The University of Hawai‘i Warrior football team will finish its 11-day road trip, Saturday, with a conference match against the UNLV Rebels. Kickoff is at 5 p.m., Hawai‘i Standard Time. The Warriors (2-0) are coming off a 38-20 win over
The University of Hawai‘i Warrior football team will finish its 11-day road trip, Saturday, with a conference match against the UNLV Rebels.
Kickoff is at 5 p.m., Hawai‘i Standard Time.
The Warriors (2-0) are coming off a 38-20 win over Washington State, the program’s first road victory over a BCS conference team, states a UH release.
In the win, Hawai‘i piled up 626 yards of total offense — the most since the 2006 Sheraton Hawai‘i Bowl — and were led by quarterback Greg Alexander, the Westeren Athletic Conference offensive player of the week, who threw for a career-high 453 yards and three touchdowns.
Receivers Greg Salas, 195 yards and a touchdown, and Rodney Bradley, 150 yards and two touchdowns, combined for 345 yards receiving and three scores.
Defensively, the Warriors forced seven Cougar turnovers and raced out to a 35-0 lead in the first five minutes of the second quarter.
Mana Silva picked off two Washington State passes while linebacker Corey Paredes, the WAC’s defensive player of the week, had eight tackles, including a quarterback sack and forced two fumbles.
UNLV, suffering a 23-21 loss to the Oregon State after the Beavers kicked the go-ahead field goal in the last seven seconds, are currently 1-1. Backup quarterback Mike Clausen rallied the Rebels with two fourth-quarter TD passes that gave UNLV a 21-20 lead at the 4:16 mark.
Both teams have met 18 times with Hawai‘i holding a 12-6 edge. Hawai‘i won the last two meetings, in 2006 (42-13) and in 2007 (49-14). Hawai‘i leads 5-4 in games played in Las Vegas.
During the 2007 game in Las Vegas, UNLV scored on their opening possession, but the Warriors responded with 42 unanswered points for a 49-14 win behind quarterback Colt Brennan who passed for 298 yards and two touchdowns. He also rushed for three scores.
The game will be broadcast on ESPN 1420 live with Bobby Curran and Robert Kekaula and John Veneri. Don Robbs, Chris Hart and Gary Dickman will host the “Countdown to Kickoff” starting at 3:30 p.m.
