Sports

October 18, 2004

UCSB Survives Mustangs

By Sean Lewis

Streaking fans and controversial officiating weren't distracting enough to prevent the UCSB women's soccer team from turning in a defensive gem en route to a 0-0 tie at Cal Poly to finish up its three-game road trip.

October 15, 2004

Big West Title on Line for SB

By Lauren Creamer

If one weekend could cost the #19 UCSB women's volleyball team its third consecutive Big West Championship, this is it. Big West powerhouses Irvine and Long Beach State will raid the Thunderdome on Friday and Saturday, r...

October 15, 2004

UCSB Hungers for Victory

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The teams are circling like sharks in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, each hungering for a victory, and the #5 UCSB men's water polo team smells like blood.

October 15, 2004

Gauchos Look for Revenge in San Luis Obispo

By Kip Hanson

First-place Santa Barbara will finally have its chance to avenge a 2-0 loss to its rival Mustangs last November in the Big West Tournament finals that sent Cal Poly on to the NCAA Tournament and the Gauchos home for the ...

October 15, 2004

SB Heads East for NCAA Pre-Nationals in Indiana

By Stephanie Cain

All of the hard work, training and preparation has come down to this. The competition will heat up for the UCSB men's and #15 women's cross country teams in Indiana this Saturday when they compete in the NCAA Pre-Nationa...

October 15, 2004

D-Day Arrives for Santa Barbara

By Kelly Hayes

Midterms are quickly approaching and, even with its #1 national ranking, the UCSB men's soccer team is not going to get off the hook. The Gauchos are studying hard for a big test, traveling to Northridge, where UCSB has ...

October 14, 2004

Let The Learning Begin…

By Sean Swaby

The UCSB men's basketball team just defeated the best team in the nation. Now, wait a few seconds and let that sink in. So maybe that wasn't this year but 14 years ago, something magical happened in the Thunderdome.

October 14, 2004

UCSB Makes Nihilists Out of Riverside

By Chris Trenchard

In a cakewalk, you can't lose unless you don't put one foot in front of the other. Thus far in Big West play, the #1 UCSB Men's Soccer Team (11-0-1 overall, 4-0-0 Big West) has stayed the course.

October 14, 2004

Santa Barbara Sweeps Singles and Doubles

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The UCSB women's tennis team brought out the brooms this weekend, sweeping both singles and doubles championships at the Cal State Fullerton Fall Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament.

October 14, 2004

Extra Credit

By Danny MacLeith

Remember to thank your supreme being, lucky stars, whomever or whatever you show gratitude toward that we don't have to go to class twice as much when our grades start slipping.

October 14, 2004

AVP Pays Visit to Santa Barbara Beaches

By Lauren Creamer

Bud Light will flow, music will blare and a host of locals, including 2004 Athens Olympian Dax Holdren, will compete in the AVP Santa Barbara Invitational presented by Bud Light this Saturday and Sunday in downtown Santa...

October 13, 2004

Gaucho Neglects Sweet Tooth For Taste of Sweet Victory

By Matthew Boelk

Olivia Waldowski of the UCSB women's volleyball team is anything but an average student athlete. Not just because she stands at 6'3" and is the reigning Big West Freshman of the Year, or even that she is a math major. Wh...

October 13, 2004

SB Scorer Threatens Riverside Defense

By Chris Trenchard

In his first year playing for the UCSB men's soccer team, Drew McAthy would let the game come to him, to the dismay of his coaches. As an attacking midfielder, he was awkwardly patient, and Vom Steeg, being the apparent ...

October 12, 2004

The Thin Line Between Tradition and Hazing

By Michael Long

In the world of collegiate athletics, the activities that go on during a team's "rookie party" can only be defined as, well, hazy. At the heart of the initiation process lies conflict.

October 12, 2004

Men’s Club Soccer: SB Stymies San Diego State

By Tyler Vickers

The UCSB men's club soccer team remains undefeated after two more wins, against San Diego State University and UC San Diego, this past weekend.

October 11, 2004

SB Drowns Titans in Second Half

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

Another game, another victory for the #5 UCSB men's water polo team (14-5) with an 8-4 defeat over #6 UC San Diego (16-7) in front of a large crowd at Campus Pool on Friday afternoon.