The Hawaii women’s soccer team is out to make its final tour of duty in the Western Athletic Conference a memorable one.

UH backed up an upset of projected champion Utah State on Friday by wrecking Nevada 5-0 on Sunday at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium.

None of the crowd would confuse the Wolf Pack for a good team, but the Rainbow Wahine (3-8 overall, 2-0 WAC) are starting to look like one at the right time. Passes were crisp, energy was consistent and the Wolf Pack (2-11, 0-1) were pressured into two own goals.

"Our main focus today was proving a point that Friday wasn’t a fluke," said UH junior goalkeeper Kanani Taaca, who recorded her first shutout of the season. "We always say, ‘Winning is contagious.’ And I think we caught it."

Sporting its special black uniforms, UH won consecutive games for the first time since September 2009. The last time UH did it in the WAC was 2008.

First-year coach Michele Nagamine’s goal of making the WAC tournament with a top-six finish is looking good (there are only five league regular-season games remaining), but she didn’t want her team thinking too far down the road. UH’s next contest is at Idaho on Friday.

"We’ve had two good games in a row, and now our goal is to have three good games in a row," Nagamine said. "I think we’ve been searching for an identity, and now we’re starting to finally realize what it feels like to finish games. … We’re not going to look past any opponent and start talking about November when it’s still October. That’s the biggest mistake we could make."

Point taken. There is a good omen, however. The last time UH opened WAC play 2-0, in 2007, it won the conference and made its first NCAA tournament. No players remain from that team.

Senior defender Brittani Lum struck first with her team-best fifth goal on a free kick just outside the penalty box in the 22nd minute.

Nevada struggled to come back after its own goal in the 43rd minute on an errant slide tackle made it 2-0 at halftime.

"I knew that Hawaii, despite their (overall) record, that wasn’t going to be the team we were going to face," Nevada coach Melissa Price said. "(For us), mismanaging emotions, that’s just it. You have to be able to deal with that as a team."

UH poured it on in the second half. Sophomore midfielder Karli Look buried the Pack with a third goal on a corner kick by Rachel Domingo in the 48th minute.

Five minutes later, freshman midfielder Krystal Pascua took a pass from Tiana Fujimoto and put one through from 20 yards out to make it 4-0.

Domingo lobbed a free kick into the box that was deflected in by a Pack player for the game’s final score in the 66th minute.