Sports

February 24, 2005

UCSB Endeavors to Hold Onto First Place

By Kip Hanson

The UCSB women's basketball team is locked and loaded for its final road trip of the regular season. Facing yet another team that has been victorious over the Gaucho's (15-8 overall, 12-2 in the Big West) nemesis Idaho, ...

February 24, 2005

Gauchos To Host Red-Hot Fullerton

By Michael Long

After an impressive road win against central coast rival Cal Poly, the UCSB men's basketball team returns to UCSB for its final home games of the season. The Gauchos (9-14 overall, 6-8 in the Big West) will host Fullerto...

February 24, 2005

Swimming: Men Jump Out to Fast Start

By Sean Lewis

Santa Barbara swimming made a huge splash in the opening day of the Big West Conference Championships on Wednesday night with three record-breaking performances and the men going back to their hotel in first place.

February 23, 2005

Men’s Swimming: Gaucho Men Look to Defend Big West Title

By Sean Lewis

Santa Barbara will face deep competition when it jumps into the pool Wednesday to begin the Big West Swimming and Diving Championships held in Long Beach.

February 23, 2005

UCSB Heads to Land of Troy

By Jeff Gibson

Tonight at USC, the #6 Santa Barbara men's volleyball team looks to add upon its two-game winning streak on the road and to show the Trojans that just because they have a decent football team doesn't mean they can conten...

February 23, 2005

Women’s Lacrosse: #2 Santa Barbara Upsets #1 Michigan in Los Olivos

By Michael Long

Nestled quaintly on a small field in the Santa Ynez Valley, the UCSB women's lacrosse team found a sanctuary amid the challenges mounted by a storming tempest.

February 22, 2005

Gauchos Nip Northridge

By Kip Hanson

Slow and steady doesn't always win the race. With their fast-paced approach to basketball, the UCSB women (15-8 overall, 12-2 in the Big West) dashed their way to a 74-46 victory and put an end to Northridge's (15-8 over...

February 22, 2005

UCSB Upsets Long Beach

By Jeff Gibson

Paralleled with Santa Barbara's recent torrential rainstorm, the #7 Gaucho men's volleyball team thundered through Southern California like a tropical hurricane this weekend, upsetting #4 Long Beach and hammering unranke...

February 22, 2005

SB Wrangles Mustangs

By Sean Swaby

With UCSB's 78-66 drubbing of Cal Poly on Saturday night, Gaucho fans were treated to a glimpse of the past and visions of the future. Freshman guard Alex Harris tied for a team-high 16 points to help halt Santa Barbara'...

February 22, 2005

Women’s Water Polo: #1 UCLA Dismisses Gauchos Handily In Westwood

By Alex Pavlovic

The UCSB women's water polo team played two conference games this weekend and came away with two very different results. The #10 Gauchos (4-3 overall, 1-2 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) got their first home w...

February 22, 2005

Baseball: Santa Barbara Wins First Two

By Kelly Hayes

It was a series full of firsts for UCSB baseball this weekend at Fresno. UCSB won the series by taking games one and two, a first in 2005. Junior starters Steve Morlock and Michael Martin both picked up their first wins ...

February 22, 2005

Track and Field: Santa Barbara Reigns in Home Meet

By Jessica Vrazilek

In its season opener, the UCSB track team pulled off men's and women's victories in a tri-meet with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Westmont. "It was our first meet of the year and it was in the rain," junior sprinter Kylie M...

February 22, 2005

Men’s Tennis Wins

By Chris Hoffman

One holiday weekend, a little rain and two losses left the UCSB men's tennis team full of disappointment. The Gauchos missed an opportunity to get back in the win column as Saturday's match against Davis was rained out. ...

February 22, 2005

Softball Tournament Battles Rain

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

Rain cancelled all but two games in this weekend's Commercial Capital Invitational Softball Tournament at Campus Diamond. After Thursday's tournament opener against BYU was rained out, the Gauchos (6-6 overall) defeated ...

February 18, 2005

Santa Barbara Tames Tigers 73-40

By Kip Hanson

Santa Barbara began the night with an 18-2 run, getting 12 points from senior forward Kristen Mann in the first eight minutes of play, and kept at the throats of the Tigers until the final buzzer blared.

February 18, 2005

Sac-town soliloquist: ‘Stangs Got Nuthin’ on Us

By Sean Swaby

When you've lost 11 straight road games, it doesn't take a mathematician or some cigar-wielding, line-making Vegas junkie to realize that another loss is inevitable.