Sports

May 28, 2004

15 Gauchos Set For Regionals

By system

May 27, 2004

Track and Field: White Sets Pace for Gaucho Track

By Jessica Vrazilek

This year the cross country and track and field programs will have one of their top runners graduate - senior distance runner Chris White. "Every year you have someone graduate that you know you cannot replace," cross co...

May 27, 2004

Baseball: Malec Tops List of Potential SB Draftees

By Danny MacLeith

You've just been offered a large amount of money to walk away from college and do what you've dreamed of doing since you were hitting off a tee. Take the money and run! No-brainer, right?

May 27, 2004

Surf Column: A Ride to Ride

By Mathis Riley

Mexico is right there. It doesn't take any planning, all you need is a car, some cash for gas and time. The further south you can go, the warmer the water, the thinner the crowds and the cheaper the beer.

May 26, 2004

UCSB Claims Fourth-Straight Commissioner’s Cup

By Lauren Creamer

UCSB is the best in the Big West. Santa Barbara earned its fourth consecutive Big West Conference Commissioner's Cup, recognizing its overall dominance in league competition for the 2003-04 academic year.

May 26, 2004

Redshirting Produces Prepared Athletes

By Sean Swaby

To redshirt, or not to redshirt. That is the question that perplexes NCAA coaches and players. The system in which the NCAA has the power to save collegiate athletes a year of eligibility to hone their undeveloped skills...

May 25, 2004

Softball: Bright Future in Store for UCSB

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

You should always look at the bright side of things. Yes, the UCSB softball team (32-31) ended its postseason play with two quick losses, but the team's accomplishments over the course of the season are astonishing.

May 25, 2004

Sports Column: Hazing the Aggies

By Chris Trenchard

Overpopulation knows no boundaries. Just look around. People are everywhere, and our spot on the globe isn't even close to the worst case. It seems discouraging: humans lurking in every nook and cranny, taking our jobs, ...

May 25, 2004

Baseball: SB Season a Success Despite Playoff Miss

By Chris Trenchard

Another year came and another year went at the at the Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, and all-in-all, the year was punctuated more by successes than failures.

May 24, 2004

Baseball: Gauchos Dawdle to Finish Line

By Danny MacLeith

Every inning of every baseball game this season was meaningful in the Gauchos' quest for a postseason berth, but a few bad ones strung together Sunday at Cal Poly made the top of the ninth inning the last one in 2004.

May 24, 2004

The True Kings of Basketball

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

We may say "dude" too many times. We may act like typical surfers. But here in sunny Southern California we do one thing -- we win. Despite adversity from every which way, the Los Angeles Lakers have closed the mouths of...

May 24, 2004

Big West Round-up: Fullerton Seizes Big West Championship

By Nexus Staff Report

The biggest rivalry in college baseball yielded the Big West Champion again, and for the second year in a row, in dramatic fashion. Cal State Fullerton (#22) clinched the Big West title this weekend with a series sweep o...

May 21, 2004

Santa Barbara Devoured in Desert

By Chris Trenchard

Just like that, the dream is over. In the first day of the NCAA Regionals, the Santa Barbara softball team was bounced from the Tucson Tournament after an opening round loss to Northwestern 8-1 and a consolation bracket ...

May 21, 2004

Final Weekend Looms Large for Santa Barbara

By Danny MacLeith

The Big West race is entering its final leg, and because the battle is for third place, the Gauchos (32-19 overall, 9-9 in the Big West) have to worry about gaining on UC Riverside (10-8) while keeping UC Irvine (8-10) a...

May 20, 2004

Softball: SB Faces Wildcats in Tucson

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

After 20 years of anonymity in the collegiate softball world, Santa Barbara now has the chance to be a no-namer no more. In just her third year, Head Coach Kristy Schroeder has catapulted the Gauchos into the NCAA Region...

May 20, 2004

Rowing: Santa Barbara Ends Season in the Fast Lane

By Kelly Hayes

Over the past three weeks, the Gaucho men's and women's crew teams finished out their spring seasons by competing against some of the best crew teams in the nation.