HONOLULU - In its last chance to avoid a winless debut season in the Mountain West Conference, the University of Hawaii football team came through.
Joey Iosefa ran for a touchdown and caught a scoring pass as UH beat Nevada-Las Vegas 48-10 on Saturday at Aloha Stadium.
The Warriors (2-10, 1-7 Mountain West) snapped an eight-game losing streak, the second-longest in school history.
The win was the first for UH over a Bowl Subdivision team since Norm Chow took over as coach before the season.
"That's what a team is all about," Chow said. "All three phases need to be good. Our defense played well, the offense put some points up and our (special teams) played well."
The Rebels (2-11, 2-6) dropped their third straight game.
Fact Box
MWC STANDINGS
| Conference | Overall | |||||||
| Fresno St. | 7 | 1 | 326 | 174 | 9 | 3 | 483 | 267 |
| S. Diego St. | 7 | 1 | 284 | 187 | 9 | 3 | 421 | 294 |
| Boise St. | 6 | 1 | 239 | 109 | 9 | 2 | 338 | 158 |
| Air Force | 5 | 3 | 226 | 223 | 6 | 6 | 342 | 344 |
| Nevada | 4 | 3 | 282 | 252 | 7 | 4 | 423 | 363 |
| Colorado St. | 3 | 5 | 186 | 253 | 4 | 8 | 254 | 363 |
| Wyoming | 3 | 5 | 212 | 269 | 4 | 8 | 322 | 401 |
| UNLV | 2 | 6 | 174 | 249 | 2 | 11 | 286 | 424 |
| New Mexico | 1 | 7 | 193 | 250 | 4 | 9 | 335 | 393 |
| Hawaii | 1 | 7 | 167 | 323 | 2 | 9 | 231 | 421 |
Saturday's Results
Hawaii 46, UNLV 10
Fresno State 48, Air Force 15
San Diego St. 42, Wyoming 28
Colorado St. 24, New Mexico 20
Saturday, Dec. 1 (HST)
Boise St. at Nevada, 10:30 a.m.
S. Alabama at Hawaii, 6 p.m.
"Pretty disappointed to come over here and get drilled like that," said UNLV coach Bobby Hauck.
The Warriors' Sean Schroeder threw for 201 yards without an interception. Iosefa carried 13 times for 56 yards and caught three passes for 51 yards. He scored on a 25-yard run in the first quarter and caught a 7-yard scoring pass from Schroeder in the second quarter.
Sterling Jackson and Will Gregory had a rushing touchdown each and Tyler Hadden made field goals of 23 and 26 yards for UH, which also got a 38-yard interception return for a touchdown from John Hardy-Tuliau and a 69-yard punt return for another score from Scott Harding.
Harding also caught three passes for 75 yards for Hawaii, which led 31-0 at halftime.
The Warriors' Alex Dunnachie had a career long 73-yard punt in the second quarter. His previous long was 69 yards at Air Force last week.
The Rebels scored their lone touchdown on a 5-yard pass from Nick Sherry to Taylor Spencer.
UNLV ...... 0 ....... 0 ..... 0 ..... 10-10
Hawaii ..... 7 ..... 24 ..... 3 ..... 14-48
First Quarter
Haw-Iosefa 25 run (Hadden kick), 10:14.
Second Quarter
Haw-S.Jackson 1 run (Hadden kick), 11:56.
Haw-Iosefa 7 pass from Schroeder (Hadden kick), 5:23.
Haw-Hardy-Tuliau 38 interception return (Hadden kick), 1:50.
Haw-FG Hadden 23, :00.
Third Quarter
Haw-FG Hadden 26, 6:16.
Fourth Quarter
Haw-Harding 69 punt return (Hadden kick), 12:04.
UNLV-FG Kohorst 43, 9:20.
UNLV-Spencer 5 pass from Sherry (Kohorst kick), 3:26.
Haw-Gregory 12 run (Hadden kick), 1:31.
A-28,359.
...................................... UNLV ......... Haw
First downs ........................ 11 ............ 18
Rushes-yards .............. 24-37 ..... 49-139
Passing .......................... 166 ........... 201
Comp-Att-Int ............ 17-43-3 ..... 13-27-0
Return Yards .................... 16 ........... 150
Punts-Avg. ................. 9-30.8 ....... 4-51.8
Fumbles-Lost .................. 0-0 ............ 0-0
Penalties-Yards ............. 8-67 .......... 4-40
Time of Possession ..... 25:36 ........ 34:24
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING-UNLV, Cornett 12-32, Randle 8-18, Sherry 4-(minus 13). Hawaii, Gregory 9-59, Iosefa 13-56, S.Jackson 17-42, Edwards 2-6, Dunnachie 1-(minus 3), Team 2-(minus 3), Schroeder 5-(minus 18).
PASSING-UNLV, Sherry 17-43-3-166. Hawaii, Schroeder 13-24-0-201, Higgins 0-3-0-0.
RECEIVING-UNLV, D.Davis 4-40, Spencer 3-41, A.Williams 3-41, Herring 2-11, Mays 2-8, Randle 1-18, Phillips 1-5, Barnhill 1-2. Hawaii, Harding 3-75, Iosefa 3-51, Stutzmann 3-38, Gant 1-12, Ostrowski 1-11, Hall 1-10, Evans 1-4.
