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HONOLULU – The University of Hawai'i football team got off to a fast start but saw San Jose State reel off 31 straight points in a 37-27 loss Saturday in a Mountain West game at Hawaiian Airlines Field at Aloha Stadium.
 
In the first meeting between the teams as MW members, the Rainbow Warriors (0-5, 0-3 MW) led 14-3 in the first quarter before the Spartans scored 31 unanswered for a 34-14 lead. Hawai'i saw its season-opening losing streak extend to five games, its worst start since the winless 1998 campaign. The Spartans (2-3, 1-1) snapped a three-game losing streak.
 
UH quarterback Sean Schroeder, who started the game at wide receiver, took the majority of the snaps the rest of the game and finished with 28-of-50 for a career-high 342 yards and three touchdowns. He was also picked off three times. Wide receiver Vasquez Haynes hauled in six catches for a career-high 128 yards and one score while running back Steven Lakalaka carried 16 times for 77 yards.
 
SJSU quarterback David Fales threw for 318 yards and three scores. The Spartans out-gained the Rainbow Warriors, 534-to-473.
 
After the Spartans got on the scoreboard first with a 44-yard field goal by Austin Lopez, the Warriors answered with a six-play drive capped by a nine-yard touchdown rush by Chris Gant off an end-around. The Warriors got on the scoreboard again after a SJSU punt and Schroeder found Haynes in the back of the end zone. During that drive, freshman Ikaika Woolsey, who started the game at quarterback, completed a 44-yard pass to Haynes.
 
But Fales led the Spartans answered back with consecutive touchdown drives – the first a 61-yard connection with Chandler Jones and the second a 35-yard pass to Billy Freeman. The Spartans extended their lead to 20-14 following a career-long 51-yard field goal by Lopez, which hit the cross bar and bounced over.
 
Just before the half, the Spartans scored again after UH's failed fourth-down attempt gave SJSU the ball near midfield. Two plays later, Jarrod Lawson scooted 39 yards for the score and a 27-14 halftime lead.
 
The Spartans got on the scoreboard first in the second half when Tyler Winston out-wrestled the ball away from UH's Trayvon Henderson in the endzone for a 27-yard score. UH answered that score as Schroeder marched the team downfield in just over a minute and a half, capped by a 28-yard touchdown pass to Billy Ray Stutzmann cutting the deficit to 34-21.
 
The Warriors scored again midway through the fourth quarter as Schroeder found Chris Gant for a 50-yard catch and score with 7:51 left. UH missed the two-point conversion and Hawai'i could not muster anything else on offense on its final possession.
 
The Warriors return to the mainland for a MW contest at UNLV, Saturday, Oct. 12 in Las Vegas, Nev.