Sports

Snow Day for Alpine Team

With over 100 members on the team and over 100 more who would like to join, the alpine racing team is one of the most popular club sports at UCSB.
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Sports Feature Photo: Softball Media Game

Junior center fielder Leslie Simien slides into second base safely for the UCSB softball team at Campus Diamond on Wednesday. The Gauchos humbled the media team with two first inning runs, shellacking...
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Women’s Softball: UCSB Mixes Up Potent Solution

After taking one giant leap last year, the UCSB softball team will attempt to take another step in the right direction on the backs of a proven workhorse, a freshman phenom and a versatile veteran.
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Men’s Baseball: Gaucho Hurlers Ready to Throw Heat

In 2002, the UCSB baseball team struggled to a 22-33 record. The Gauchos' pitching staff, statistically near the bottom of the Big West last season, will welcome several solid veterans and a much-need...
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Men’s and Women’s Swimming: Santa Barbara Drowns in Pacific

The Gaucho women lost 173-89 while the men suffered a 169-94 defeat. Although the Tigers took this meet, the last word might be up for grabs. Santa Barbara could still face UOP again in the Big West C...
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They’re Gr-r-r-eat! UCSB Rips Tigers

Santa Barbara won the game on the boards, dominating the glass 37-21 while countering every UOP attack with two or more counter punches until the Tigers had X's where their eyes should have been and l...
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Pacific Tweaks Santa Barbara’s Win Streak

The University of the Pacific snapped the #21 UCSB women's basketball team's string of 31 straight victories over opponents from the Big West on Saturday night by handing the Gauchos a devastating 74-...
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Gauchos Settle for Split on Road

It took a trip to the Midwest to do it, but the UCSB men's volleyball team snapped its three-match losing skid this weekend, defeating Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne on Friday night 3-2 before faltering 3-...
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Women’s Tennis: SB Netters Zig Then Zag

The UCSB women's tennis team, with five freshmen and just one senior, kicked off its season in a surprising destruction of a veteran Gonzaga team by a score of 7-0 on Saturday at the RecCen tennis cou...
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UCSB Cooks Matadors

The Gauchos staved off a voracious second-half rally by Cal State Northridge to upend the only Big West team without a conference victory after Long Beach State stopped Idaho at The Pyramid.
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Women’s Basketball:Gauchos Rip Northridge to Set Record

The #18 UCSB women's basketball team has waited all week to travel to Northridge to receive its prize: a road win and a place in the record books.
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FYI, Gauchos Tackle IPFW

After losing to Northridge 3-1 on Wednesday night in a dismal showing at the Matadome, the Gauchos will try to pick up the pieces and move forward.
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Santa Barbara Netters Find Freshman Phenom

The up and coming UCSB women's tennis team will unveil a new weapon this Saturday as the team begins its quest for an NCAA Tournament bid when it hosts Gonzaga.
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Fresh Off the Wire

The Gauchos may not be in tip-top shape, but the kids are alright. Freshman guards Cecil Brown and Josh Davis are the two shining stars of the UCSB men's basketball team. For the future, that is.
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Women’s basketball: Gauchos Hope to Ride on CSUNset

The #18 UCSB women's basketball team begins a three-game Big West road trip tonight and will shoot for a season sweep against CSUN tonight in the Matadome.
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