Sports

March 5, 2020

No. 3 UCSB Beats No. 12 UCLA 3-1 on Tuesday Night

By Jesse Morrison

With 3 games and 9 straight set wins, the No. 4 UCSB men’s volleyball team, now 3-0, toppled their competition in their 2020 season debut at-home invitational.

March 5, 2020

No. 8 Gauchos To Kick Off Conference Play On Saturday

By Omar Hernandez

The Gauchos will take on a pair of Claremont Colleges, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas and Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, before facing off against the Cal State Northridge Matadors.

March 5, 2020

UCSB Hosts CSUF, Cal Poly Looking To Secure Second Place

By Spencer Ault

Two wins, and the Gauchos are assured the second seed in the Big West tournament and a position on the opposite side of the bracket from league-leading UC Irvine.

March 5, 2020

UCSB Baseball Heads to Corvallis After Defeating No. 1 UCLA

By Nick DiPierro

The Gauchos are coming off a one-game match at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium against the visiting nationally ranked UC Los Angeles Bruins, in which UCSB’s 8-5 victory was UCLA’s first loss of the season.

March 2, 2020

UCSB Baseball Sweeps UIC, Set to Host UCLA

By Nick DiPierro

The Gauchos will have a short rest as top-10 UCLA comes to town on Tuesday night.

February 26, 2020

Gauchos Host Flames Squad In Search of Their First Win

By Omar Hernandez

UCSB is riding high early on in its Big West title defense season, but this next slate of games has all the makings of a trap series.

February 26, 2020

UCSB Looks To Protect Big West Standing During Final Road Trip

By Spencer Ault

The Gauchos travel to Riverside to take on the Highlanders on Thursday at 7 p.m. and then swing over to Irvine to play the Anteaters on Saturday, also at 7 p.m.

February 25, 2020

UCSB Men’s Tennis Picks Up Two Needed Victories

By Annika Pearson

For what seems like the first time this season, the Gauchos demonstrated poise and consistency, allowing them to maintain control over each of their opponents.

February 25, 2020

Red-Hot Gauchos Blow Out Highlanders in Third-Straight Victory

By Brandon Victor

After defeating Cal State Northridge on Thursday, the UC Santa Barbara women’s basketball team turned in one of its most dominant performances of the season on Saturday, blowing out UC Riverside 65-47 in front of 265 s...

February 24, 2020

Gauchos Continue Big West Surge With Wins Over Titans and Aggies

By Spencer Ault

The two wins pushed the Gauchos’ record to 18-9 this season and 7-5 in conference play.

February 24, 2020

No. 3 UCSB Men’s Volleyball Sweeps No. 6 Pepperdine

By Jesse Morrison

Senior setter Casey McGarry had another huge performance picking up 40 assists in this game.

February 24, 2020

UCSB Baseball Continues Hot Start to the Season

By Nick DiPierro

UCSB outscored ACU 17-6 and featured nine pitchers who made scoreless appearances.

February 22, 2020

23-4 Run Propels Gauchos Past Matadors

By Brandon Victor

The Gauchos ripped off a 23-4 run, opening up a 17-point lead that the team would never lose en-route to a 65-60 victory over Cal State Northridge (CSUN).

February 20, 2020

No. 9 UCSB Women’s Water Polo Heads South for Barbara Kalbus Invitational

By Omar Hernandez

The Gauchos’ first match is set to get underway at 4:15 p.m. on Friday in Irvine, and the game against either San Diego State or Stanford will start at 8 a.m. on Saturday.

February 20, 2020

Following Tough Loss, UCSB Looks To Rebound Against CSUF, UCD

By Spencer Ault

The Gauchos get two opportunities this week to make a move up the standings and avenge a pair of losses — opportunities the team likely can’t afford to waste.