The only loss suffered by No. 3 Hawaii on Thursday came just before the start of the Outrigger Invitational.

Both matches scheduled for tonight, including UH playing No. 14 Lewis, were canceled due to the ongoing storm.

That leaves the Rainbow Warriors likely with only one match left before the start of Big West play, weather permitting, against No. 1 UCLA on Saturday night.

Both the Bruins and Rainbow Warriors began the tournament with sweeps, as Hawaii easily took care of Mount Olive 25-18, 25-19, 25-17.

A Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center crowd of 3,329, who arrived just before the start of a major downpour, saw 13 Rainbow Warriors get into the game.

Kristian Titiryski had a match-high 10 kills and two aces in his first match in nearly two months and Finn Kearney added nine kills.

Adrien Roure had five kills in the opening set before resting the next two sets.

Hawaii hit a season-high .603 and Justin Todd set a career high with four aces.

“Always good to get some guys some run,” Hawaii coach Charlie Wade said. “Pretty pleased with the offensive efficiency. No matter who we rolled out there seemed to do a nice job.”

Kearney sparked the Rainbow Warriors with back-to-back aces out of the media timeout in the opening set.

UH scored 13 of the final 19 points in the set after it was tied 12-12 and hit .650 with only one hitting error.

UH brought in three new starters for the second set, including Titriyski, who played for the first time since Jan. 14 against Rockhurst.

He was met with a prolonged ovation when his name was introduced over the PA system and then minutes later unloaded on his first opportunity for a kill.

“It was just nice to play,” Titriyski said. “I was really happy to see that. If (the fans) like me so much then I had to do something.”

Kearney and Titriyski each finished with six kills in the second set and Todd and Kai Taylor added aces.

Freshman outside hitter Thatcher Fahlbusch made his third appearance of the season in the third set and put down all four of his kill attempts.

Todd had three of his aces in the third set and had a chance to serve for the match but hammered a ball into the net.

“I missed that serve because I was wearing the same shoes the whole game and it actually blew up and I had to change shoes before my last rotation,” Todd said. “I think it was because of the shoe. I had to change and It felt different and I was thinking about it too.”

Hawaii hit .632 in the final set playing all reserves at the pin hitter positions.

Setter Tread Rosenthal played the entire match and had 36 assists, six digs and three kills. Wade said he would have likely used backup setter Magnus Hettervik if tonight’s game was still on.

“If it was going to be three days in a row, I would have started a little different lineup,” Wade said. “As it started going, it was like, I really need to see Finn and Kristian with Tread in that environment. That was good too.”

With the entire campus shut down, Hawaii won’t practice today. For exchange or refunds of today’s single-game tickets, contact the Stan Sheriff Center Ticket Office.

UH’s softball games against Cal State Fullerton have been moved to noon and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Also, the Rainbow Wahine volleyball team has canceled its scheduled day trip to Kauai to host a practice and a keiki clinic.

NO. 1 UCLA 3, NO. 14 LEWIS 0

Bruins middle blocker Cameron Thorne led a balanced attack with 10 kills and hit .643 to help the Bruins sweep the Flyers 25-22, 25-23, 25-19.

Sean Kelly and David Decker had nine kills each for UCLA (17-0), which defeated Hawaii in the national semifinals last season.

Daniel Haber had a match-high 14 kills for Lewis (12-8).

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A non-profit focused on preserving and perpetuating Mele Hawaii has opened a cultural hub filled with pieces of Hawaiian history.

Let’s go holoholo to the Lokomaika’i Hawaii Heritage Center.

Tulutulu Mana is a curator for the Lokomaika’i Hawaii Heritage Center.

“The more I look at this space, the more I think wow, I’ve touched every single one of these pieces, which is mind-boggling,” said Mana.

It’s like a mini museum within this 1920 plantation home; that’s right behind Lunalilo Home in Hawaii Kai.

Mana said in partnership with the King Lunalilo trust, instead of paying rent, the non-profit hosts classes three times a week and teaches kupuna about mele Hawaii and different crafts.

“A lot of our kupuna have Alzheimer’s or dementia, so getting to play music and mele Hawaii and bringing them back to their grassroots actually has stirred them up and created such life in them that the nurses have not seen,” said Mana.

The center was created by the non-profit, Hawaiian Music Perpetuation Society.

It was initially in Waikiki, but last January, they officially moved into the Lunalilo Estates.

“And we decided that we needed to display all the artifacts that were donated to us, plus what was in the possession of some of our membership,” said Board Member Jayme Peterson. “So, we start off with doing our honor to our ali’i and their significant contributions, and then we walk them through where we came from, our cultural artifacts, our crafts, and we tell stories.”

As you tour the center, there are dozens of books, with the majority of them not in print anymore.

In addition, over 800 vinyls from across the islands, and so many stories involving Hawaiian instruments and musicians.

“Steel guitar is actually an indigenous art form, started by Joseph Kekuku, who is from Kamehameha Schools,” said Mana. “What happens was he takes a metal boat, and he runs it across the strings of a guitar, likes the sound, creates a note system, then takes this system and he tells his friends, they go out throughout the world.”

“Nashville, Tennessee, gets a hold of it, adds pedals and electronics. It is now one of their number one staples. If you go to like the Grand Ole Opry, you go to Tennessee, Nashville, they honor the Hawaiians for doing this.”

There’s also Tau Moe, a Hawaiian Musical Group that performed around the world.

Mana said one of their stops included Germany during World War II.

“So, the boys play the steel guitar for Hitler. After that, Hitler loved it so much, he gives them the pass,” said Mana. “This pass allows them to go in and out of Germany without being stopped.”

“Our Hawaiian boys, all the way in Germany, they had actually taken out a bunch of Jews from the internment camp and saved them from the Holocaust.”

“So we would like people, our own, citizens of Hawaii, to come and learn about your heritage, as well as try to educate some of the visitors about what we Hawaiians are really about,” said Peterson.

Tours are about one hour, and tickets are $10.

You can purchase them by clicking here.

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