Sports

Baseball: Gauchos Resume Big West Action

For UCSB baseball, the real season starts this weekend. Despite facing the likes of nonconference opponents UCLA, USC and Washington, the Gauchos' challenge is only ahead of them.
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MPSF Playoffs Arrive

The #7 UCSB men's volleyball team is anticipating a match of such proportions Saturday against #6 Brigham Young in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament Quarterfinals. Though the stakes ma...
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M.Tennis: Santa Barbara Seeks Return to Big West Glory

The UCSB men's tennis team will write what it hopes is not the final chapter in a long, winding season this weekend at the Big West Championships in Indian Wells, Calif.
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W.Tennis: #2 Seeded UCSB Thinking Big in Championships

A conference championship, an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament and a little bit of respect are all at stake for the resurging UCSB women's tennis team this weekend at the Big West Tournament.
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Softball: SB Rides to Pacific on Win Streak

As she gets closer to the end of her senior year and her best offensive season with UCSB, senior first base Lindsey Herrin and the rest of the Gaucho softball team look to continue its five-game win s...
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Track and Field: Santa Barbara Treks to Fresno for Mellow Meet

Like most things in Fresno, the Cal-Nevada Championships has become a lackluster spectacle, but the UCSB track and field team will be heading there this weekend to fine-tune its skills.
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W.Water Polo: Gauchos to Host Long Beach State, Loyola Marymount

The UCSB men's tennis team will write what it hopes is not the final chapter in a long, winding season this weekend at the Big West Championships in Indian Wells, Calif.
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Gaucho Brings New Meaning to Baseball

In the day-to-day life of going through the motions, it's not often that a college student has a chance to educate his colleagues. If one is so privileged, it's rare that any of it ever actually hits ...
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Libero Sets the Bar for Getting Low.

Aaron Mansfield knows how to get low. The senior libero out of Sunnyvale, Calif., has amassed 987 career digs to secure his spot atop the UCSB men's volleyball career list by besting Assistant Coach T...
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Baseball: Trojans Stampede Santa Barbara 8-2

If nothing else, UCSB baseball can take relief in the fact that a certain combination of three letters appears nowhere else in the rest of its schedule. USC took advantage of the shorthanded Gauchos (...
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Surf Column: Wave Training

When I woke up this morning I was hit with a sad and scary realization: I'm not 16 anymore. Not that I'm old by any means, but my body used to be made of rubber. This past weekend, however, made me re...
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Tennis: Gauchos Bulldoze Westmont en Route to Big West Tourney

Simply put, they are ready. The UCSB (10-12 overall, 3-1 in the Big West) men's tennis team ended the regular season with a dominating 7-0 sweep of Westmont. The Gauchos have won three games in the la...
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Men’s Water Polo: UCSB Goes Wacko For Wigo

The rest of the men's water polo teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation might be feeling like Little Red Riding Hood because the Big Bad Wolf is coming to Santa Barbara.
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Women’s Tennis: UCSB Falls to Sac State, Douses Davis

The UCSB women's tennis team split a pair of nonconference matches this weekend in preparation for the all-important Big West Tournament, which kicks off later this week.
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Baseball: Ailing Gauchos Try To Sweep #22 USC Tonight

In a time of uncertainty, a familiar opponent may be exactly the thing the UCSB baseball team needs. On the other hand, that opponent is nationally ranked USC.
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