Eighth-ranked Hawaii won one Saturday for all the frustrated Rainbow Wahine from years past, taking Long Beach State apart in the teams’ first conference match since 1995.

Back then, when Hawaii had lost to the 49ers in five consecutive postseasons, it could only dream of the depth of this 25-17, 25-16, 25-19 domination.

The Beach was beached before a loud and satisfied crowd of 6,349 at Stan Sheriff Center. It made up for low turnouts earlier in the week for an exhibition and sweep of UC Irvine — and this crowd clearly had a long memory.

"It feels good to win," said UH coach Dave Shoji, whose teams had gone 8-15 against the Beach since 1989. "We played one of our better matches of the year."

The Wahine (12-2) have now won their first five in this return to the Big West — and their last four against LBSU.

They were in trouble for only the first five points Saturday. From there, Hawaii silenced the 49ers (7-8, 2-2).

UH outhit (.370-.142), outblocked (12-5), outdug (40-37) and outaced (4-1) LBSU, whose only lead was 4-1 in the first.

Emily Hartong (12) was the only player with double-digit kills, but that was progress for Hawaii. It got 15 kills on .600-plus hitting from its first-year middles, with Kalei Adolpho going 9-for-10 and Jade Vorster adding six kills and eight blocks.

It was nothing like last week’s roller-coaster BWC openers in California, which have been the topic of conversation at every practice since. Saturday, once the Wahine got up, they never let down.

"We kept focused on what we needed to get better on in general and we stayed with it," Vorster said. "We didn’t let up and falter a little and have a lot of streaks. I thought we played pretty consistently."

The Beach scored four of the first points before the Wahine got a good enough pass to start their offense. When it finally happened, the good passes just kept coming to setter Mita Uiato, who was in on five blocks.

The precise passing allowed her to mix up the offense and the 49ers. Vorster jump-started a 15-6 run and Hawaii never had another anxious moment, with Adolpho practically perfect.

"The best thing about her tonight was no errors," Shoji said. "She has a tendency to make gross errors if she doesn’t get a perfect set and she’s come a long way."

UH had a .636 attack percentage in Set 2, with only one hitting error.

In Set 3, exasperated LBSU coach Brian Gimmillaro — still talking to his team an hour after the match — burned both timeouts in the first 14 points. The Wahine’s advantage was 10-4 and never dropped below four.

"Maybe we’re maturing as a team," Shoji said. "It was pretty matter-of-fact tonight. No one was really amped up and they just did their job. To me that’s a good sign where we don’t have to be amped up to play well. We can be calm and still play hard."

Long Beach, which lost its setter and all-conference middle before the season started, also had a good night from its middles, with Chisom Okpala 9-for-12 and Alma Serna adding eight kills and dropping in on three of the five blocks.

But that was it. Its outsides hit a combined .026, with libero Ali Longo and defensive specialist Emily Maeda cleaning up what the block left behind.

UC Irvine, swept by UH on Thursday, won in four at Cal State Northridge on Saturday. The Matadors are here for the next home match, Oct. 12. Hawaii plays at Cal Poly on Friday and UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.

The Wahine take a national-best 60-match regular-season conference winning streak into their second trip.