Sports

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-...

April 29, 2005

M.Lacrosse: Gauchos Prepare for WCLL Semifinal Showdown

By Alex Pavlovic

The UCs will battle the state schools this weekend in the latest argument of the California public university superiority debate. It will be settled via two very important lacrosse games.

April 29, 2005

Track and Field: Santa Barbara Sends Elite Runners to Cardinal Invitational

By Sean Lewis

The UCSB track and field teams will take the divide-and-conquer approach this weekend as it splits up to compete in two separate meets. The majority of the track and field teams will head to San Luis Obispo to compete in...

April 29, 2005

Baseball: Santa Barbara Braces for Titans

By Kelly Hayes

If UCSB baseball thought its last series against Cal Poly was tough, they may be in for a shocker this weekend. The Gauchos (19-21 overall, 1-5 in the Big West) will get back on the road today, traveling to #2 Fullerton ...

April 28, 2005

Sac-town Soliloquist: Defying Logic

By Sean Swaby

For those of us that grew up around the 916, come playoff time, we begin to worship at the temple of Mike Bibby. When the games really start to count, the Sacramento Kings' floor general seemingly performs divine interve...

April 28, 2005

SB Faces Fifth-Seeded Long Beach

By Jeff Gibson

If the Gauchos were a herd of raging bulls, then Long Beach State would be the unsuspecting rodeo clown. Traveling to Pepperdine tonight for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Tournament Semifinals, sixth-seed...

April 27, 2005

Katy Kunkel Joins the Century Club

By Alex Pavlovic

If you took all the traits that coaches look for in a perfect team captain and put them into a water polo player, you would find yourself looking at UCSB senior and 2-meter defender Katy Kunkel.

April 27, 2005

The Ack Attack: Dude, It’s a Wonderful Surf

By Kristina Ackermann

One downside to being a young surfer is you constantly have to answer to the criticism of the older generation. "You should do something productive with your time instead of hanging out at the beach all weekend long." "W...