The Hawaii soccer team earned a rare road runaway victory Sunday, as the Rainbow Wahine rolled through Stockton, Calif., for a 5-0 win over Pacific. UH (3-1) picked up its third straight win, including a two-game road sweep after it had two home games canceled due to the threat of Hurricane Lane.
It matched the most lopsided UH win against a Division I opponent in Michele Nagamine’s eight seasons (5-0 at home over Nevada in 2011).
“Every now and then you get a game like this where everything’s rolling on all cylinders, everything’s clicking,” Nagamine said in a postgame phone interview. “We got in a zone early. The kids have been amazing with their preparation, their discipline and approach to how we prepare for games. That was very, very evident today.”
UH struck fast and hard coming off a 2-1 win at Saint Mary’s on Thursday, piling up three goals in the first 18 minutes of play against another West Coast Conference team in UOP. UH’s four first-half goals tied a program record set against Hawaii Pacific in 2007. Pacific dropped to 2-4.
Scoring goals for UH were McKenzie Moore, Raisa Strom-Okimoto, Daelenn Tokunaga, Cristina Drossos and Leialoha Medeiros. Moore, Tokunaga and Drossos had the first of their careers, while senior co-captain Strom-Okimoto has scored in each game of the Wahine winning streak.
The Wahine resume play Friday against UC San Diego at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium.
Ho wins in Spain
Hawaii’s Coco Ho won the Pull&Bear Pantin Classic Galicia Pro surf contest on Sunday in Spain.
Stop number 10 of 12 on the 2018 World Surf League qualifying series featured 4- to 6-foot surf for the final day of competition. For the second straight year, Ho won the event. She defeated Sage Erickson 12.70 to 11.80 in the final.
Ho took down Australia’s Bronte Macaulay 15.00 to 14.40 in the quarterfinals and beat Paige Hareb 11.33 to 7.17 of New Zealand in the semifinals.