Welcome to the videogame age of men’s collegiate volleyball. A la the FIVB, Hawaii introduced the video replay challenge process during the 21st Outrigger Resorts Invitational Thursday at the Stan Sheriff Center.

No. 14 Ohio State won the inaugural challenge early in Set 1 but the 10th-ranked Rainbow Warriors won the real-time battle. Led by junior Siki Zarkovic’s 20 kills and 12 from senior Brook Sedore, Hawaii opened its own tournament with a 25-19, 25-22, 17-25, 25-23 victory in 2 hours and 9 minutes.

The Rainbow Warriors (2-0, 1-0 ORI) face No. 3 Penn State (0-1, 0-1) in Friday’s second match. Ohio State (3-1, 0-1) looks to rebound from its first loss against UC Irvine (1-1, 1-0) at 4 p.m.

"I thought we were really good early, medium down the stretch," Hawaii coach Charlie Wade said. "We were so good for almost five sets in a row (going back to Saturday’s sweep of Stevens). Then we lost a little focus and Ohio State threw some different guys at us that we didn’t have a lot of information on.

"We’ll keep working tomorrow."

Hawaii faces Penn State "and they and Irvine are great serving teams," added Zarkovic. "I thought our passing was great early and (Kanetake) played very good and made plays."

In Thursday’s opener, Tamir Hershko and Zack La Cavera each had 17 kills as UC Irvine responded from being swept at home Monday by No. 9 Lewis by grinding out a 25-17, 25-18, 18-25, 22-25, 15-7 win over No. 3 Penn State. Hershko added five of the team’s nine aces and La Cavera was in on seven stuffs as the Anteaters outblocked the Nittany Lions 13-7.

Hawaii never used a replay challenge — each coach is allowed two per set — but did need to hit the reset button after dropping Set 3 and looking bad in doing so.

The Warriors took control at 14-7 and pulled ahead 18-14 and 20-16. The Buckeyes closed to 21-18 and 24-23, with Zarkovic blocked on Hawaii’s third match-point attempt.

Zarkovic ended it on his 37th swing, Sedore had three of the team’s six aces and was in on five of the blocks.

Michael Henchy led the Buckeyes with 13 kills and four of the team’s aces.

Ohio State coach Pete Hanson used the video challenge when it appeared that a kill by Dustan Neary had gone wide. The replay showed that the ball had landed in and, instead of Hawaii leading 3-1, it tied it at 2-2.

UH senior middle Taylor Averill was held to 4 kills and hit negative .125, often seeing a double and triple block. Averill had 13 kills with no errors in Saturday’s sweep of Stevens.

UC Irvine 3, Penn State 2

The Nittany Lions needed 43 hours to get to Honolulu then couldn’t hold on for the last 20 minutes in their 2-hour match against the Anteaters.

"I think the jet lag may have had a little to do with it, but give credit to Irvine, they played well at the end when we didn’t," Penn State coach Mark Pavlik said. "What I’m interested in seeing is how we respond (Friday) when playing Hawaii, when it’s 1 a.m. back home."

Aaron Russell had 19 kills and Nick Goodell 10 for Penn State (0-1, 0-1).

Key — s: games; k: kills; e: hitting errors; att: attempts; pct: hitting percentage; d: digs; bs: block solo; ba: block assists; pts: points (kills plus blocks plus aces). Service Aces — Ohio State 8 (Henchy 4, Pohlman, Szerszen, Edwards, Johnson). Hawaii 6 (Sedore 3, Zarkovic 2, Averill). Service errors — Ohio State 17 (Herron 4, Blough 2, Henchy 2, Szerszen 2, Johnson 2, Edwards 2, Neary, Franceschi, Pohlman). Hawaii 19 (Zarkovic 5, Fey 4, Sedore 3, Averill 3, Holt 2, Hartley 2). Assists — Ohio State 38 (Blough 34, Domecus 3, Edwards). Hawaii 42 (Franciskovic 37, Kanetake 3, Fey, Jones). T — 2:09. A — NA. Referees — Dickson Chun, Ernie Ho, Leilyn Kauihou.