Kelly Hayes

February 25, 2005

Baseball: UCSB Hosts Beavers

By Kelly Hayes

After an onslaught of wet weather, a postponed game and one practice session this week, the UCSB baseball team plays host to Oregon this weekend.

February 22, 2005

Baseball: Santa Barbara Wins First Two

By Kelly Hayes

It was a series full of firsts for UCSB baseball this weekend at Fresno. UCSB won the series by taking games one and two, a first in 2005. Junior starters Steve Morlock and Michael Martin both picked up their first wins ...

February 18, 2005

Baseball: UCSB Takes Two Series Wins to Fresno

By Kelly Hayes

With wet weather in the forecast at Fresno, the UCSB baseball team may be better off packing galoshes, ponchos and umbrellas than bats, gloves and cleats for this weekend's road trip.

February 16, 2005

Baseball: Santa Barbara Wallops Westmont

By Kelly Hayes

The UCSB baseball team sure tried to make it look like a rivalry. However, a five-run fifth, four-run sixth and three-run seventh inning for the Gauchos turned a competitive game into a 14-2 beating of Westmont.

February 15, 2005

Baseball: Gauchos Host X-Town ‘Rivals’

By Kelly Hayes

It doesn't seem fair to call it a rivalry anymore. The UCSB baseball team has taken 10 straight and holds a 79-23 series advantage over Westmont. The cross-town "rivals" meet again today at 2 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadi...

February 14, 2005

Baseball: SB Bookends Spartans

By Kelly Hayes

San Jose, Calif. - Maybe the UCSB baseball team should have a game suspended every series. So far, it has led to two series wins to kick off the 2005 season.

February 11, 2005

Baseball: San Jose Series Tests Santa Barbara

By Kelly Hayes

In the midst of midterms, the last thing the UCSB baseball team wants is another test. However, a test is exactly what the Gauchos will get this weekend, as they travel to the Bay Area to play three at San Jose.

February 7, 2005

Santa Barbara Plates Two Victories Over Pepperdine

By Kelly Hayes

Who needed to watch the Super Bowl when you could have gotten just as much scoring from the UCSB baseball team this weekend? The Gauchos finished the weekend with 28 runs total, taking two of three from Pepperdine.

February 4, 2005

Baseball: SB ‘Waves’ in New Season

By Kelly Hayes

UCSB enters its 12th season with Head Coach Bob Brontsema at the helm as a confident team, returning all of its weekend starting pitchers and three All-Big West team members from last season.

January 19, 2005

2005 Baseball Preview: UCSB Yearns for Yesteryear

By Kelly Hayes

In 2001, the UCSB baseball team made its last appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Since then, the Gauchos haven't finished higher than fourth place in the Big West Conference and have been looking for some way to return t...

January 18, 2005

Gaucho Soccer Busy Over Weekend

By Kelly Hayes

With the national championship game a month behind it, the UCSB men's soccer team continued to reap the benefits of its most successful season in school history on Friday.

January 5, 2005

SB Seniors Aim For MLS

By Kelly Hayes

At the time the Major League Soccer (MLS) Combine invitees were announced in December, nothing could have been further from the minds of the members of the UCSB men's soccer team.

January 3, 2005

Gauchos PKO’d in National Championship

By Kelly Hayes

Closest only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, but the UCSB men's soccer team came so close to getting a ringer in the 2004 College Cup on Dec. 2, it could almost hear the metal clanking.

December 2, 2004

Gauchos Advance to Elite Eight

By Kelly Hayes

In North Carolina, the UCSB men's soccer team washed away the bitterness of losing in overtime to St. John's University in last year's Sweet 16.

November 24, 2004

Gauchos Get Off Scott-Free

By Kelly Hayes

Beam me up, Scotty

November 16, 2004

SB Slapped With Ninth Seed

By Kelly Hayes

Talk about awakening a sleeping giant. The #1-ranked UCSB men's soccer team heard its alarm loud and clear Monday after receiving the #9 seed in the 2004 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.