Sports

November 9, 2004

Showdown Tonight for Big West Championship

By Kelly Hayes

Harder Stadium takes a trip back to the OK Corral tonight. The UCSB men's soccer team hosts Northridge, looking to show its opponent how the Big West is won.

November 9, 2004

Cycling: SB Rolls in Races

By Monique Moyal

This weekend at San Diego, the Santa Barbara club cycling team peddled its way into various top spots in different cycling categories. UCSB nearly had a monopoly on first place wins in all of its races in San Diego.

November 9, 2004

Crew: Santa Barbara Crew Scores Varying Results

By Jessica Vrazilek

The UCSB novice rowing teams joined their varsity crews in the Newport Autumn Rowing Festival this weekend at Newport Beach. This was an action-filled weekend for all the crews, starting with Parent's and Alumni Day on S...

November 8, 2004

SB Sautees Strakonice

By Lauren Creamer

Excessive turnovers turned the UCSB women's basketball team's exhibition game against Czech club team Strakonice into an inter-team battle despite the Gauchos' 46-56 win Sunday night in the Thunderdome.

November 8, 2004

Top-Seeded Gauchos Nudge Northridge

By Cassie Harris

It may have been a breakthrough season for the Gauchos, but the Big West Tournament still packed the same old result. Having secured their first #1 seed last weekend, the Gauchos defeated #4 seed Northridge on Friday, th...

November 8, 2004

#5 Santa Barbara Posts Record 12th Season Shutout

By Kelly Hayes

Nil, love, zero, held scoreless, shut out. However easy it is to put it on paper, it is quite a different matter to ask the UCSB men's soccer team to perform such a task on the field. Yet, perform it did Saturday night, ...

November 8, 2004

M. Tennis: Doubles Teams Excel for UCSB

By Jessica Vrazilek

Finishing its fall season, the UCSB men's tennis team returned home from Los Angeles after competing in the Southern California Intercollegiate Tournament this weekend. With two teams qualifying for the main draw, the Ga...

November 8, 2004

M. Water Polo: Top-Ranked Bruins Wash UCSB

By Suzanne Heibel

After a 16-5 loss against UCLA on Saturday, the UCSB men's water polo team suffered another defeat to Irvine (9-8) on Sunday. Against UCLA, the Gauchos played an exciting game with four steals and six shot blocks from se...

November 8, 2004

Swimming: SB Meets Big Competition

By Kip Hanson

Naptime is for kindergarteners, not the Gaucho swim team. After a full week of hard practice and an early morning drive to Irvine, the UCSB men's and women's swim squads arrived at the Big West Shootout and hardly missed...

November 8, 2004

M. Golf: Santa Barbara Finishes Fifth

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The UCSB men's golf team started off its weekend right Friday, as it shot a collective 854, placing it fifth out of 12 teams at the Del Walker Intercollegiate at the Virginia Country Club in Long Beach.

November 8, 2004

Gauchos Prevail in Final T-Dome Big West Matches

By Monique Moyal

The 19th-ranked UCSB women's volleyball team was sent off in a winning fashion during its final homestand, defeating Idaho in four games Friday and completing a sweep of Utah State on Saturday.

November 8, 2004

M. Lacrosse: UCSB Mauls Mustangs

By Jeremy Fuller

Filling in for All-American Luke Wilson, who is abroad this quarter, sophomore attacker Nick Stratton scored three goals, including a dazzling backhanded shot through traffic, to lead the defending national champion UCSB...

November 5, 2004

UCSB Edges CSULA 56-49 in Exhibition

By Chris Trenchard

It wasn't so much an exhibition as a learning experience. It might not have been pretty to watch, but the UCSB men's basketball team constructed a 56-49 win over Cal State Los Angeles on Thursday night at the Thunderdome...

November 5, 2004

SB Hosts Czech Club Strakonice in Season-Opener

By Lauren Creamer

Gaucho fans will have their first chance to see the UCSB women's basketball team in action this Sunday when Santa Barbara tips off against Czech club team Strakonice at 7 p.m. in the Thunderdome.

November 5, 2004

#5 Santa Barbara Drubs Davis Defense in 2OT

By Jeff Gibson

Goals were as rare as raindrops for the men's soccer team Thursday night at Harden Stadium, as the day's darkened clouds had long since drifted away by game time.

November 5, 2004

M. Lacrosse: Returning National Champs Play at Pit

By Jeremy Fuller

The defending national champion men's club lacrosse team will take the field Saturday for two preseason games in the Fall Ball Tournament at the Pit, near Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.