TAMPA, Fla. — With two streaks on the line, something had to give in tonight's NCAA Volleyball Championship semifinal.

It was the University of Hawai'i's season.
The third-ranked Rainbow Wahine's wondrous year ended when they fell to top-ranked Penn State, 23-25, 25-18, 25-15, 25-18, tonight at the St. Pete Times Forum.
The Nittany Lions (37-0) extended their NCAA-record winning streak to 101. Saturday they will go for an unprecedented third consecutive championship against second-ranked Texas. Penn State outblocked Hawai'i, 15-0.
PSU coach Russ Rose also became the third in his profession to win 1,000 matches, following UCLA's Andy Banachowski and Hawai'i's Dave Shoji, who accomplished it in October.
The Rainbows (32-3) will finally go home, their 28-match winning streak taking them only as far as their first final four since 2003. They played their final 10 matches on the road.
Penn State, Texas and Hawai'i have been ranked 1-2-3 since Oct. 12. The 'Bows were seeded 12th in the postseason, but beat up on two Big Ten teams at last week's regional to make a point, and a push for their fifth national title.
Hawai'i has now lost five straight final-four matches, dating back to 1996. But last night this was no fall from grace.
The Nittany Lions got 12 kills from All-American Megan Hodge, who has been MVP of the last two final fours. Penn State avoided the UH block the entire night.
Hawai'i was led by sophomores Kanani Danielson (14 kills) and Stephanie Ferrell (13. Senior Aneli Cubi-Otineru had 10 in her final match.
The Rainbow Wahine tied the opening set at 11 on two Ferrell kills and Amber Kaufman's second ace. Another Ferrell kill - she had six in the set - gave the Rainbows their first advantage.

They would not trail again, taking a set off PSU for the first time in nearly a month and only the fifth time this season.
It was tied for the 10th and final time at 19, on Ferrell's final kill. Dani Mafua served three more - burning both PSU timeouts in the process - to put UH ahead 22-19.
The teams traded points to 24-21. After his team tentatively lost two set points, Shoji called his first timeout. The 'Bows came back to win it on Danielson's third kill.
Hawai'i out-hit the Nittany Lions .289 to .231 in the set, holding them some 160 points below their average.
The 'Bows also avoided all but one block in that set, but the roof fell in in the second. With their passing just a bit off, PSU was waiting for the UH hitters and stuffed six balls.

Hawai'i fell into a 22-12 hole before making a charge. It scored five in a row on Kaufman's serve, with Ferrell getting three kills.
The rally ended there. Hodge's eighth kill went straight down. Her ninth went backwards, but the 'Bows were into the net on what would have been their first block.
Brittany Hewitt's fourth kill of the set erased the first set point, but Cubi-Otineru went for her jump serve and put it in the net to end it.

The third set was very similar. Penn State scored the first four points, Shoji taking time after the second when he didn't like what he saw.
The Rainbows never got within two again as the Lions starting launching balls straight down - on offense and with their block.
Penn State ripped to a 17-10 advantage in the final set. Hawai'i made one last run, again with Kaufman serving, cutting its deficit to 17-14, before the Lions finished it off.

TEXAS SWEEPS

In the early semifinal, second-ranked Texas ran away from 13th-ranked Minnesota at the end of each set to advance to its first national final since 1995.
The scores were 25-19, 25-20, 25-15. The Longhorns (29-1) scored 17 of the final 20 points.
Texas All-American Destinee Hooker had 17 kills and hit .342. Minnesota All-American Lauren Gibbemeyer was held to eight kills and .120 hitting.
Punahou graduate Sydney Yogi, a sophomore defensive specialist for Texas, had four digs and was serving during the Longhorns' final surge.
"I was struggling a little with my passing tonight," said Yogi, who had three digs and an ace. "So I thought if I can't pass well, I'll just have to serve well."