{"id":226164,"date":"2025-11-30T09:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=226164"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:28:51","slug":"football-senior-night-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/30\/football-senior-night-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors reclaim Paniolo Trophy with senior night win over Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa football team<\/a> sent its 26 seniors out with a bang, reclaiming the Paniolo Trophy as the Rainbow Warriors (8-4, 5-3 Mountain West) defeated Wyoming (4-8, 2-6 MW<\/abbr>) 27-7 in the regular season finale November 29, at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex.<\/p>\n

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The Warrior defense pitched a shutout, with the only Wyoming points coming on an early pick-six. The UH<\/abbr> Mānoa pass rush got home for three sacks, with solo sacks by Jalen Smith and Noah Wily and half sacks for Jackie Johnson III and De’Jon Benton. Senior Jaheim Wilson-Jones picked off Wyoming quarterback Mason Drube for his first career interception in his final regular-season home game.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the offense recovered quickly from the early miscue and scored 27 unanswered points to clinch the victory. Micah Alejado threw for 289 yards on 17-of-24 passing with two touchdowns. Alejado broke head coach Timmy Chang’s UH<\/abbr> freshman single-season passing touchdowns record with his second TD pass of the game, giving him 21 on the season.<\/p>\n

Jackson Harris continued his strong run of games, with his seventh 100+ yard receiving game in the past eight games. He caught four passes for a season-high 153 yards and a score. Pofele Ashlock added 71 yards on four catches.<\/p>\n

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Cam Barfield rushed for a career-high 77 yards on 15 carries, including a career-high 41-yard touchdown run. Barfield’s 77 rushing yards is the second most by a UH<\/abbr> rusher in a single game this season.<\/p>\n

Kansei Matsuzawa made his first two field goals of the game, a pair of 47-yarders, to tie an FBS<\/abbr> record of 25 consecutive made field goals to start a season.<\/p>\n

With the regular season now over, the Rainbow Warriors will now wait for their bowl game assignment, which is expected to be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n

“Really proud of the guys,” Chang said. “We\u2019ve come off a couple of five-win seasons, especially the last year—three of those losses were by less than two points. The difference was these guys buying in and finding a way to close that gap.”<\/p>\n

Read more on the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rainbow Warriors finished the 2025 regular season with an 8-4 record overall, and 5-3 in conference play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":226165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,83,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-226164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t