Sports

March 30, 2009

Cardinal Bumps SB in Tourney

By John Greely

For 63 of the 64 participants in the Big Dance every year, their season must end with a loss. Such was the case for the UCSB women's basketball team, overmatched by a fantastic Stanford squad in the NCAA first round and ...

March 30, 2009

CSUN Surprises UCSB

By Matt Connolly

After an explosive beginning to its first conference series of the season that saw the #19 UC Santa Barbara baseball team plate 21 runs in a Friday victory, the Gauchos' (14-7 overall, 1-2 in the Big West) red-hot hittin...

March 30, 2009

Matadors Torch Santa Barbara

By Derek Mead

It was a hell of a run, but it couldn't make it all the way. On March 13, the UCSB men's basketball team fell to Big West Champion Cal State Northridge 67-60 in the semifinal match of the conference tournament. The loss...

March 30, 2009

SB Eeks Out Rubber Match

By Miles Yim

After surrendering a season-high 10 runs in the final inning of game two, the UCSB softball team took the rubber match against conference foe UC Riverside for a 2-1 series win. Apart from winning their first Big West ser...

March 9, 2009

Gauchos Bury Long Beach

By Derek Mead

Saturday night the Gauchos (8-8 Big West, 15-14 overall) toppled Long Beach State (10-6, 15-14) 76-75, overcoming a six-point deficit in the final four minutes.

March 9, 2009

UCR and LBSU Get Balled Up

By John Greely

It was just one more weekend, two more wins and one conference championship for the UCSB women's basketball team, as Lindsay Gottlieb's Gauchos defeated UC Riverside and Long Beach State on the road to finish the regular...

March 9, 2009

UCSB Sweeps Visiting LMU

By Matt Connolly

After grinding their way to three hard-fought wins over Friday and Saturday, the Gauchos (9-2 overall) capped off a successful homestand with a 10-3 stomping of a downtrodden LMU squad in Sunday's finale. It was a fittin...

March 9, 2009

SB Holds Down the Home Pool

By Miles Yim

After spending the month of February on the road, the #13 UCSB women's water polo team took advantage of their first weekend home stand of the 2009 regular season by dismantling CSU Monterey Bay 15-7 on Thursday before g...

March 9, 2009

IM Basketball Edition

By Matt Connolly, Derek Mead

Move over '72 Miami Dolphins, The Rimjobs are the new measure of perfection. After blowing their way through Sunday night's excuse for a B-League, The Rimmies are ready to physically and orally decimate any opponent come...

March 5, 2009

Highlanders Head to UCSB

By Derek Mead

After clinching a berth into the Big West tournament with a win over UC Davis last Saturday, the UCSB men's basketball team is now looking to climb atop the conference fray and sneak their way into grabbing a bye heading...

March 5, 2009

Mustache Madness

By Todd Prodanovich

March is a special time of the year: spring begins, and with the blooming of the flowers also comes the blooming of facial hair in the form of the most masculine symbol in the history of the world -- the mustache.

March 5, 2009

UCSB Seeks #1 Seed

By John Greely

The Big West title is on the line tonight, when the Gaucho women's basketball team takes on UC Riverside. The only school that has played foil to UCSB over the last few years in what has otherwise been a one-team confere...

March 4, 2009

Gauchos Net Nationals Bid

By Ryan Eagleson

The UCSB men's roller hockey team won the Western Regional Tournament this past weekend, earning a bid to the National Tournament on April 1 through 5. This is the first regional win for the Gauchos (16-6-2) in nine year...

March 4, 2009

Doubles Point Defines Weekend Wins

By Ravi Bhatia

Although it might be too early to tell, the UCSB women's tennis team might have found the formula they need to take the doubles points against their Big West foes, sweeping San Jose State 7-0 on Saturday at the Robertson...

March 4, 2009

Santa Barbara Finishes Ninth

By Staff

After a disappointing 13th place finish in the John Burns Intercollegiate in Hawaii last week, Gaucho golf was looking to do some damage to a slew of west coast foes, but it was not to be. UCSB took ninth place out of th...

March 3, 2009

Santa Barbara Flattens CSUB

By Miles Yim

Senior second baseman Christine Ramos broke the school record for hits in a career as the UCSB softball team took two of three at Bakersfield this weekend. The Gauchos (11-7 overall) split the first day with the Roadrunn...