Sports

February 27, 2008

Bruins Await Gauchos in Westwood

By Matt Connolly

After sweeping Marist College over the weekend to open the season, the UCSB baseball team heads south to face UCLA for one game at Jackie Robinson Stadium tonight at 6 p.m. The Bruins (2-1 overall), who came into the sea...

February 27, 2008

SB Impresses in Tourney

By Rob Garcia

The UCSB softball team persevered through rain and cold weather to take four out of five games in this weekend's Softball by the Beach Tournament.

February 27, 2008

UCSB Faces Third Pac-10 Foe

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB men's tennis team will travel to Westwood today to play #6 UCLA at 1:30 p.m.

February 27, 2008

Bigfoot!

By Staff

Congrats, Warrior fans. Yao’s giant foot just guaranteed your team a place in the playoffs. Too bad Kobe and Co. will sweep through the 1 vs. 8 series.

February 26, 2008

UCSB Pummels Visiting Ducks

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB men's tennis team (3-2 overall) continued its winning ways, beating Oregon 6-1 on Sunday afternoon at the Rec Cen courts in the Gauchos biggest win over a Pac-10 school in a decade.

February 26, 2008

Gauchos Stay Unbeaten on Home Court

By Miles Yim

Seniors Marta Simic and Charlotte Scatliffe set the tone for the UCSB women's tennis team's fifth match of the season in a dominating 8-1 victory over Eastern Michigan's top-ranked doubles squad en route to a 6-1 Gaucho ...

February 26, 2008

SB Opens Season With Eleventh-Place Finish

By John Greely

The UCSB men's golf team started off the season in style, heading to Honolulu, Hawaii to compete in the John Burns Intercollegiate tournament. In the exceptionally tough field of 21 teams, the Gauchos ended up finishing ...

February 26, 2008

Armchair QB

By Staff

How can a NHL player get a DUI? Those guys are so hardcore, they can pound a handle of just about anything and still skate like a fairy.

February 25, 2008

SB Swims Away With Titles

By Ana Pineda Staff Writer

They came. They swam. They conquered. The UCSB men's and women's swim teams showed total domination at the 2008 Big West Swimming and Diving Championships by winning dual titles.

February 25, 2008

SB Loses for First Time in 2008

By Cassie Harris

It spanned nearly two months, but all streaks must eventually come to an end as the UCSB women's basketball team lost for the first time in 14 games Saturday afternoon against UC Davis.

February 25, 2008

Gauchos Get Bracket Busted

By Rob Garcia

UCSB could not grind it out in the team's final non-conference game of the regular season. A raucous crowd at Dee Glen Smith Spectrum watched as Santa Barbara (20-7 overall, 9-4 in the Big West) fell to former conference...

February 25, 2008

UCSB Struggles Mightily

By Matt Crowell

The UCSB women's water polo team did not have a fun weekend in Irvine. After falling to UC Irvine in MPSF play on Friday, the Gauchos (4-8 overall, 0-2 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) lost all four of their ga...

February 25, 2008

SB Manhandles Marist in Opener

By Matt Connolly

The UCSB baseball team connected on all cylinders, soundly defeating Marist College (0-3) in each of their three games over the weekend at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.

February 25, 2008

Gauchos Stick It to Ranked Opponents

By Derek Mead

Despite the gloomy weather, the UCSB club men's lacrosse team brought the heat this weekend with a pair of wins over ranked opponents in Santa Barbara. The #3 Gauchos (6-1 overall, 2-0 in Western Collegiate Lacrosse Leag...

February 25, 2008

Defending National Champs Drub Gauchos

By Tiffany Polfer

The #14 UCSB men's volleyball team (7-8 overall, 5-6 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) kicked off a four match long road trip with a disappointing loss. The Gauchos dropped an important MPSF match to the reignin...

February 25, 2008

More Like Miniature Gold

By Staff

Tiger Woods has won six of his last seven PGA Tour events, but lets see him match the QB’s streak of 12 straight wins on the Bay Area Under-17 Miniature Golf Tour. That’s one record that’s never going t...