Sports

May 6, 2005

Baseball: Gauchos Slide Into ‘Dirtbags’

By Jeff Gibson

A seven-game losing streak can be quite a pickle, and when the UCSB baseball team hosts #11 Long Beach this weekend in a three-game series, the Gauchos will have their gloves full trying to fend off the 49ers' attempts t...

May 6, 2005

Softball: SB Takes Weekend Trip to Beach

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

It's a Big West softball battle to the death for UCSB and Long Beach. The Beach, which took the conference title last year, sits atop Big West rankings and climbed to #24 in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association pol...

May 6, 2005

Track and Field: Santa Barbara To Run Double Duty Again

By Sean Lewis

The UCSB track and field team has split its roster three times this season to send competitors to separate meets in separate cities. This Saturday it will do it for the second weekend in a row while it competes in the fi...

May 5, 2005

Gauchos Rope in Eight New Recruits for 2005

By Kelly Hayes

If the New York Yankees of men's college soccer thought that UCSB was going to pull a Florida Marlins and let its 2004 national finalist team fall by the wayside, then the Hoosiers, Terrapins and Blue Devils all have a n...

May 5, 2005

Club Sports Thrive Despite Small Budget

By Michael Long

There's always a price to play, but sometimes that's not always so bad. Despite limited financial assistance from the university, the UCSB Sports Club Program, a division of UCSB Recreational Sports, has excelled.

May 4, 2005

Baseball: The Big West Is Baseball Country

By Kelly Hayes

Sure, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has six spots in next year's Big Dance wrapped up. Maybe the Big 12 Conference already has its name in the running for all four of the 2006 Bowl Championship Series Bowls, and th...

May 4, 2005

The Ack Attack: Paradise Lost and Found

By Kristina Ackermann

Well kids, it's that time of year again. I know you're just as stoked as I am. Only one more day until the annual week and a half of utter mayhem begins. Cinco de Mayo isn't a day for celebrating Mexican history, it's a ...

May 4, 2005

Cycling: Gaucho Cyclists Finish Season in Seventh Place

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The UCSB cycling team will have to wait for next year to make an appearance at Nationals after finishing out its season with a seventh place showing at last weekend's Western Collegiate Cycling Conference Regionals in Re...

May 3, 2005

Softball: Senior Hits Home for Record

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

With 22 home runs in only two years at UCSB, senior first baseman Lindsey Herrin is kind of a big deal. Recruited by Iowa State to pitch, the Coalinga, Calif. native threw just 29 innings compiling a 3.62 ERA before movi...

May 3, 2005

Sailors Take Fifth at Pacific Coast Championships

By Nicole Busch Reporter

To finish the season, complying winds swept the UCSB sailing team into fifth place at the Pacific Coast Championships (PCC). Hosted by Long Beach, the PCC was held at the United States Sailing Center (USSC) on April 29 t...

May 2, 2005

Softball: Santa Barbara Mercies Northridge

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

UCSB's sweep over Northridge this weekend resembled a home run derby more than a softball series. The UCSB softball team combined with Northridge to tally seven four-baggers in a series that was markedly one-sided.

May 2, 2005

Women’s Water Polo:Gauchos Finish Ninth in Tourney

By Cassie Harris

After being upset in its first game of the tournament by San Diego State, the seventh-seeded Gaucho women's water polo team defeated San Jose and Arizona State over the weekend en route to a ninth place finish in the Mou...

May 2, 2005

Baseball: Fullerton Scores 35 Runs in Wins

By Kelly Hayes

With the dismal state of things on the UCSB baseball team, Goodwin Field was not the ideal place to turn things around. #2 Fullerton took advantage of the Gauchos with a weekend sweep, earning sole possession of first pl...

April 29, 2005

M.VolleyBall: Long Beach State Spikes UCSB’s Punch

By Jeff Gibson

Needing only one win in order move on to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship, the #5 Santa Barbara men's volleyball team, ran into a devastating speed bump last night in Malibu against #3 Long Beach, putt...

April 29, 2005

W.Water Polo: San Diego State Stalls Gauchos

By Alex Pavlovic

The UCSB women's water polo team was looking forward to another chance to play defending national champion USC. The Gauchos won't get that shot after a disappointing loss to San Diego State in the first round of the Moun...

April 29, 2005

Softball: Struggling Northridge Comes to Town to Take On UCSB

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

When you're up you're up and, more noticeably, when you're down, everyone is trying to keep you down. Santa Barbara and Northridge are two clear examples of this, and they take to Campus Diamond this weekend for a three-...