It will be a reunion of sorts tomorrow when the University of Hawai'i and Hawai'i Pacific University women's soccer squads meet.

HPU head coach Michele Nagamine played for UH head coach Pinsoom Tenzing. Nagamine and UH assistant coach Kathy Carey were teammates on that team.

Former Rainbow Wahine Joelle Sugai, an all-WAC honoree, is an assistant coach and Missy Moore is a volunteer coach with the Sea Warriors.

Between the two teams, a combined 33 players from Hawai'i are listed on the rosters: 17 for UH and 16 for HPU; there is an abundance of crossover between high school and club teammates and rivals between the two squads.

"This is just a snapshot of what Hawai'i talent is all about," HPU's Nagamine said. "Especially for the little kids (watching), it's such a nice thing to see how far Hawai'i soccer has come, where we can almost field entire college teams with kids from Hawai'i. That to me is amazing."

Hawai'i and Hawai'i Pacific play tomorrow in the Outrigger Hotels "Hawai'i College Soccer Showcase" at the Waipi'o Peninsula Soccer Stadium at 5 p.m.

Tenzing views the match-up with Hawai'i Pacific "as sisters, and us being a little older and wiser."

It is a one-sided sibling rivalry, with the Rainbow Wahine taking an 8-0 advantage into tomorrow's game.

The Sea Warriors are filling in for some teams that dropped out of playing Hawai'i.

"A rash of teams pull out, and it's a singular problem for us, because when teams pull out the year of the contest, it's almost impossible to get a replacement; the expenditure is too much," Tenzing said. "We're really, really grateful, because it was impossible for us to get another team to come down. They are making a tremendous sacrifice because they are playing a host of other games before us."

The Rainbow Wahine are looking for their first win after tying No. 25 Brigham Young, 0-0, and losing to No. 2 Stanford, 6-2, last weekend.

They will use tomorrow's game and the next two weeks to focus on the intangibles, including playing with a sense of urgency.

"My practice is set for the next two weeks dealing with what I saw after the Stanford game," Tenzing said. "We did not compete as well as we could have. I need to know why we did it. It wasn't entirely because the team was so much better than us.

"We will work on tactical shortcomings and the technical shortcomings, because we missed a lot of easy passes. That might have been because we were mentally intimidated."

The Sea Warriors played their first game this week, beating Westminster College, 2-0, Thursday and beat Upper Iowa University, 2-0, yesterday.

"We're going to have a ton of freshmen out there," said Nagamine, who is in her second season as the HPU head coach, and is also the coach of the Kamehameha girls varsity soccer team and the technical director of Leahi Soccer Club.

"(The Rainbow Wahine) had a pretty intense preseason. It's not something we can do at this point in our program. They are an established program; we're changing the face of our program. And I think we're going to surprise a lot of people."

Tenzing is expecting a competitive game.

"Always, always, a soccer game is a soccer game," he said. "The ball is not discriminating, if you don't come to play you can get beaten by anybody."