Sports

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.

April 26, 2004

Softball: UCSB Wins One in SLO Series, Drops Last Two

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

Just when things were going great and the UCSB softball team (25-26 overall, 7-4 in the Big West) was on a seven-game winning streak, things drastically took a turn for the worse.

April 26, 2004

Men’s Tennis: Pacific Upsets UCSB in Playoffs

By Sean Swaby

The UCSB men's tennis team avenged their only conference loss of the season with a victory in the Big West semifinals over Cal Poly 4-2.

April 26, 2004

Women’s Tennis: Gauchos Place Seventh in Big West Tournament

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

The UCSB women's tennis team was down but not out Friday after losing their first match of the Big West Championships 4-2 in Indian Wells, Calif.

April 26, 2004

Santa Barbara Bites Dust at Pyramid

By Lauren Creamer

The Beach's current was too strong for the #7 UCSB men's volleyball team this weekend. Santa Barbara allowed #2 Long Beach State to pull the Gauchos to a 3-0 loss in the first round of Mountain Pacific Sports Federation ...

April 23, 2004

Bush Bums Gear Up for Titan Outfield

By Danny MacLeith

The balmy Santa Barbara afternoon is pierced by the mocking voices of the Bush Bums, Caesar Uyesaka Stadium's very own group of heckling homers perched out behind the right center field fence.

April 23, 2004

Gauchos Host Poly

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

If there was a specific time in the season for a team to catch fire, the UCSB softball team (24-24, 6-2) chose the right time to do it. Gauchos will host Cal Poly (15-23, 3-6) this weekend, in a three-game series in part...