Another rare start

Last season’s Hawaii soccer team set plenty of milestones during its nonconference season, in which it went 7-1-1.

By going 2-0 through the season-opening Ohana Outrigger Resorts Shootout, the 2017 Rainbow Wahine are, for now, keeping the pace. The last time they were 2-0 was 2007, which makes sense when you consider that was the last season they won their season opener, until Friday’s win over Utah Valley.

Here were UH’s goals against UVU, including the winner by Sarah Lau.

Preseason All-#BigWest Raisa Strom-Okimoto equalizer, then Sarah Lau GOLDEN for @UHWahineSoccer Friday!#GoBows | #BWCWSOC | #StartBig ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/aBxaJLMb4v

— Big West W-Soccer (@BigWestWSOC) August 19, 2017

And here was Raisa Strom-Okimoto’s winning goal from Sunday night’s 2-1 overtime win over Fairfield. Check out Leialoha Medeiros’ bicycle kick attempt, which (inadvertently) led to the open shot for Strom-Okimoto.

MT @UHWahineSoccer: If you like:
✅ Bicycle kick attempts
✅ Shots DEEP that find the net
✅ #HawaiiWSOC Golden goalspic.twitter.com/hmnleRgCQR

— Big West W-Soccer (@BigWestWSOC) August 22, 2017

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Strom-Okimoto had a good shot at Big West Offensive Player of the Week on Monday, but that went to UC Santa Barbara’s Amanda Ball, who has three goals to RSO’s two.

The Aiea High product said of the Fairfield game, “It was kind of frustrating at the beginning, we didn’t play to our full potential. But toward the last 10 minutes and overtime we got it together, started playing our game … we got a lot more shots off and a lot more opportunities.”

Here’s UH’s goal scorers (with career count) so far:
Raisa Strom-Okimoto, 2 (9 career)
Sonest Furtado, 1 (8 career)
Sarah Lau, 1 (4 career)

And assists:
Izzy Deutsch, 1 (1 career)
Kiri Dale, 1 (1 career)
Mikaelah Johnson-Griggs, 1 (1 career)

Also: UH freshman defender Cristina Drossos was to get an MRI Monday night to assess the damage to her knee from late in the game against Fairfield. Coach Michele Nagamine expressed doubt after the game that Drossos, who’d played every minute of both games to that point, will be back anytime soon.

“She got taken out. It was a pretty blatant foul,” Nagamine said. “It was pretty brutal. … I don’t think we’re going to have her for a while, to be honest.”

The Wahine open their next tournament, the Outrigger Soccer Classic, at 7 p.m. Thursday against Pacific of the West Coast Conference.