Last night, the Aztecs barely touched the Rainbows' All-America left sides, with Kahumoku going 17-for-23 without an error — in two games — and Kim Willoughby coming up with yet another double-double (15 kills, 10 digs). Freshman Susie Boogaard gave Kahumoku her first front-row rest of the season in Game 3.

Kahumoku scorched a tournament match-record attack percentage (.739) and put balls down from every angle. She took 13 swings in the second game, and buried 11.

"Lily sees the block so well and takes what they give her," Shoji said. "And when they don't give her anything she just goes over the block. She had every shot going tonight. It was beautiful to watch."

It was a clinic, according to UH setter Margaret Vakasausau.

"Lily is a genius off the court and on the court," Vakasausau said. "She sees things no one else could ever see. She sees the defense shifting around and just puts it where no one can get it. All we can ask of Lily is perfection and she played like that tonight. It was like setting a machine that goes up and attacks and puts it away."

The Aztecs hit for negative percentages the first two games while the Rainbows buried more than half their swings. In the third, UH walk-on Megan O'Brian saw her first action in two years. Aspen McPartland, who came in averaging 3 1/2 kills a game and hitting .414 for SDSU, got just four kills all night and hit negative .048.#034;We had good spirit, Hawai'i's play just discouraged us," SDSU coach Mark Warner said. "When another team puts that kind of pressure on you, you try to do things you can't do. It takes you out of your game. That's the goal of the other team — to try and disrupt you. They did that. We were completely out of synch, couldn't get anything going at all. ...ÊFor us to hit negative, that's just ridiculous."

Washington won last night's opener, 30-14, 30-18, 30-23, over San Francisco (2-4). Coach Jim McLaughlin, who guided the USC men to the 1990 NCAA title, has been at Washington one year. His fingerprints are finally on his team and it has yet to lose a game.

"Tomorrow night will be a challenge," Shoji predicted. "Their offense presents a challenge to us."

QUICK SETS: Hawai'i's most one-sided rally-scoring match came last November when Boise State scored just 43 points i one less than SDSU's total last night. ... Washington got 18 kills from Paige Benjamin last night. She also hit .562. ... Teammate Kaitlin Leck had a tournament match-record eight aces. Leck has a dozen aces in two nights and needs two to break the tournament record set by Loyola Marymount's Kim Blankinship in 1995, the first year of the Challenge.

DIVISION II

• BYUH sweeps: Middle blocker Chun Yi Lin had 29 kills in two matches to lead Brigham Young-Hawai'i to a sweep of its matches in the first day of the Western Washington University Invitational at Bellingham, Wash., yesterday.

Lin had 16 kills in 20 attempts and one error as the Seasiders, ranked No. 7 in NCAA Division II, defeated Seattle Pacific, 30-15, 30-17, 30-20. Lin had 13 kills (18 attempts, no errors), eight digs and three blocks as BYUH (5-0) defeated Cal State Stanislaus 30-9, 30-22, 30-14.

The Seasiders play UC Davis and host and 11th-ranked Western Washington today.

BYUH outside hitter Yu Chuan Weng got 12 kills each against Seattle Pacific and Stanislaus.

• Hilo drops two: Tiffanie Ollison had 15 kills and Sara Pilgreen 12 for the University of Hawai'i-Hilo in a 30-27, 20-30, 23-30, 31-29, 15-12 loss to Humboldt State yesterday at the Cal Poly Pomona Tournament in Pomona, Calif.