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Gauchos set University records and reach regional finals before NCAA tournament exit

While UC Santa Barbara baseball (40-20, 22-8 Big West) was unable to advance to the NCAA Division I Super Regionals, they demonstrated versatility, going 2-2 at the Austin Regionals tournament over th...
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Callan Emery: Life between sets

The sun begins to wake on the warm southwest coast of California with a slight offshore breeze as surfer Callan Emery pulls into a barrel. From ripping the waves in Dana Point to joining the UC Santa...
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Top-seeded UCSB Baseball falls to UC San Diego in tournament elimination

UC Santa Barbara Baseball (38-18,22-8 Big West) opened the Big West Championship as the top seed, cruising by Cal State Fullerton (24-32,15-15 Big West) 7-4 on Thursday, May 21. Pushed into the next r...
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UCSB’s Ekua Youri named 2026 Big West Women’s Tennis Player of the Year

Junior transfer women's tennis player Ekua Youri celebrated her first year at UC Santa Barbara, demonstrating dominance all season and earning the 2026 Big West Women's Tennis Player of the Year award...
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UCSB baseball sweeps UC Riverside in final series of the regular season, win Big West

The UC Santa Barbara baseball team notched three wins against the UC Riverside Highlanders over the weekend and finished the season having won 10 of their last 11 games. The Gauchos have officially ce...
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UCSB baseball routs Pepperdine in an eight-inning show

The UC Santa Barbara baseball team dominated the Pepperdine University Waves on Tuesday May 5, 13-3 and triggered the NCAA 10-run mercy rule to end the game an inning early.
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UCSB women’s rugby claim first ever national championship

For fourth-year economics and accounting major Amber Lau, a national championship title wasn’t originally on her 2026 bucket list. In its first appearance at a national championship tournament, UC S...
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UCSB softball falls in Big West Championship final despite memorable tournament run

The No. 3 seed UC Santa Barbara softball team’s 2026 Big West Championship run came to a close Saturday, May 9, falling 0-1 to No. 1 seed California State University, Fullerton in the title game. Th...
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UCSB baseball takes first two games of road series against Cal State Bakersfield

The UC Santa Barbara men’s baseball team picked up a close one against the California State University, Bakersfield Roadrunners on Saturday, May 2, 4-3 in the win. They avoided a late scare from CSU...
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Gauchos split doubleheader with Titans before dropping regular season finale

UC Santa Barbara women’s softball closed out the regular season on a bittersweet note, dominating California State University, Fullerton in the opener of a Friday doubleheader before dropping the ne...
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As Big West Champions, the Gauchos’ season concludes in hard-fought NCAA opener

UC Santa Barbara’s men’s tennis team wrapped up its season in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships at the Skip and Cindy Hogan Tennis Center in San Diego.
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Gauchos conclude 2026 season with Big West Titles and an NCAA appearance

UC Santa Barbara’s women's tennis closed its 2025-26 season at Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu, California, on Friday, May 1. Facing tough competition, No. 11 Pepperdine University, the Gaucho...
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Gauchos emerge victorious, bring home Big West championship title

After winning the Big West regular-season championship earlier this month, the UC Santa Barbara women’s tennis team headed into the Big West tournament as the No. 1 seed. UCSB beat both California S...
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Colin Beazizo’s steady rise within UCSB baseball

For UC Santa Barbara third-year sociology major and outfielder Colin Beazizo, baseball has been a constant in his life long before the intensity of college baseball. Beazizo was first introduced to th...
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Gauchos eliminated by Tritons in Big West Championship opener

During their final tournament of the season, No. 4 seed UC Santa Barbara men’s volleyball headed to UC Irvine’s Bren Events Center on Thursday, April 23, to face No. 5 seed UC San Diego in the fir...
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