Hawaii, Cal players brawl as Rainbow Warriors pull off incredible comeback victory

The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors’ comeback triumph successful the Hawaii Bowl implicit the California Golden Bears connected Wednesday nighttime was marred by a combat adjacent the extremity of the game.

Golden Bears backmost Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele tried to reply Hawaii’s go-ahead people with 1 2nd near successful the game. He fired a walk to wide receiver Trond Grizzell, who tried to transportation the shot backmost to a teammate but mislaid it. Jacob De Jesus picked up the escaped shot and tried to lateral the shot to different teammate but Hawaii defender Virdel Edwards II recovered the bouncing shot to extremity the game.

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California Golden Bears Hawaii and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors players brawl astatine the extremity of the Hawaii Bowl astatine the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex connected Dec. 24, 2025 (Marco Garcia/Imagn Images)

A combat breaks retired betwixt the California Golden Bears Hawaii and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors players astatine the extremity of the Hawaii Bowl astatine the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex connected Dec. 24, 2025. (Marco Garcia/Imagn Images)

Behind the recovery, California’s QuaRon Adams and Hawaii’s Brandon White began to premix it up. A fracas began arsenic Hawaii players and coaches rushed to the tract to observe the win. It took a fewer minutes for the brouhaha to end.

Hawaii won the game, 35-31, coming backmost from a 21-point deficit.

Backup backmost Luke Weaver threw a 22-yard touchdown walk to Nick Cenacle with 10 seconds near to instrumentality the lead. He came into the crippled aft Micah Alejado took a hard deed connected the erstwhile play.

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Alejado was 32-of-46 with 274 yards and 3 touchdowns. Hawaii wide receiver Pofele Ashlock had 14 catches for 123 yards for 2 touchdowns. The Rainbow Warriors scored 22 points successful the 4th quarter.

"These boys conscionable support continuing to combat done adversity and I emotion them for that. They larn the hard way, but they larn however to bash it and that’s what’s important," Chang said.

Hawaii caput manager Timmy Chang successful the archetypal fractional during an NCAA shot crippled against Arizona connected Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, successful Tucson, Arizona. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, file)

Cal’s Sagapolutele was 28-of-39 with 343 passing yards, a touchdown walk to De Jesus and a rushing touchdown. Kendrick Raphael and Anthony League each had rushing touchdowns.

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Hawaii finishes the play 9-4 and Cal dropped to 7-6.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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