Out of the raucous times at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium over the past four years, one of the quieter moments sticks in Jazmine Zamora’s memory.

Zamora had homered in a previous at-bat and was in the on-deck circle when a lull in the crowd allowed a small voice to catch her attention.

"I hear a little girl go ‘Jazzy!’, and I turned around, and she’s like, ‘Do it again,’ " Zamora recalled. "And she’s not taller than the fence. And I just looked at her and right then, I was like, ‘This is why I play softball.’ For those little girls who look up to us."

Zamora and three other Rainbow Wahine seniors will play their final series in front of the RWSS fans — some of them perhaps aspiring players — as UH concludes its home schedule this week.

The Rainbow Wahine (20-24, 5-10 Big West) open the conference series against Cal State Northridge (29-22, 6-9) with a 6 p.m. game Friday at RWSS. UH’s senior class of Zamora, Jori Jasper, Sharla Kliebenstein and Kaile Nakao will be honored following Saturday’s 2 p.m. doubleheader.

"It’s crazy that it’s coming to an end and it’s gone by really fast, but it’s something I’ll remember forever and it’ll be a part of me," Nakao said.

"Every year at the beginning of the season (UH coach Bob Coolen) always tells us, ‘Don’t blink.’ "

The seniors contributed to conference titles in two leagues as the Rainbow Wahine left the Western Athletic Conference with a championship in 2012 and claimed the Big West crown last year. After consecutive NCAA Regional appearances, this season will end next week when UH closes the regular season at UC Davis.

This season’s on-field fortunes fell short of the team’s aspirations, but it will be the relationships nurtured over the past four years that will endure.

"Those are like true sisters to me," Kliebenstein said. "I’ve had some rough times in my four years here — I’ve just gone through personal issues and they have always been there for me with everything. I’m happy they’re the group of girls I’m ending my career with."

Kliebenstein and Nakao, both from California, probably made the first connection within this year’s class. Both committed to UH as high school juniors, and Nakao remembers being startled by their first encounter as their club teams were warming up before a summer tournament.

"Sharla came up to me and said, ‘Oh, you’re going to Hawaii,’ and I didn’t know who she was and was like ‘How does she know that?’ " Nakao said.

Noting Nakao’s initial recoil after running up to her, Kliebenstein let her know she was also headed to Manoa.

"I was like, ‘I’m not weird, I’m going there too,’ " said Kliebenstein, who started all 55 games behind the plate her freshman year and has 183 career starts behind the plate and in the outfield.

More formal introductions came once they arrived on campus as freshmen in the fall of 2010, while Jasper had already been in the program for a year as a redshirt. Five years after walking on with the team, Jasper is now the last link to UH’s Women’s College World Series team and wears her bracelet commemorating that season daily.

"It’s amazing. I have to thank Coach Bob and Coach Dee (Wisneski) and (assistant Kaulana Gould) for giving me the opportunity to play for five years," said Jasper, who starts law school in the fall.

"There have been highs, there have been lows, but I’ve definitely come out of it stronger and a more competitive individual, and I’m excited to see what’s next."

Zamora said Jasper was among her first friends on the team and that she valued her advice while working toward a business degree that she’ll complete this semester.

Zamora has worked through tough physical challenges as well. After two years as a reserve, she was in contention for a starting job in the fall of 2012 when injuries suffered in a moped accident over Thanksgiving weekend sidelined her into the spring.

"I was mad at the world that somebody took away my opportunity. I had to work my way up," Zamora said.

That opportunity arrived during UH’s trip to Las Vegas last season and she ended the year as UH’s leading hitter at .337. Then three games into this season, a jarring collision with a UCLA baserunner left her with a concussion that derailed her early momentum.

Her production gradually picked up and she’s hitting .309 overall and .328 in Big West play with six games left to share the field with the senior class.

"We’ve all been there for one another for things off the field that I think has strengthened our friendship," Zamora said. "Regardless of our differences, our different personalities, we came from the same place. We started together and we’re finishing together. I’ll miss them a lot."

Senior weekend

The Rainbow Wahine will hold an autograph session after Friday’s game. The first 100 fans after the game will receive a team photo. … Saturday’s doubleheader will also be Military Appreciation Day and UH will wear camouflage jerseys with patches representing military units from around the state. A color guard from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and the COMPACFLT band will take part in pregame ceremonies. … Eight hundred team pictures will be distributed Saturday, with the senior day ceremony to follow the finale.

UH SOFTBALL SENIORS

2 KAILE NAKAO
» Hometown: Santa Monica, Calif.
» Position: Third base
» Major: Kinesiology, on track to graduate in the fall
» Glove work: Nakao has played three infield positions in her career and started 51 games at third base the past two seasons. She’s planning to attend graduate school in California after completing her degree work in the fall.

3 SHARLA KLIEBENSTEIN
» Hometown: Oceanside, Calif.
» Position: Catcher/outfield
» Major: Sociology, graduates this semester
» Family time: Kliebenstein’s family will watch her play in Hawaii for the first time this weekend. The group includes her younger sister, Tara, a Cal State Northridge freshman. Tara is redshirting this season due to a knee injury.

12 JORI JASPER
» Hometown: Lihue
» Position: First base
» Major: Graduated as a triple major in entrepreneurship, marketing and international business. Finishing master’s degree in sociology.
» Just the beginning: Jasper was accepted to the William S. Richardson School of Law for the fall. She will serve as the Big West’s representative on the national Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for another year.

28 JAZMINE ZAMORA
» Hometown: Temecula, Calif.
» Position: Second base
» Major: Business/marketing, graduates this semester
» Moving on: Zamora has long planned to use her marketing degree in a sports-related field. She was an academic all-conference selection the past two years.