and the first weekly award, offense or defense, for a Rainbow Wahine player this season. From UH media relations, here’s a compilation of some of Mata’s nice […]
LIVE UPDATES FINAL — Hawaii 2, Idaho State 0: Valiant second-half effort for UH, which had to fend off a number of Bengal chances before the Wahine broke through late. Lex Mata recorded eight saves, easily a career best, in the team’s first clean sheet of the season. UH improves to 3-4 going into its alumnae exhibition on Sunday at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium. 88th minute — Hawaii 2, Idaho State 0: Mikaelah Johnson-Griggs ices the road win off an assist […]