Sports

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.

February 18, 2005

Baseball: UCSB Takes Two Series Wins to Fresno

By Kelly Hayes

With wet weather in the forecast at Fresno, the UCSB baseball team may be better off packing galoshes, ponchos and umbrellas than bats, gloves and cleats for this weekend's road trip.

February 18, 2005

SB Heads to the Pyramid

By Jeff Gibson

It might be raining and possibly even pouring, but no one on the Santa Barbara men's volleyball team will be getting much snoring done this weekend as the Gauchos travel down south for two tough road matches.

February 18, 2005

W.Water Polo: Gauchos Face #8 San Diego, #1 UCLA

By Alex Pavlovic

The UCSB women's water polo team will try to climb the national rankings this weekend when it takes on two of the top teams in the country.

February 18, 2005

M.Tennis: SB Takes Another Three-Game, Three-Day Road Trip

By Chris Hoffman

A six-game losing streak and yet another three-games-in-three-days weekend road trip wouldn't seem to bode well for the UCSB men's tennis team, but the Gauchos appear to be on the verge of turning the corner.

February 17, 2005

#19 UOP Cuts Down Nets on SB

By Chris Trenchard

For 28 minutes, it seemed like the Gauchos were poised to do the unthinkable against #19 Pacific, but fruitless shooting over a seven-minute stretch turned the notion into fiction. Down 48-44 with 11:45 remaining in the ...

February 17, 2005

Gauchos Smell the Madness

By Kip Hanson

March is so close, the Gauchos (13-8 overall, 10-2 in the Big West) can taste it. As this dogfight of a season nears its end, the first-place UCSB women's basketball team is back in a familiar place with a half-game lead...

February 17, 2005

Women’s Tennis: UCSB Climbs Into Top 75 Nationally

By Jeremy Fuller

After an impressive start, the #73 UCSB women's tennis team will begin an important road trip on Thursday against Big West Conference foe Cal State Northridge.

February 17, 2005

Softball: SB To Host Commercial Capital Invitational

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

After a laborious weekend in Sin City, the UCSB softball team hopes to get some tender bliss this weekend as it hosts the Commercial Capital Invitational, beginning today at Campus Diamond.

February 16, 2005

Baseball: Santa Barbara Wallops Westmont

By Kelly Hayes

The UCSB baseball team sure tried to make it look like a rivalry. However, a five-run fifth, four-run sixth and three-run seventh inning for the Gauchos turned a competitive game into a 14-2 beating of Westmont.