Sports

March 6, 2007

UCSB Comes Home to Face Waves

By Alex Pavlovic

After a high-scoring road trip in which it saw three closely contested games, the UCSB baseball team returns home for a midweek matchup against #13 Pepperdine.

March 6, 2007

Santa Barbara Drops Two of Three on Weekend Road Trip

By Ana Pineda Staff Writer

The #12 UCSB women's water polo team won just one of three games this weekend, defeating Pacific 13-6, but losing to #4 Cal 10-7 and #8 UC Davis 9-5.

March 6, 2007

Gauchos Hope to End Two-Game Skid

By Cassie Harris

After a much-needed break, the UCSB men's tennis team begins a busy stretch of its schedule with a home match against Georgia State this afternoon.

March 6, 2007

NCAA Denies UCSB’s Bid to Host College Cups

By Staff

Being a champion does not make everything easy.

March 6, 2007

Swing, Batter Batter

By Armchair QB

First Washington decides to stop playing Gonzaga in college basketball and now they want to ban booing in high school sports. Talk about sucking the fun out of life.

March 5, 2007

Santa Barbara Rolls Over Matadors on Senior Night

By Alex Pavlovic

The UCSB men's basketball team is getting hot at exactly the right time.

March 5, 2007

UCSB Shines at Sun Devil Invite

By Rob Garcia

In its biggest upset of the season, the UCSB softball team defeated #2 Arizona State and improved to 13-5 overall after the weekend's Sun Devil/Wilson DeMarini Invitational.

March 5, 2007

Gauchos Edge Northridge for Second Place

By Derek Mead

Despite a small late-season stumble with its loss Feb. 24, the UCSB women's basketball team has resumed form with a pair of wins on the road last week, including a 90-79 dismantling of Cal State Northridge on Saturday.

March 5, 2007

SB Grabs Pair of Sweeps on Road

By Tiffany Polfer

The #4 UCSB men's volleyball team packed their brooms over the weekend, sweeping #8 Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne in two nonconference matches.

March 5, 2007

Gauchos Salvage Lamar Classic

By Staff

After belting a game-winning home run over the right-field fence in the eleventh inning of the UCSB baseball team's 8-6 victory over Kansas State, senior first baseman Robbie Blauer will return from Beaumont, Tex.

March 5, 2007

Shake and Bake

By Armchair QB

Whatever happened to helping out your teammates in NASCAR?

March 2, 2007

Santa Barbara Banks on Home Win

By Alex Pavlovic

On the night when the Fantom finally returned to the Thunderdome, it was the Gaucho bench that stole the show, leading the UCSB men's basketball to a 64-49 victory over Pacific.

March 2, 2007

UCSB Poised to Take Second Place

By Derek Mead

After Saturday's disappointing loss to UC Riverside, the UCSB women's basketball team bounced back with a convincing 79-67 win over Pacific.

March 2, 2007

SB Seeks a Texas Turnaround

By Staff

After being mauled at the plate by the Golden Bears last weekend, the UCSB baseball team heads to Beaumont, Tex., this afternoon to take part in this weekend's Lamar Classic.

March 2, 2007

Streaking SB Heads Out-of-State

By Rob Garcia

Off to its best start in four years, the UC Santa Barbara softball team's bats have just begun to wake up.

March 2, 2007

Gauchos Prepare for San Diego

By Tiffany Polfer

The UCSB golf team, fresh off an eighth-place finish in the John Burns Invitational, will travel down to San Diego to participate in the Farms Invitational, hosted by the University of San Diego next week.