LAS VEGAS — To watch junior college transfer Scott Enos kick in practice at the University of Hawai'i is, as his coaches often puts it, "an adventure."

But turn on the lights at a stadium and he is a different kicker.

The accuracy that sometimes deserts him in practice is, for the most part, no longer a problem as Enos underlined in kicking two field goals, including a 47-yarder, in the Warriors' 34-33 loss to Nevada-Las Vegas.

The 47-yarder was longer than anything Dan Kelly kicked last year and had the potential to be a 50-yarder.

Enos has made good on four of five field-goal attempts this year.

"He's really stepped it up," said special teams coach Chris Tormey. "In practice he has struggled with accuracy but in the games he makes plays. He's been a gamer."

The one Enos missed, a 31-yarder in the first quarter, was one he probably shouldn't have attempted under the circumstances, Tormey said.

The Warriors were late in getting their kicking unit on the field and weren't in rhythm on the attempt. "With the clock ticking, what we should have done was call time out," Tormey said. "We were late in getting out there, so we should have just called a timeout."

MCMACKIN DEFENDS DECISION

UH head coach Greg McMackin defended his decision not to go for a two-point conversion after UH went up 26-21 with 11 minutes, 34 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

Enos kicked the extra point to make it, 27-21.

"I was trying to get our defense corrected," McMackin said. "We were gonna call a timeout."

McMackin said, "We could have gone for two (points), who knows, we might have missed it."

McMackin said, "that really didn't have any difference in the game because the game could have gone down a bunch of different ways. We went for two later on so we went right back ahead. (Some) might think that was a big mistake. But, as it turned out, we were in the ballgame. As it ended up, we lost by one.

"Coulda shoulda, we had two chances to (intercept UNLV) at the end of the game and nobody would have ever worried about it."