Softball

After 33 games and a 10-day break, the University of Hawaii softball team starts over Friday night. The Rainbow Wahine open the Big West schedule against the conference’s hottest team in UC Riverside. The three-game series opens with Friday’s 6 p.m. meeting at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium and the Wahine and Highlanders play a 4 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday. UH took spring break to rejuvenate from a grueling stretch of non-conference tournaments and enter Big West play at 19-14. Following […]

With 33 games in the books and 21 Big West games left on the schedule, Rainbow Wahine softball coach Bob Coolen set Thursday aside as a day of reflection. The Wahine had just two days off in a grueling run of 13 games in 13 days, finishing with a doubleheader split against Columbia on Tuesday night to close the nonconference schedule. They entered a nine-day break before opening Big West play at 19-14 and Coolen planned to have the players […]

After taking its mandated day off on Wednesday, the Rainbow Wahine won’t have many more breaks in the schedule over the next three weeks. The Wahine (9-7) open the Pepsi Malihini Kipa Aloha Tournament on Thursday with their annual meeting with California at 6 p.m. at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. Unlike the previous two tournaments hosted by UH, this one won’t end with a playoff bracket. UH will simply play four games over the next four days starting with the […]

Rainbow Wahine freshman Rachel Lack was again named to Australia’s national team this week after a solid performance in national championships in early January. Lack made her debut with the national team last year and returns to the roster along with former UH standouts Kaia Parnaby, Stacey Porter, Justine Smethurst and Clare Warwick. Lack played with Porter and Parnaby for New South Wales in the Open Women’s National Championship held Jan. 4-10 and hit .371 with four doubles while driving […]