The road to redemption continues for No. 2 Hawaii. The Rainbow Warriors have been on a payback mission this volleyball season, avenging the losses of a year ago that played a part in not receiving an NCAA at-large bid.

Hawaii is halfway through getting back at Cal State Northridge, which swept the Warriors twice on the Blacktop at the Matadome last March. Hawaii did it with efficiency — hitting .609 over the 100 minutes Friday night at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Led by junior opposite Rado Parapunov’s 12 kills and a stifling block that continues to lead the country, Hawaii shut down CSUN 25-23, 25-16, 25-17. A crowd of 3,226 watched the Warriors run their NCAA-record sets-won streak to 48 with their 16th sweep.

Hawaii (16-0, 3-0 Big West) and CSUN (10-9, 0-3) meet again at 7 tonight. Redemption won’t be complete until UH defeats the Matadors again, senior hitter Stijn van Tilburg said.

“Not yet,” said van Tilburg, whose nine kills Friday night put him at No. 9 on the program’s all-time kills list at 1,207. “Tomorrow, we want to serve better and fix the tiny mistakes.

“The first set was a little rough, but after that we executed the scouting report well.”

The Warriors had as many aces (five) as hitting errors. It also matched the number of blocks by junior Patrick Gasman, who leads the country in stuffs; he was in on five of the team’s nine.

“They were a little chirpy, so it was nice to throw it back in their faces,” said Gasman, who was 7-for-7 on kill attempts, including the match-ender. “Do it again tomorrow … not the service errors (14) but the winning.”

Gasman did not have a swing in Set 1.

“That was more strategy,” he said. “Their middles were fronting me the whole time, which left our pins (outside hitters) wide open.”

It resulted in van Tilburg having seven kills, Parapunov four and junior hitter Colton Cowell three in the opening set. What stalled the Warriors’ momentum was five service errors that had them trailing 15-12.

They had none the rest of the way, taking their first lead since 3-2 when going ahead at 20-19. Hawaii’s third block gave the Warriors the first of what would be three set points at 24-21; CSUN’s fourth service error ended it.

Hawaii took control in Set 2 at 17-10 behind van Tilburg’s 5-0 serving stint, the run highlighted by consecutive solo blocks, first from Cowell and then Parapunov. Particularly entertaining was the 6-foot-2 Cowell’s stuff of the Matadors’ 6-7 Ksawery Tomsia.

“We talked a lot about one-on-one blocking,” Warriors coach Charlie Wade said. “We got a couple. That one by Colton was a nice move.”

Another key was not allowing Matadors senior hitter Dimitar Kalchev to go off from the service line. The CSUN career leader in aces had seven in last year’s two wins over Hawaii; he had none on Friday.

Kalchev led the Matadors with 12 kills, seven coming in Set 1.

Gasman’s match-ender came on a step-out move that senior middle Dalton Solbrig has been running successfully. Gasman and setter Joe Worsley worked on it briefly this week and “it was kind of a joke,” Gasman said. “Tonight (at 24-16) Joe says, “OK, right now. Let’s call it ‘uncle.’”

It was Worsley’s 35th assist.

“We came off the first set, we all talked about it, that was our toughest set of the year, to be honest,” said Worsley, who added two aces and had five of the team’s 21 digs. “I was a little frustrated, I didn’t like our intensity coming out of the gates. We had talked about it going in, we need to make sure we come out (hard), because CSUN’s a team that always thrives off the energy.”