Offense proved fleeting once again for the Hawaii women’s basketball team.

A bid for a fourth straight Rainbow Wahine road victory never had a serious chance Saturday, as UH shot 25.5 percent in a 56-40 loss to Long Beach State at the Walter Pyramid.

UH (9-13, 5-4 Big West) settled for a split of its road trip after winning 70-68 at UC Irvine on Thursday.

“You have to buy into your scouting report,” UH coach Laura Beeman said in a postgame phone interview. “You have to buy into what is going to make you successful. And there are adjustments that are going to have to be made. And I don’t feel like we prepared ourselves to play.”

LBSU (7-15, 4-5) got off to a 9-1 start and never trailed. The 49ers hit 70 percent of their 3s in the first half and led 28-16 at halftime. The Beach won the third quarter by nine and that was that.

Amy Atwell, the hero off the bench who scored 19 Thursday, went scoreless in nine minutes.

“You have to be locked in mentally to win on the road, and we just didn’t do what we needed to do,” Beeman said. “I had a little bit of a lighter practice yesterday just to save some legs, and maybe that’s not what we needed, so I have to take responsibility for maybe not doing everything I needed to do yesterday and today to get them ready to go. I need to take a look at that, obviously.”

There was one real bright spot for the Wahine. Freshman Myrrah Joseph enjoyed her best game of the season — 15 points on 6-for-9 shooting with nine rebounds. No other Rainbow Wahine player scored more than eight.

“I thought she played incredibly, incredibly well,” Beeman said. “Hopefully this is a game that will just catapult her into more minutes and confidence so we can get her on the court more, because she did just a great job, both on the boards and finishing tonight for us.”

Naomi Hunt led LBSU with 20 points and eight rebounds.