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RENO, Nev. - The University of Hawai`i Rainbow Wahine soccer team dropped its third straight match with a 5-0 loss to Nevada Friday night at Mackay Stadium. Nevada scored three goals in the first half, including two less than three minutes into the match, to cruise to victory and post its first-ever win over UH.

Hawai`i entered the match having dominated the series, beating the Wolf Pack in all six previous meetings and out-scoring them 23-4 in the process, including a 3-0 WAC-title clinching win in Honolulu last year. The Wolf Pack exacted its revenge by blitzing UH with five goals and handing the Rainbow Wahine its worst loss in eight years.

The five goals allowed was the most since a 5-1 loss to Pepperdine in 2000, while the five-goal margin was the largest since a 7-0 drubbing at BYU in 1998.

Nevada took full advantage of a reshuffled UH lineup. With two players making their first start in the backline for UH, Nevada scored early and often. The Wolf Pack recorded two goals in the first 2:40 and never looked back. Miranda Montejo got Nevada on the board just 1:10 into the match when received a pass from Samantha Miller and chipped a shot over UH goalkeeper Kori Lu. Miller would set up another teammate just 90 seconds later when she found Aivi Luik in the box. Luik beat a UH defender before getting past Lu to put Nevada up, 2-0.

Luik scored her second goal of the evening in the 28th minute when she volleyed in a Jessica Thompson cross from the left flank. The Wolf Pack tacked on two goals in the final six minutes of the match by Karen Zmirak and Kenishia Warren.

Nevada out-shot UH, 21-4. The Rainbow Wahine went the first 60 minutes without a shot, before Vanessa Bailey hit a low-liner that went wide of the goal.

The loss also marked UH's first three-match losing streak in conference since 2000, the last season Hawai`i failed to qualify for the WAC Tournament. Despite the loss, the Rainbow Wahine qualified for next week's WAC Tournament and a return trip to Reno by virtue of Idaho and Louisiana Tech's 1-1 draw earlier in the day. UH can finish no lower than sixth in the WAC standings, thus gaining a berth in its sixth straight conference tournament.

UH concludes its regular-season schedule at Fresno State on Sunday, Oct. 29. Kickoff is at 2:00 p.m. PST.

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