The Rainbow Wahine soccer team held onto its slim lead for as long as possible against third-ranked Stanford.

The Cardinal kept pressing and scored twice in a six-minute span late in the second half to rally for a 2-1 win over Hawaii at the Outrigger Resorts Soccer Classic at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium on Friday night.

“We did our job, we got all the way to the last 15 or 16 minutes and unfortunate PK, but they had the rhythm and the momentum going, and it happens,” said Hawaii coach Michele Nagamine. “I’m really, really proud of the kids and the way they rallied. We had some very gutsy performances out there tonight and that’s courage and heart.”

Hawaii (0-1) is 2-26-2 against ranked teams and last beat a ranked opponent in 2008 with a 2-1 overtime win over No. 23 UC Santa Barbara. Hawaii faces No. 18 California (0-1) on Sunday at 5 p.m. No. 19 BYU beat Cal 2-0 in Friday’s other tournament game. Stanford (1-0) faces BYU (1-0) in Monday’s finale.

Sonest Furtado scored 31 seconds into the game to give Hawaii a 1-0 lead. The Rainbow Wahine carried the lead late into the match as they fended off one Stanford shot after another. The Cardinal outshot the Rainbow Wahine 23 to four.

“That set the tone for us — we scored in the first 30 seconds, everyone was pretty hyped,” Furtado said. “I felt everyone’s intensity level was high and that’s why we were leading.”

Stanford tied it at 1 in the 73rd minute. Andi Sullivan’s penalty shot was stopped by Hawaii goalkeeper Monk Berger, but Sullivan collected the ricochet and scored into a wide-open goal. Stanford scored the game-winner when Alana Cook’s shot from the top of the box went over the Rainbow Wahine and into the goal in the 79th minute.

“Andi is a fantastic player; she’s probably really disappointed she missed the initial PK,” Stanford coach Paul said. “But the composure finishing the rebound was fantastic.”

Berger finished with seven saves, including three major stops in the opening minutes of the second half when Stanford pressed forward and Hawaii kept just one player in the backfield.

Less than a minute before Cook’s game-winner, Berger stopped a point-blank shot by Mariah Lee.

“Her performance tonight did not surprise me,” Nagamine said. “I was thrilled she had a performance like she did. She worked her butt off this summer. She had a keeper trainer in Las Vegas. She was playing every day, training three, four hours a day. This was not an accident. This is the Monk Berger we recruited. This is the Monk Berger we know.”

Furtado took control of a ball misplayed by Stanford and shot into an open goal. The Waianae High graduate took both of Hawaii’s shots on goal.

“The ball went across the goalie and I pressed it hard,” Furtado said. “As soon as the defender made a bad pass, I knew it was my chance. I saw the goalie coming and I knew I had to poke it right past her.”

Tiana Fujimoto and Justine Olotoa, both of whom were medical redshirts last year, started for Hawaii. Newcomers Elise Wassner, a junior college transfer, and Sarah Lau, a freshman out of Kamehameha, also started for the Rainbow Wahine. Freshman Raisa Strom-Okimoto, who missed her senior year at Aiea High School with an ACL injury, was the first reserve off the bench.

“Anytime you start a game as a freshman, you got a little bit of jitters and don’t know what to expect, and then you start your soccer career against the No. 3 team in the country,” Nagamine said of Lau. “It could’ve been a very overwhelming situation for her, but I thought she handled it like a champ and she was very resilient tonight."