Sports

UCSB Aims to Right Ship in ’09

January 22, 2009 by

Coming off a season filled with underachievement, humiliation and disappointment, the UCSB women's water polo team opens the 2008-09 season at the Lancer Invitational in Riverside this Saturday with n...
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SB Club Lacrosse To Cross With SD State

January 22, 2009 by

The Gauchos have another busy weekend ahead of them. On Saturday, the Gauchos open their season with the Surfside Cup at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego.
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Be a Good Fan, Save Your $cratch

January 21, 2009 by

With the inauguration taking place yesterday, hope and optimism throughout the majority of the American populace are at their highest levels in a decade. Despite the economy going Chernobyl, a tremend...
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SB Welcomes Weekend Homestand

January 21, 2009 by

The Gauchos (1-3-1 overall, 0-1 in conference) bookended their preseason against a Utah squad (9-2-1) that had won eight out of the last 11 games going into the Jan. 10 contest.
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UCSB Wrecks Poly

January 20, 2009 by

Losing is hard to take. Maybe that could explain why Santa Barbara seems to be avoiding it like the plague recently.
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SB Rolls on Poly

January 20, 2009 by

With the Big West conference better than it ever has been, it takes 40 full minutes of solid effort to snag a win. Saturday night against Cal Poly, the UCSB men's basketball team did just that. The G...
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Gauchos Sink Davis

January 20, 2009 by

The UCSB men's and women's swimming teams cruised past conference rival UC Davis on Saturday afternoon at Campus Pool, the men winning 168-94 and the women winning 154.5-87.5.
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UCLA Skates Past Gauchos

January 20, 2009 by

Gaucho sophomore outside hitter Jeff Menzel posted a match high in kills with 24 on a season high .419 attack percentage, but #8 UCLA (2-3 overall, 1-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) held ...
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Gauchos Take Wind out of Vikings’ Sails

January 15, 2009 by

Three weeks ago, the UCSB women's basketball team was off to a rocky start under first-year coach Lindsay Gottlieb. The team had just lost to Kentucky and found itself with an uncomfortable 3-6 record...
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Irvine Spoils SB’s MPSF Opener

January 15, 2009 by

UC Irvine's 6-5 redshirt freshman opposite Carson Clark from Santa Barbara hit a career-high of 24 of the team's 59 kills on 32 attacks and four errors for a .625 hitting percentage on the way to a 30...
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SB Heading for SLO Victory

January 15, 2009 by

After giving up yet another come-from-behind loss to Cal State Fullerton last Saturday, the UCSB men's basketball team will be shooting to pick up some Big West momentum this Saturday night against co...
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UCSB Welcomes Davis

January 15, 2009 by

The UCSB swimming team will host their first dual meet of 2009 on Saturday at noon, swimming against conference rival UC Davis at Campus Pool. “If they want to beat us, they will have to swim re...
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Gauchos Look to Herd ‘Eaters

January 14, 2009 by

A rejuvenated Gaucho lineup made a statement in the Elephant Bar Invitational this past weekend, laying a 3-0 shutout on #4 Long Beach State to take third in the tournament. National polls took notice...
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SB Tries to Fend off Viking Invasion

January 14, 2009 by

UCSB women's basketball gets a rare break from Big West play tonight, as the Portland State Vikings are coming to town for Santa Barbara's second to last nonconference game of the season.
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Birkenstocks and Banana Slugs

January 14, 2009 by

Just so everyone is clear, what I am about to say is not an opinion; it is a fact. It is one of the indisputable truths in life, just like the fact that the Earth is round, the sky is blue, and you ar...
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