For one night at least, the 15th annual Honolulu Advertiser Volleyball Challenge was anything but challenging.

Sixth-ranked Hawai‘i ended its two-match free fall with a 25-13, 25-13, 25-17 victory over Weber State tonight. That one-sided match followed a performance just as dominant by 10th-ranked Stanford in its win over Texas-San Antonio.
Opening night of UH’s third consecutive tournament was watched by 3,114 at Stan Sheriff Center — the season’s smallest crowd. The Rainbow Wahine (5-2) play UTSA tomorrow at 7 p.m., with the Cardinal and Wildcats meeting at 5 p.m. Hawai‘i takes on Stanford in Saturday’s finale.
Hawai‘i got at least five kills from four hitters against Weber State (1-7), which has lost its last five. The Rainbow Wahine, who brought in three new starters in the final set, were led by sophomore Kanani Danielson’s 11 kills. Senior Amber Kaufman had eight kills on .538 hitting.
The Wildcats, swept for the fifth time this season, got seven kills from senior Chelsea Bair.
Weber State was little challenge from the start. Hawai‘i scored 12 of the first 15 points and two of the Wildcats’ points came on missed serves. The ‘Bows hit .400, with 12 kills and two errors, and limited the Wildcats to .160 hitting and nine kills — four by Bair.
Weber State rode three more missed UH serves to a 6-3 advantage in the second set before the bottom fell out. Liz Ka‘aihue served 10 straight points, with Danielson getting the first three and a combination of Wildcat miscues and Amber Kaufman collecting the rest.
The final set was tied at 8 before the Rainbows scored 10 of the next 14 points
In a 64-minute opener, Stanford rolled over Texas-San Antonio, 25-17, 25-11, 25-9.
The Cardinal (4-2), in the process of replacing four seniors off the team that swept Hawai‘i in last year’s regionals, stayed with its starters and got 16 kills from Janet Okogbaa. She took only 19 swings and hit .842.
Stanford, which has its lowest ranking since the end of 2005, has three other players out with injury this weekend.
The Roadrunners (3-6) hit zero in the second set and .098 for the match, to Stanford’s .554 — with only one hitting error.
“That was the most embarrassing showing I’ve ever seen,” said UTSA’s Laura Neugebauer-Groff, who became the program’s winningest coach Tuesday. “We knew we were the underdog. All I wanted them to do was play with a whole lot of heart and we didn’t have any heart at all.”
San Antonio got seven kills apiece from Briana Mason and Kendra Rowland.

NOTES
In just her sixth collegiate match, Kamehameha graduate Caitlin Andrade collected a triple-double. The San Jose State freshman became just the second setter in school history to achieve the rare feat Wednesday, and the eighth Spartan overall. Andrade recorded 32 assists, 12 digs and 10 kills in a three-set loss at Saint Mary’s. Freshman Alex Akana, another Kamehameha grad, led San Jose (0-6) with 11 kills and .550 hitting. Word of Life graduate Chanteal Satele led SMU (5-1) with 15 kills.