Sports

February 5, 2004

Is Meningitis A Threat At UCSB?

By Chris Trenchard

As humans, we are unmistakably fragile. Even the strongest of us are susceptible to infection, to injury and to tragedy. Every so often, our frailty catches up with us, or with someone we know, and we can only ask why.

February 4, 2004

Mann Leads Gauchos to Wins

By Matt Faust

When the UCSB women's basketball needed someone to step up and assume the role of leader, junior forward Kristen Mann answered the call. Mann was named Big West Player of the Week and averaged 18 points, eight rebounds a...

February 4, 2004

Baseball: ’04 Santa Barbara Is the Best of the Rest

By Danny MacLeith

In Big West baseball, Titans loom over the competition and 49ers pan most of the gold away from everyone else on the stream, making the Gauchos' pursuit of a conference title all the more elusive. Anyone not named Cal St...

February 4, 2004

W. Water Polo: UCSB Sinks Three

By Jessica Vrazilek

The UCSB women's water polo team started off their season with three wins in a mini-tournament held on Jan. 31. The round robin tournament included four teams: UCSB, Cal State Northridge, UC Irvine and Cal State San Bern...

February 3, 2004

Big Market for Big West Coaches

By Michael Long

The Big West conference, a collection of schools nationally known more for their ideal location than their sports teams, has tried in recent years to expand past its parochial confines to a stature of national recognitio...

February 3, 2004

Swimming: Santa Barbara Splits Versus Tigers in Stockton

By Stephanie Cain

The UCSB men's swimming team once again performed well in undesirable conditions - cold temperatures with 15 mph winds - and defeated rival University of the Pacific while the women's team suffered a heartbreaking loss.

February 3, 2004

Man Named Brady Deserves Due Credit

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

Ok, I forked over the $20 bucks for the Lingerie Bowl. Just call it research. I mean it is football, and I am a sports writer. Just doing my job, right?

February 2, 2004

UCSB Blasts Fullerton

By Michael Long

For the first 20 minutes of play on Saturday night, the UCSB men's basketball team was nearly perfect. The Gauchos drubbed Cal State Fullerton 77-44 at the Thunderdome, holding the Titans to just nine first-half points.

February 2, 2004

Titans Fall to Gauchos’ Defense

By Matt Faust

With a new focus placed on defensive pressure, the UCSB women's basketball team won its fifth straight game with a 67-48 win over Cal State Fullerton on Saturday at Titan Gym.

February 2, 2004

W. Softball: SB Finishes In Third at Tourney

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

This weekend the UCSB softball team hosted its annual Early Bird Tournament, but things didn't go as planned. Finishing in third place out of four teams and winning three of their scheduled six games, the Gauchos faced a...

February 2, 2004

Santa Barbara Falls At The Farm

By Lauren Creamer

The road has not been kind to the UCSB men's volleyball team. In their first trip away from their home court, the #5 Gauchos lost their 3-2 to #8 Stanford Friday night.

January 30, 2004

SB Rolls Over Riverside

By Michael Long

Now, that's more like it. After signaling a team-only meeting on Tuesday to sort out the turnover kinks that plagued the Gauchos in a dreadful 20-point massacre by University of the Pacific on Saturday, the UCSB men's ba...

January 30, 2004

Santa Barbara Drowns Riverside

By Matt Faust

The UCSB women's basketball team has hit its stride and is now on a four-game winning streak after an 88-67 victory over UC Riverside on Thursday night at the Student Recreation Center.

January 30, 2004

Softball Season Preview: Gauchos Kick Off 2004 Season

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

The grass has grown in, the baselines have been marked, and the 2004 UCSB softball team is prepared for its upcoming season.

January 30, 2004

Softball: Gauchos To Invite Three to Early Bird

By Todd Wolfson Staff Writer

Sometimes before the first game of the season, players get nervous and anxious to see how the team will come together.

January 30, 2004

Tigers Romp Listless Santa Barbara

By Lauren Creamer

Away from the comfort of Rob Gym for the first time this season, the UCSB men's volleyball team fell to University of the Pacific 3-1 in Stockton last night. "We didn't play a very good match," Head Coach Kenny Preston s...