Sports

October 1, 2004

Battle of Beach Resumes Tonight

By Kelly Hayes

The fall 2004 chapter of the "Battle of the Beach" will begin tonight at Harder Stadium, where the UCSB women's soccer team plays host to Long Beach State at 7. Santa Barbara (5-4-1 overall) enters tonight's game having...

October 1, 2004

Gauchos Set to Spike in Thunderdome

By Matthew Boelk

At 7 tonight, the Gaucho women's volleyball team will break in the newly resurfaced Thunderdome floor for competition against longtime conference rival Pacific and give students their first opportunity to see the squad, ...

October 1, 2004

Top-Ranked Gauchos Venture To Don-Land

By Sean Swaby

Eight done. Nine: Dons. The Gauchos take their eight-game winning streak up north to the University of San Francisco with hopes of extending it to nine tonight.

October 1, 2004

NorCal Tournament Lures Best in Nation, UCSB

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

There will be "hella" games played in Stockton this weekend when 20 of the top men's water polo teams in the country gather for the Northern California Tournament.

September 30, 2004

SB Emerges With Fresh Faces

By Jessica Vrazilek

As is customary in collegiate sports, the old must go out just as the new must come in. What makes or breaks the team, though, is how the new make up for the loss of the old.

September 30, 2004

Santa Barbara Shoots for Team Cohesion off Course

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The UCSB men's golf team got back into the swing of things this week by competing in its first tournament of the season at the Pacific Invitational in Stockton on Monday and Tuesday.

September 29, 2004

Nation Agrees, Gauchos No. 1

By Chris Trenchard

As of Tuesday, the Gauchos are by consensus the #1 team as the NSCAA/Adidas Coaches' Poll, the NCAA's chief team-ranking poll, tabbed them tops in the land, following in suit with Soccer Times, Soccer America and College...

September 29, 2004

Fresh Blood Fuels Santa Barbara Footballers

By Kelly Hayes

The past four years have seen the Gauchos lose the Big West Conference championship in the last weekend of the season. This year, however, UCSB is heading into its conference season with a new depth to its team and new f...

September 29, 2004

Intramurals Looming for the Learned

By Stephanie Cain

UCSB offers a variety of 19 intramural sports with something for everyone.Intramural sports only require an hour a week for competition, and no experience is necessary. Each team only practices as much as its members dec...

September 29, 2004

Surf Column: The Ranch

By Mathis Riley

I want to start by stating that I am not giving anything away. Don't bother sending your angry letters accusing me of exposing secret spots, because the Ranch is not a secret spot. A huge chunk of pristine coastline stre...

September 28, 2004

Women

By Stephanie Cain

The Gauchos have the talent, experience and dedication to do better than any UCSB cross country team in history. Last year, the team was ranked 29th in the nation, the highest ranking ever for UCSB women's cross country.

September 28, 2004

Men

By Stephanie Cain

UCSB men's cross country emerges this year as a new team with a fresh look. The team may lack experience, but not grit. After a stroke of luck, senior Jeff Gardina will return this season as the Gauchos' top runner.

September 28, 2004

Men

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The season goal of the UCSB men's water polo team is threefold: win, win, win. But it's taking it one game at a time. The Gauchos are off to a great start in the 2004 season with a 10-4 record, bolstered this weekend by ...

September 27, 2004

#1 UCSB Upends UNLV

By Sean Swaby

Twenty minutes into UCSB's game against University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the game was scoreless. Three minutes later, the score was 3-0. It took the Gaucho men's soccer team only three minutes and three shots to turn a s...

September 27, 2004

#8 Gauchos Stay Perfect

By Danny MacLeith

Playing for the first time in 10 days, the #8 UCSB women's volleyball team shook off the dust with a 30-25, 30-25, 28-30, 30-19 beating of Riverside Friday night, then demolished the Titans in a 30-28, 30-19, 30-19 match...

September 27, 2004

Santa Barbara, S.D. State Settle for Tie

By Kelly Hayes

The fog was thick at Harder Stadium this weekend, but the minds of the UCSB women's soccer players were clear. Their goal: a strong preseason finish going into Big West Conference play next week.