Sports

February 28, 2005

Gauchos Survive Riverside Scare

By Chris Trenchard

With the game clock dwindling and UCSB leading by two, Riverside fired errantly three times from three-point land until, with less than one second remaining, sophomore Glenn Turner finally came up with a defensive reboun...

February 28, 2005

W. Tennis: Gauchos Prevail on Northern Road Trip

By Michael Long

The UCSB women's tennis team went north over the weekend for three matches in as many days, taking two of three and losing only to Big West Conference foe University of the Pacific.

February 28, 2005

SB Fends Off Riverside

By Kip Hanson

In its final road battle of the season, Santa Barbara (17-8 overall, 14-2 in the Big West) avoided further blood on its record after escaping unscathed from a second-half barrage by the Highlanders (13-12 overall, 8-8 Bi...

February 28, 2005

Swimming: Lack Of Divers Hurts SB at Big West Championship

By Sean Lewis

The Santa Barbara men's swimming team was determined to hold on to its conference title, but Pacific was too much to hold back in the Big West Conference swimming championships, which were held in Long Beach and conclude...

February 28, 2005

Baseball: Oregon State Brings Brooms

By Kelly Hayes

Oregon State did a little early spring cleaning this weekend, sweeping Santa Barbara baseball in three games at home. The Beavers (9-1) took out their brooms, dusting the Gauchos (7-6) under the rug at Caesar Uyesaka Sta...

February 28, 2005

Softball: UCSB Sweeps Saint Mary’s

By Monique Moyal

The UCSB softball team (8-6 overall) had a case of d

February 28, 2005

Golf: SB Wavers in Hawaii

By Alex Pavlovic

The UCSB men's golf team got off to a slow start in the John Burns Intercollegiate but came on strong in the final two rounds to secure an 11th-place finish.

February 28, 2005

W. Water Polo: #1 UCLA Claims Gaucho Invite

By Alex Pavlovic

The best women's water polo players in the country were in Santa Barbara this weekend to participate in the Daktronics Gaucho Invitational. UCSB (7-5 overall, 1-2 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) went 3-2 on th...

February 25, 2005

Fullerton Jolts Depleted UCSB

By Chris Trenchard

Even with the return of The Phantom to the Thunderdome, the UCSB men's basketball team had little to smile about Thursday night in its 66-57 loss to Fullerton. The Titans came in third place in the Big West and only wide...

February 25, 2005

SB Widens Gap

By Kip Hanson

The Gauchos showed last night why they've been the Lords of the Hoop in the Big West Conference for the past 10 years by destroying Fullerton 83-40 with the help of its Two Towers, junior forward Autumn Nichols and senio...

February 25, 2005

M.Golf: Santa Barbara Golfers Take Strokes in Hawaii

By Alex Pavlovic

With a barrage of thunderstorms hitting Southern California this week, there is no better time for the UCSB men's golf team to take a road trip. The Gauchos will head to Hawaii this week to participate in the John Burns ...

February 25, 2005

W.Tennis: #73 Gauchos Hit The Road

By Jeremy Fuller

After losing two matches to the weather, the #73 women's tennis team goes on the road this weekend, hoping for bluer skies and better fortunes.

February 25, 2005

Baseball: UCSB Hosts Beavers

By Kelly Hayes

After an onslaught of wet weather, a postponed game and one practice session this week, the UCSB baseball team plays host to Oregon this weekend.

February 25, 2005

Softball: Gauchos Return to Play

By Monique Moyal

After two straight weeks of rainouts invoked by nine inches of rain in Santa Barbara in the past week, the UCSB softball team looks to break out of the .500 mark Saturday with a doubleheader against Saint Mary's College,...

February 25, 2005

W.Water Polo: SB To Host Nation

By Nexus Staff Report

Eighteen of the top 20 women's water polo teams in the nation will join five more teams to participate in the Daktronics Gaucho Invitational to be held at Campus Pool today through Sunday.

February 24, 2005

#6 Santa Barbara Sweeps USC

By Jeff Gibson

The #6 Santa Barbara men's volleyball team dismantled the Trojan horse last night, constructing brooms out of the remaining rubble in the Gauchos' uncontested sweep over unranked USC.