Sports

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...

March 2, 2005

Baseball: UCSB Clouts Cal Poly 11-8

By Kelly Hayes

Cal Poly must have figured at least one of their pitchers could get it right. However, the UCSB baseball team picked apart every one of the Mustangs' nine pitchers to snap a four-game losing streak with an 11-8 victory a...

March 2, 2005

In The Trenches: You Be The Judge

By Chris Trenchard

It's becoming routine around these parts. Another year has passed, and with it another dominant display of women's basketball at UCSB has gone largely unnoticed: ho-hum.

March 2, 2005

Women’s Lacrosse: Top-Ranked Santa Barbara Remains Undefeated

By Michael Long

Undefeated seems like a nice place to be for a team, but perfection in the rankings just isn't good enough for the UCSB women's lacrosse team these days. The Gauchos downed St. John Fisher 14-7 Saturday on Cal Poly's hom...

March 1, 2005

Baseball: Rivals To Meet at Caesar Uyesaka

By Kelly Hayes

UCSB baseball renews the Central Coast rivalry with Cal Poly today at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. The Mustangs come to town for the first of two midweek games between the teams in the next two weeks as part of a home-home no...

March 1, 2005

Men’s Lacrosse: Top-Ranked Santa Barbara Licks LMU

By Alex Pavlovic

The men's lacrosse team showed why it is considered the best club lacrosse team in the country on as it easily defeated Loyola Marymount 13-4 on Saturday.

March 1, 2005

Men’s Rugby: Gauchos Stay Alive in Bid for Playoffs

By Jeremy Fuller

It wasn't a win, but with the playoffs on the line, the UCSB men's rugby team will take the tie. The Gauchos kept their playoff hopes alive by scoring a last second try to pull within two points of San Diego State, then ...