No. 5 Hawaii rebounded from today’s earlier loss to No. 1 UCLA when defeating No. 11 Stanford, 3-2 in the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Classic beach volleyball tournament at Queen’s Beach.

The Rainbow Wahine (2-2) finished third in the two-day season-opening event. The defending national champion Bruins (5-0) downed No. 4 Pepperdine for the title, 4-1.

The Waves (3-1) finished second with unranked Saint Mary’s (1-3) fourth and Stanford (0-4) fifth. The Gaels picked up their first victory when surprising the Cardinal 5-0) earlier today.

The Rainbow Wahine had clinched the this afternoon’s dual with the Cardinal 3-0 before losing in three sets at Flights 1 and 2. Stanford’s Charlie Ekstrom-Sunny Villapando rallied past Amy Ozee-Megan Martin at No. 1, 21-19, 8-21, 20-18, and Tori Ashkinos-Courtney Bowen came back against Emily Maglio-Hi’ilawe Huddleston at No. 2, 16-21, 21-12, 15-9..

Defending national champion UCLA won for the fourth consecutive against Hawaii dating back to last year. The Bruins clinched the dual 3-0 at Flight 1 when Nicole and Megan McNamara tuned back Ozee-Martin, 21-17, 13-21, 15-6.

The SandBows’ best shot at taking a point was at Flight 2 where Maglio-Huddleston had two match points in Set 2 but couldn’t finish. UCLA’s Sarah Sponcil and Lily Justine pulled out the 14-21, 22-20, 15-12 victory.

Flight 5 also went three sets with Megan Muret-Izzy Carey defeating Paige Dreeuws-Jenna Banz, 20-22, 21-17, 15-7.

In today’s first match, Pepperdine swept Saint Mary’s, 5-0.

Tournament awards went to Saint Mary’s Chandler Cowell, a King Kekaulike graduate (Aloha Spirit), Stanford’s Courtney Bowen (best blocker), Hawaii’s Julia Scoles (best attacker), Pepperdine’s Brook Bauer (best defender) and UCLA’s Sarah Sponcil (MVP).