Sports

March 29, 2005

Swimming: Schwalb Matures at NCAA Championships

By Sean Lewis

Jen Schwalb swam into the national spotlight when she competed at the Division I NCAA Swimming Championship in West Lafayette, Ind. at Purdue University. Schwalb competed in three events during the meet held March 17-19:...

March 28, 2005

Baseball: Gauchos Brush Off Oral Roberts

By Kelly Hayes

While other students lounged in the exotic locales of Cabo San Lucas and Costa Rica, the only break the UCSB baseball team got was in the batter's box. The Gauchos went 6-1 during their Spring Break, earning their first ...

March 28, 2005

Softball: CSU Fullerton Foils SB

By Chris Hoffman

Fullerton swept the UCSB softball team (14-13 overall, 0-3 in the Big West) in a three-game series at Campus Diamond this past weekend. The Titans (12-11 overall, 3-0 Big West) were victorious twice on Friday by scores o...

March 28, 2005

Notre Dame Cuts UCSB’s Dance Short

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

On a map, a first-round matchup in Fresno seemed like nothing more than home game away from home, but the confines of the Save Mart Center were anything but accommodating to the Gaucho shooters.

March 28, 2005

Track and Field: SB Raises Bar at Stanford Invite

By Jessica Vrazilek

This weekend the UCSB track team traveled to Palo Alto, Calif., to compete in the annual Stanford Invitational. Santa Barbara came back with a new school record and set NCAA regional marks. "This was a nationally prestig...

March 28, 2005

Cal Baptist Ends SB Streak

By Jeff Gibson

After #9 Northridge put a bitter end to Santa Barbara's six-match winning streak on March 9, the #5 Gaucho men's volleyball team coasted through non-conference play in Long Beach before being stumped by NAIA #1 Cal Bapti...

March 28, 2005

SB’s Frustrating Season Ends in Anaheim

By Kelly Hayes

In a historic year for the Big West Conference, during which it placed two teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament for the first time since 1993, the closest the UCSB men's basketball team could get to the Big Danc...

March 28, 2005

Women’s Water Polo: Gauchos Break Even in Northern California

By Cassie Harris

And you thought your Spring Break was wild. The UCSB women's water polo team (12-7 overall, 3-3 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) endured a raucous Spring Break of its own as it went up north to play four games ...

March 28, 2005

Cary Carries Away Lessons From Minneapolis

By Sean Lewis

Gaucho swimmer Pat Cary made waves on a national level Friday and Saturday in Minneapolis at the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships. Cary competed in the 100 butterfly Friday and the 200 fly Saturday, but ...

March 4, 2005

Gauchos Trounce Anteaters

By Kip Hanson

The bad news last night was that UCSB didn't score a basket from the field in the last 10.5 minutes of play. The good news, however, was that it set a school record for free throws both made and taken, scored 79 points a...

March 4, 2005

SB Falls Down the Stretch

By Chris Trenchard

CSB did not know what Irvine junior guard Ross Schraeder was capable of. Schraeder torched the Gauchos for 21 points, including two consecutive three pointers in the final two minutes to lead the Anteaters to a 72-63 vic...

March 4, 2005

Pacific Takes UCSB to Four Games

By Jeff Gibson

Tigers may be an endangered species, but that didn't stop the #5 UCSB men's volleyball team from poaching them last night. Santa Barbara rose to the top over visiting #10 Pacific 3-1 Thursday night in Rob Gym, as early o...

March 4, 2005

Baseball: Santa Barbara Heads to Seattle

By Kelly Hayes

After having wet weather cancel one game, suspend another and ruin numerous practices, it seems ironic that the UCSB baseball team is traveling to Seattle to get out of the rain this weekend. Washington (5-7) plays host ...

March 3, 2005

Seniors Prepare for Final Home Games

By Kip Hanson

When the final buzzer blares this Saturday night, the Thunderdome will lose just a little bit of its thunder. Senior forwards Kristen Mann, Brandy Richardson, Kate Bauman and senior guard Mia Fisher will bid farewell thi...

March 3, 2005

Sports Column: Foul Cooking

By Michael Long

On the evening of Jan. 2, one night before UCSB students returned to classes from Winter Break, the UCSB men's basketball team entered the Matadome to rumble with conference rival Northridge in an early Big West challeng...

March 3, 2005

Kowalski Sets Stage for Tonight’s Match vs. UOP

By Jeff Gibson

Setting up the perfect kill, junior setter Bart Kowalski can perform in the clutch just like a veteran mobster still clinging to his prime. After winning the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Week award la...