Sports

May 3, 2004

Baseball: SB Sweeps #4 Long Beach State

By Danny MacLeith

The top two teams in the Big West have four losses between them at the halfway point in conference play. The Gauchos (27-17, 5-7 in the Big West) earned them all, taking three games from #4 Long Beach State (30-12, 9-3 i...

May 3, 2004

Boxing: Frenchman Steals Show at Fight Night

By Chris Trenchard

It's official. Nothing brings people together like sex and violence. Pi Kappa Alpha's Fight Night brought challengers from all over California - and one from France that ended up stealing the show - save the crowd-pleasi...

May 3, 2004

Women’s Water Polo: SB Captures Seventh in MPSF Tournament

By Kelly Hayes

Santa Barbara's women's water polo team left everything in the pool this weekend at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship tournament. The Gauchos closed out their season with a 2-2 record in the tournament,...

May 3, 2004

Softball: Gauchos Sweep Utah State in Must-Win Series

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

The place was getting a little dusty at Campus Diamond, so the UCSB softball team (28-26 overall, 10-4 in the Big West) brought out their brooms and swept the weekend series.

April 30, 2004

Baseball: UCSB Braces for Aces

By Danny MacLeith

The Gauchos face the top pitching team in the conference in a three-game set beginning tonight at 6:30 against 49er junior Jered Weaver, the best pitcher in the country and the incumbent for National Player of the Year.

April 30, 2004

Softball: Gauchos To Host Aggies

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

In a tough division where two teams will likely make regionals, the UCSB softball team (25-26, 7-4) will have to get through Utah State (7-35, 3-9). The Utah women may look like a mice on paper, but they will play like m...

April 30, 2004

Track and Field: Invites Loom Large for Santa Barbara Track

By Kelly Hayes

UCSB track and field is looking for everything to work out in the long run, especially in the 800-meter,500-meter and 4x400 relay. The Gauchos will get their chance this weekend.

April 29, 2004

Cycling: Gauchos Ride Down Stretch

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

All you need is love - a love for cycling that is, and that is something the UCSB cycling team has a lot of. Love coupled with hard work has brought the team a long way this year. The Gauchos started out the season with...

April 29, 2004

W. Water Polo: Santa Barbara Preps for MPSF Tournament

By Kelly Hayes

For the second time in two weeks, UCSB women's water polo will face off against conference opponent San Jose State. This time, the Spartans and Gauchos will be battling to keep their respective seasons alive in the first...

April 28, 2004

Men’s Lacrosse: Santa Barbara Trounces Tigers in WCLL Tourney

By Sean Swaby

Last Saturday, the UCSB men's lacrosse team came down with a case of d

April 28, 2004

Tennis: Gauchos Earn All-Big West Honors

By Sean Swaby

Hard work always pays off. With the completion of both the UCSB men's and women's tennis team's seasons, the All-Big West Conference teams were announced on Tuesday.

April 27, 2004

Men’s Rugby: Season Ends on Sweet Note for Tough Gauchos

By Jessica Vrazilek

Out of over 500 competing teams, the UCSB men's rugby team earned the 16th spot in the nation when it traveled to West Point Military Academy to compete in the Sweet 16 national tournament.

April 27, 2004

Women’s Water Polo: SB Drowns Long Beach in Overtime

By Kelly Hayes

The Santa Barbara women's water polo team (14-14, 4-7 in the MPSF) was looking for a strong finish to the regular season in preparation for this week's Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship Tournament, and a st...

April 27, 2004

Santa Barbara Signs Seven Top Recruits for New Roster

By Lauren Creamer

Head Coach Paul Stumpf has signed seven new recruits to National Letters of Intent for the 2004 UCSB women's soccer team. Coming off a 2003 second-place finish in the Big West, the Gauchos secured three defenders, two fo...

April 26, 2004

Baseball: Gauchos Surprise Titans

By Chris Trenchard

After two good old-fashioned spankings and seemingly in the midst of another, the UCSB baseball team put a halt to #30 Fullerton's reign of dominance and backhanded the Titans by way of an eight-run eighth inning Sunday ...

April 26, 2004

Track and Field: Women Run Over Mustangs

By Stephanie Cain

The UCSB women's track team triumphed again, this time against rival Cal Poly. The Mustangs lost to the Gauchos 101-95, but the men were not powerful enough to overcome Cal Poly and lost 117-77.