The University of Hawaii volleyball team’s powerball number is 2016.

The seventh-ranked Rainbow Warriors overwhelmed No. 8 Lewis in three sets — 25-16, 25-23, 25-12 — to win the season-opening Outrigger Resorts Invitational in the Stan Sheriff Center.

The Warriors did not lose a set in winning all three matches. UH coach Charlie Wade used only four of a possible 18 timeouts in the tournament. The Warriors won their first Outrigger title since 2010.

“It’s been a long time coming,” UH setter Jennings Franciskovic said. “We played really great. The passing was spot-on all night. We were rarely out of system. We were able to do whatever we wanted. That’s why we played so well.”

Lewis, which played in the NCAA title match last year, is built inside-out. Starting middles Bobby Walsh and Jacob Schmiegelt combined for 12 of the Flyers’ 30 kills. But the Warriors’ disruptive serves kept Lewis out of system, and while Walsh and Schmiegelt were effective, they were set only 22 times.

“They wanted to go to the middle, but there weren’t enough opportunities for them,” Wade said. “Their middles hit for high numbers, but they didn’t get the ball enough times.”

In most rotations, the servers’ power order usually is this: opposite, outside hitters and then middles. But UH’s starting middles — Iain McKellar and Hendrik Mol — are converted opposites. That translates to firepower at every serving turn.

“When you can line up your six best servers, you’re going to put pressure on (the receiving team),” Wade said. “And when they get it rolling, you can take a really good (opponent) and neutralize what they’re doing.”

The Warriors amassed eight aces, with McKellar and left-side hitter Siki Zarkovic hammering three apiece. The Warriors scored on eight of McKellar’s 14 serves.

“It just tails with my natural swing,” McKellar said of his left-handed, quick-breaking serve. “I feel I’d be a good baseball pitcher. Maybe I should try out for the baseball team.”

McKellar said he spent the winter break working on his serves. He said he served between 50 and 80 times each session in Gym I.

Outside hitter Kupono Fey also served eight points, including two aces. He served six points in a surge that pushed the Warriors’ lead to 23-10 in the third set.

“We kind of executed the game plan,” Fey said.

Sunday’s plan, like the two previous schemes, revolved around freshman Stijn van Tilburg, who powered 15 kills, hit .444 and was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

In the opening set, Franciskovic tried to feed the middle. In the second set, Franciskovic expanded his distributions to the backcourt. Van Tilburg hammered five of his eight second-set kills from the back right known as the D area. Franciskovic and van Tilburg had difficulty with the D-set connection in fall training. But they clicked during this tournament.

“I told Jennings, ‘If you keep giving me that set, I’ll keep hitting it,’” van Tilburg said.

In the second set, Wade noted, van Tilburg was “hitting from the back row, and there are two, three blockers up, and they’re not touching it. I don’t know where it was going — by them, around them, through them — but it was impressive.”

With Lewis shifting its block, that opened the middle and the left side.

Spreading the offense, Wade said, “keeps everyone engaged. It’s easy to say, ‘Let’s watch Stijn.’ If you can keep everyone involved, it completes us.”

Van Tilburg also managed three block assists after earning only one against Harvard on Friday night. Van Tilburg, who was raised in the Netherlands and speaks three languages, yelled an indecipherable phrase after his first block on Sunday night.

“I think it was part pidgin, part Dutch,” Wade said, smiling.

Van Tilburg said: “Coach got a little upset with me because I’m so tall and I should get more blocks. I was eager to get a block today, maybe a little too eager.”

No. 7 Hawaii def. No. 8 Lewis 25-16, 25-23, 25-12

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 — Lewis 1 (Weiskircher). Hawaii 8 (McKellar 3, Zarkovic 3, Fey 2). Service errors — Lewis 9 (Perinar 2, Schmiegelt 2, Fifer, Lilly, Moses, Simmons, Weiskircher). Hawaii 9 (Mol 3, Franciskovic 2, Zarkovic 2, Fey, McKellar). Assists — Lewis 27 (Fifer 15, Yoshimoto 9, McCall, Walenga, Walsh). Hawaii 38 (Franciskovic 32, Kanetake 4, Fey 2). T — 1:35. Officials — Dan Hironaka, Ernest Ho. A — NA.