The Rainbow Wahine (24-1, 10-0) have won their last 23 overall and last 84 against Western Athletic Conference opponents. The Broncos (5-20, 1-9), desperately trying to get into the WAC Tournament with four freshmen starters, have lost their last 10.

Hawai'i can clinch the tournament's top seed with a win at Nevada Thursday. It has just one regular-season home match remaining — Senior Night, Nov. 15, against San Jose State.

Before 4,739 last night, the Rainbows rolled by BSU, which scored the first three points and never challenged again. But the Broncos did not go away either. They simply could not stop Hawai'i's hitters — particularly Kahumoku.

The senior All-American missed last week's road trip to rest her aching back, then put the hurt on Boise with a brilliant 11-for-13 performance in two games. She buried her first five swings and finished with an .846 hitting percentage, Hawai'i's highest in the rally-scoring era (two-plus seasons) and sixth-highest ever.

She attributed it to taking last week off — "not going was huge for me personally" — and sensing the end of her college career.

"I think everyone is so happy to play at home in front of this crowd. Considering we have one home match left I think we were really fired up. As the matches get fewer and fewer, the reality is that we're going to have to start playing really well really soon. If we don't, well ... we're going to. It's more fun to play well when you're having fun."

The only ineffective Rainbow Wahine early in the match was Kim Willoughby, Kahumoku's All-American counterpart. She hit .091 with four errors in the first game while her teammates combined to go .591.

Willoughby warmed up in Game 2, hitting .500 with three kills while her teammates remained lethal. Kahumoku, Lauren Duggins and Maja Gustin hammered four kills apiece as the team hit .517. Freshman setter Kanoe Kamana'o got in on the action at the net with the first official solo block of her collegiate career.

The players had set a goal before the match to finish by 8:30 p.m. Five were pau by 8 when their efficiency earned them a game off. Willoughby and libero Melissa Villaroman were the only starters to play in Game 3.

"It was a really relaxed night," UH coach Dave Shoji said. "Both teams knew what the outcome was going to be. Boise played much better tonight than they did in Boise. ... They hung in there and kept their focus.

"This was probably our most fun match. Even when we made mistakes we were kind of laughing it off, which we normally don't do. I don't allow it."

The reserves just rolled on behind Willoughby's eight kills, which gave her a match-high 16. She also had eight of Hawai'i's 10 hitting errors, a surprise from the player who leads the country in kills and is 11th in percentage.

"Kim had some errors and nobody else had more than one," Shoji said. "That's pretty amazing."

Freshman Alicia Arnott took up where Kahumoku left off with five kills in six swings in Game 3. It helped to watch Kahumoku go off early.

"She is just such a good athlete that she gets balls normal people wouldn't get," Arnott said. "She's special. She was in a zone."

QUICK SETS: Lily Kahumoku, whose political aspirations became public in yesterday's Advertiser, said she was contacted by the governor's office and the head of the Republican party asking to schedule meetings. ... Kahumoku's parents are Republicans while her hanai parents are Democrats. She has yet to commit to a party.