Soccer

FINAL: Hawaii came up with a huge road victory in a wild, hostile match, 3-2 at UC Davis. The Rainbow Wahine had to rally from down 2-1 with 34 minutes left when Davis’ Janae Gonzalez put in her second penalty-kick goal of the match, and Kayla Ryan delivered with her team-best sixth and seventh goals of the season on set-ups by teammates. “To be perfectly honest, I was just really impressed with the team and their composure and their mental […]

Hawaii was unable to break the senior night spell Sunday at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium. The Rainbow Wahine ran their winless streak in home finales to six with a 4-1 defeat at the hands of UC Santa Barbara, a blow to the team’s Big West standing with two road matches to play. Unlike last year’s 2-1 fatal loss to last-place Cal State Fullerton, hope remains for the Wahine to make their first Big West Conference tournament. But it just got […]

Could this be the senior class that finally gets the Hawaii soccer team over the hump? It is quite possible, but work remains to be done for the Rainbow Wahine (5-6-3, 3-0-2 Big West) to secure top-four positioning in the BWC and qualify for the conference playoffs. Three games remain, including today’s televised contest against UC Santa Barbara (6-4-5, 2-1-2) at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium. If UH (11 points in standings) can achieve three points today with a win, they’ll […]

Thursday night had letdown written on it from the opening minutes for the Hawaii soccer team. By the end of 110 minutes of a double-overtime match against Cal Poly, however, the Rainbow Wahine had picked themselves up, finishing somewhere between satisfaction and disappointment with a 1-1 draw against the Mustangs. UH (5-6-3, 3-0-2 Big West) picked up a single point toward Big West tournament qualification — not the three they were hoping for entering the night, but not nothing, either. UH […]

The Hawaii soccer team plays two of its biggest matches of Michele Nagamine’s nine years at the helm of the program this week. Those matches — Thursday night against Cal Poly and Sunday against UC Santa Barbara — happen to be the last two home matches of the season. UH (5-6-2, 3-0-1 Big West), after a tough start to the season that included losses to three ranked Pac-12 opponents, has turned things around at midseason to post the program’s best record through […]

Sometimes, a draw feels like either a win or a loss, not something in between. Hawaii’s 1-1 tie with Cal State Fullerton at the Titans’ field Sunday most definitely was a win for the Rainbow Wahine. Thanks to Kayla Ryan’s goal to begin the second half — off of assists from Kayla Watanabe and Kelci Sumida to work the ball ahead, then to the middle — UH squared the match and held on tight through double overtime for their first […]