Sports

October 4, 2005

Adjusting to Football in Foreign Territory

By Stephanie Cain

When junior midfielder Eric Frimpong was nine years old, the hardest thing to find in his native country of Ghana was a soccer ball. So Frimpong and his friends wrapped together all their socks and played "football" in t...

October 4, 2005

Sac-Town Soliloquist: Woes out West

By Sean Swaby

If there's one thing my Dodger-blue-bleeding roommate Joaquin and I can agree on in the sports world, it's that we hate the Padres. My disdain for the Dodgers has been well documented, but I cringe at the thought of the ...

October 3, 2005

SB Snaps Historic Losing Streak in First Home Match

By Monique Moyal

During the first home stand of the season, the UCSB women's volleyball team had a case of déj´ vu, sweeping both Long Beach and Irvine in front of a packed houses this weekend, snapping its longest losing st...

October 3, 2005

Gauchos Annihilate Aggies Early

By Kip Hanson

Anyone who got to the game four minutes late on Friday night missed a couple of important goals from the UCSB women's soccer team in its 2-1 win.

September 30, 2005

Battle of the Beach Returns to T-Dome in SB Home Opener

By Monique Moyal

The UCSB women's volleyball team (4-7 overall, 0-1 in the Big West) looks to snap its current four-game losing streak this weekend when it hosts #25 Long Beach (10-3 overall) tonight at 7 p.m. and Irvine (6-7 overall) to...

September 30, 2005

Ms. October

By Monique Moyal

Since I'm a diehard A's fan, you could say that I'm used to my share of October surprises and heartbreaks. But I never saw this year coming.... I don't even know where to begin with the National League (NL) West, a verit...

September 30, 2005

Santa Barbara Hosts Future Big West Rival Davis

By Kip Hanson

The UCSB women's soccer team has the first chance this season to take on the team that will soon be the newest member of the Big West Conference. Davis, a former Division II school, will become an active member of the Bi...

September 29, 2005

Bruins Bump Undermanned SB

By Kip Hanson

#4 UCLA (9-1 overall) lived up to its notorious reputation last night by subjecting UCSB (5-6 overall) to ninety minutes of ruthless, fast and just plain quality soccer that ended with a tally of 5-0.

September 29, 2005

Santa Barbara Squelches Central Coast Rivals

By Sean Lewis

Wednesday night's game against Cal Poly was tough and physical; just the way the UCSB men's soccer team likes it. The Gauchos (5-2-1 overall, 2-0 in the Big West) rebounded from Sunday night's loss at Loyola Marymount (2...

September 28, 2005

Gauchos Look To Handle Hot UCLA

By Kip Hanson

A penalty kick shootout is an especially unpleasant means of deciding any soccer game, but especially a national championship. Surprisingly, the UCSB men's soccer team was not the only Division I soccer squad to discover...

September 28, 2005

SB Continues Title Defense Against Cal Poly

By Sean Lewis

If you could read the mind of last year's NSCAA National Coach of the Year and UCSB men's soccer Head Coach Tim Vom Steeg, you would probably hear one word above all the rest: defense.

September 27, 2005

Gauchos Suffer Two Heartbreakers in the Heat

By Kip Hanson

If tough experiences build character, then the UCSB women's soccer team (5-5-0 overall) has surely returned to Santa Barbara a better team than when they left.

September 27, 2005

Sports Column: Where Have You Been?

By Sean Swaby

If you thought the bookstores were crowded this week, just wait until you see the UCSB men's soccer team's bandwagon. On Friday night, somewhere around 7 p.m., thousands of Gaucho fans were piling into Harder Stadium - 2...

September 27, 2005

Men’s Club Soccer

By system

September 26, 2005

Santa Barbara Sinks Bulldogs, Slips in L.A.

By Chris Hoffman

The #10 UCSB men's soccer team faced two non-conference opponents this weekend, defeating Alabama A&M 3-1 and falling to Loyola Marymount 2-1.

September 26, 2005

Women’s Cross Country: Incomplete Team Earns UCSB a Top Five Finish at Stanford

By Jeremy Fuller

Even without their top runners, the UCSB women's cross country team apparently has what it takes to rule the Big West. The team finished fifth out of 33 teams at the Stanford Invitational Saturday, ahead of Big West riva...