Sports

February 8, 2005

UCSB Travels to #2 Pepperdine

By Jeff Gibson

Just like a group of stoked surfers awaiting some killer swell, the Santa Barbara men's volleyball team will look to ride the Waves tonight before it crashes into the Malibu shore.

February 8, 2005

Men’s Rugby: Final Try Gives SB Last-Minute Win Over UCLA

By Jeremy Fuller

With the hopes of an entire season riding on this possession, the UCSB men's rugby team began its final drive toward the UCLA goal line. A Bruin try, coming off a Gaucho fumble, gave the Bruins a 15-11 lead with two minu...

February 8, 2005

Women’s Rugby: Santa Barbara Blanks Occidental College 62-0

By Monique Moyal

With a home field advantage this weekend, the women's rugby club team (3-0 Southern California Rugby Football Union) stomped on its competition, winning two matches and moving closer to obtaining a bid to Nationals.

February 7, 2005

Sharpshooting Ags Whip UCSB

By Chris Trenchard

The Utah State men's basketball team didn't miss a beat, or a shot, in its 80-50 massacring of the Gauchos on Saturday night.

February 7, 2005

Santa Barbara Deletes Deficit to Beat Utah State

By Kip Hanson

There were plenty of ups, downs, strikes and gutters on Saturday as the UCSB women's basketball team trounced Utah State 67-59.

February 7, 2005

SB Can’t Overcome Top-Ranked UCLA

By Jeff Gibson

Even with the support of the largest crowd to fill Rob Gym this season, the Santa Barbara men's volleyball team couldn't knock off #1 UCLA on Friday night.

February 7, 2005

Santa Barbara Plates Two Victories Over Pepperdine

By Kelly Hayes

Who needed to watch the Super Bowl when you could have gotten just as much scoring from the UCSB baseball team this weekend? The Gauchos finished the weekend with 28 runs total, taking two of three from Pepperdine.

February 7, 2005

Softball: SB Snares Four in Early Tourney

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The UCSB softball team found the worms this weekend, taking first place in the Early Bird Tournament after going 4-1 on the weekend, with its only loss coming Friday afternoon from #16 Oregon State 7-3.

February 7, 2005

Men’s Swimming: Santa Barbara Strokers Split With Irvine at Campus Pool

By Alex Pavlovic

With the Big West Championships approaching, the UCSB men's swim team showed the rest of the conference why it once again has to be considered the favorite.

February 7, 2005

Women’s Swimming: Santa Barbara Strokers Split With Irvine at Campus Pool

By Alex Pavlovic

Senior Lindsay Dalonzo won two events in the last dual meet of her UCSB career and sophomore Jennifer Schwalb added two first-place finishes of her own, but it wasn't enough to keep Santa Barbara from losing to Irvine 17...

February 7, 2005

Men’s Tennis: Santa Barbara Can’t Win in Arizona

By Chris Hoffman

UCSB's men's tennis team was unable to quench its thirst after a long weekend in the desert, losing 5-2 to #32 University of Arizona on Saturday and falling to #33 Arizona State on Sunday 6-1.

February 4, 2005

Gaucho Defense Wins

By Chris Trenchard

With their roster back to a workable 10 players, the UCSB men's basketball team used a 19-3 second half run to dispose of Idaho 54-40 on Thursday night at the Thunderdome.

February 4, 2005

Idaho Stuns UCSB Again

By Kip Hanson

In its first season sweep at the hands of a Big West opponent in more than 10 years, Santa Barbara fell to Idaho 52-56 in Moscow for the second time this season after a poor 28.6 percent shooting performance on the night...

February 4, 2005

Santa Barbara Hosts #1 UCLA

By Jeff Gibson

After a disappointing road loss to Irvine on Wednesday night, the UCSB men's volleyball team has returned home to host #1 UCLA (9-1 overall, 5-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) tonight at 7:05 in Rob Gym.

February 4, 2005

Baseball: SB ‘Waves’ in New Season

By Kelly Hayes

UCSB enters its 12th season with Head Coach Bob Brontsema at the helm as a confident team, returning all of its weekend starting pitchers and three All-Big West team members from last season.

February 4, 2005

Softball: UCSB Faces #16 Oregon State, New Mexico in Tournament

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The UCSB softball team will be on the hunt for some worms this weekend in the Early Bird Tournament. The event brings to town some tough competition in the shape of #16 Oregon State and the University of New Mexico.