The Hawaii soccer team has worked up an appetite.

By earning a draw with Oregon and beating Nevada on opening weekend, the Rainbow Wahine set the table with their best two-game start since 2007.

But will that success carry over to the next course — this week’s Outrigger Soccer Classic tournament? The specialties are Big Sky opponents Sacramento State (1-1) today and Idaho State (1-2) on Saturday.

“They got a taste of it and I think they’re hungry,” UH coach Michele Nagamine said of her players, who earned co-champion status of last week’s Outrigger event.

UH served up a new attitude on the Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium pitch, having digested some of the chemistry issues that persisted through 14 losses last season. The body language was there to see not only in team celebrations on scores by Sonest Furtado, Raisa Strom-Okimoto and Addie Steiner, but in more subtle moments on the sideline, too.

“All the girls are way closer and we just play for each other. That’s the bottom line,” said sophomore Sarah Lau, one of a few players to accept a change of position this season.

Lau, a natural defender, has moved up to the midfield, along with Madison Reed and Ryan Daniel. Others, like Storm Kenui and T.J. Reyno, have shifted to the back.

Thanks in part to that tweaked defensive front, senior goalkeeper Monk Berger looked rejuvenated in posting a career-high nine saves against Oregon and yielding just a goal in both games.

“We’re solid. We trust each other,” Berger said. “We built that trust. We have each other’s back. It reminds me a lot of my freshman year, when we had Chelsea Miyake, Lidia (Battaglia), Malé (Fresquez) and Karli Look. … I’m kind of getting to taste that, a little bit.”

Strom-Okimoto looked comfortable as the go-to holding midfielder, notching assists on both UH goals in live play, and Steiner, the touted Northwestern transfer, showed her capabilities at attacking mid while finishing off Nevada in the 87th minute.

Up top, Furtado was impactful in earning MVP of the first tourney with a goal and an earned penalty kick.

As a caution, UH opened impressively in 2015, too, a 2-1 loss to No. 3 Stanford.

“Last season we had a good first game and then we kind of died out,” Lau said. “But this past weekend was good. We kept our momentum going from the Oregon game to the Nevada game, even though coming off of preseason camp all our legs are dead.”

Nagamine would like to see her team better maintain its pace from the opener — it sputtered at times against Nevada — and utilize the full field instead of gravitating to the side with the benches.

“I think this is a pretty easy group to motivate,” Nagamine said, “and now … they’ve got a taste of how the other side of the game can go after so many unfortunate incidences, and time after time bad luck last year.”