The season will begin the season with the Hawaiian Airlines Rainbow Wahine Classic from August 30-September 1 that will have San Diego, St. John's and Washington at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Sunday’s series finale also marked the final home game of the season for the Rainbow Warriors. The 'Basebows (20-27, 8-13 Big West) led 3-1 in the top of the ninth before the Gauchos (44-7, 18-3 Big West) rallied to tie the game to force extra innings.
The loss was the first home game for Hawaii (20-25, 8-11 BWC) since April 20th. The ‘Bows took an early lead going up 1-0 thanks to Ethan Lopez before the Gauchos took the lead for good in the top of the fourth inning.
In front of a sellout crowd of approximately 12,000 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, Mililani’s Lee upset Aoki in the main event, much to the delight of his sister Angela Lee, who is also the promotion’s female atomweight champion.
As a way of giving back to Hawaii, the former Punahou graduate made her return to the Blaisdell Center this afternoon to host a Brazilian-jiu-jitsu seminar alongside MMA legend, Royce Gracie.
With dozens of fans and jiu-jitsu practitioners in attendance, Gracie and Macfarlane instructed and demonstrated maneuvers and drills for those in attendance and stressed the importance of self-defense.
The former All-American outside hitter was named to Volleyball Canada’s women’s 2019 indoor team today and will compete at the end of the month in the Challenge Cup - a continental pre-qualifier for Volleyball Nations League to be held from May 31-June 2.
The Warriors haven't played since May 5th’s 3-1 win over Cal State Fullerton and will look to close out the season with a winning record at home as they currently stand at 14-15 in Honolulu.
Junior first baseman/catcher Callee Heen, senior pitcher Brittany Hitchcock and senior third baseman Nicole Lopez all earned first team honors while senior catcher Heather Cameron was named to all-Big West second team.
Ilima-Lei Macfarlane is set to host a special free self defense clinic at the Blaisdell arena alongside legendary Brazilian Ju-Jitsu black belt Royce Gracie.
Holloway (20-4 MMA, 16-4 UFC) will put his belt up for grabs against Frankie Edgar (23-6-1 MMA, 17-6-1 UFC) at UFC 240 in July. MMA Junkie and ESPN have verified verbal agreements are in place with both parties management.
Jones, 67, has accepted the head coaching position for the XFL’s Houston franchise. The former Rainbow Warrior football head coach will also serve as the franchise’s general manager.
Jake Tsukada led the way for the Buffanblu going 2-of-3 from the plate scoring a run and recording an RBI-double. On the mound, Tyler Shimabukuro pitched 4.3 innings, allowing just one run in the win.
The legendary, retired broadcaster spent part of his Saturday morning sitting on his front porch with the Hawaii News Now sports team to share some memories of the late Dick Tomey, who died Friday night after losing his battle with lung cancer.
Tomey’s legacy as a coach for the Rainbow Warrior football team speaks for itself. But the impact he made on others, particularly Matlin, will be what is remembered the most.
Many members of the Hawaii football community and across the country shared their thoughts, prayers and memories of Tomey this morning on social media:
With her pitching career in the rear-view mirror, Hitchcock can look back on a six-year span that saw her rewrite the record books in multiple categories.
In the loss, head coach Bob Coolen started all seven seniors on the field for their final collegiate game with Hitchcock pitching,, Heather Cameron catching, Alyssa Sojka at first, Jenna Kumabe at second base, Nicole Lopez at shortstop, Carly Pina at third and Jennifer Iseri in leftfield.
The Golden Bears (17-8) pulled away in the third quarter, going up 11-8 before ending the period leading 13-11. In the fourth, California scored four goals over the final eight minutes of the match to put the game on ice.
Brittany Hitchcock earned the complete game win in Game 1, pitching a full 12 innings, improving to 20-7 on the season after recording 13 strikeouts while allowing just one run on five hits.
The University of Hawaii at Manoa Athletics Department confirmed with Hawaii News Now that the bags contained headgear, game day clothes and other personal possessions along with some of the players passports.
The Warriors set an NCAA record 74-straight sets won, a new program record 25-straight matches won and clinched the program's first ever Big West title.
Kamaka missed the 171 pound weight limit requirement by over a pound and a half. Kamaka will forfeit 20% of his purse and Cooper will be awarded the three points in the PFL’s scoring system
The game is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. Hawai’i time. This is just the sixth time in program history the Rainbow Wahine are competing in the NCAA tournament.
The sixth-year senior is currently No. 4 in program history in strikeouts, No. 4 in wins, No. 4 in complete games and No. 2 with 137 appearances for Hawaii.
Ige is currently on a three-fight win streak in the UFC featherweight division while Aguilar hasn’t lost a UFC bout in over five years, defeating Enrique Barzola back on March 20th to pick up his ninth-straight win.
The Rainbow Warrior team didn’t finish their 2019 campaign as national champions, but they earned a hero’s welcome at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport all the same.
Fans flocked from Honolulu to the Walter Pyramid for a chance to see history and although the season didn’t end the way they’d hoped for,, fans were still in full support of their team - no matter what.
What the team was able to accomplish off the court in terms of rallying the local community and inspiring fans across the country will be this team’s legacy for years to come.
With the Hawaiian flag draped over his shoulder like a cape, Ethan Siegfried celebrated his NCAA national championship victory Saturday night with his friends and family on the court.
While the ‘Bows were snubbed from the NCAA Tournament in 2018, Wade remained steadfast in his belief that the Warriors would return in 2019 and compete at the highest level.
Nearly a week after denying allegations of sexual misconduct, Wade made his first appearance before the national media on Wednesday and was pressed by members of the media to address the allegations.
Melounova was also named to the all-Big West first team for the third-consecutive season in both singles and doubles. Earlier this week, she received an automatic bid to the NCAA Singles Championship.
Opposite hitter and Bulgarian native Rado Parapunov, outside hitter Stijn van Tilburg, libero Gage Worsley and setter Joe Worsley were picked to the first team while middle blocker Patrick Gasman was selected to the second team.
The Warriors will now look to July as they’ll begin to prepare for the 2019 schedule, with the first game of the season set for Saturday, August 24th against Arizona at Aloha Stadium.
Senior Brittany Hitchcock earned her second complete game win of the series to improve to 16-7 overall and 8-2 in the Big West. She allowed just one run on three hits with zero walks and two strikeouts.
In the third, Macfarlane found herself in Arteaga’s guard and decided to return the favor with some elbows of her own, one of which landed flush on the challenger's forehead which opened a gruesome cut that forced the referee to intervene.
The ‘Bows had a 3-0 lead over the Gauchos before UC Santa Barbara launched a comeback, but senior Maayan Sela came up clutch for the Wahine to pull off the upset.
In three seasons at the University of Hawaii, Ursua recorded 2,662 yards on 189 receptions including 89 catches for 1,343 yards and 16 receiving touchdowns this past season.
