Sports

January 8, 2004

Santa Barbara Searches Slopes for Win

By Matt Faust

For 0-2 Utah State, timing couldn't be worse for the eight-consecutive Big West champion Gauchos to come to town.

January 8, 2004

M. and W. Sailing: Come Sail Away With the Gaucho Seamen

By Jonathan Tu

Santa Barbara will begin the second half of the season with a visit to Hawaii as one of the many West Coast teams at the Rainbow Invitational on Jan. 17-18.

January 7, 2004

Gauchos Overpower Quincy

By Lauren Creamer

Two hours after the first ball was served, the UCSB men's volleyball team walked out of Rob Gym victorious, defeating Quincy 3-1 on Tuesday night. The Gauchos, now undefeated after their first contest of the season, drop...

January 7, 2004

Moral or Morale?

By Adrian Spinelli

Following a 38-21 victory over the San Diego Chargers, Packers Head Coach Mike Sherman invited in a veteran from the war in Iraq, whose war scars limited him to a wheelchair and gave him a new prosthetic arm.

January 5, 2004

Gauchos Stunned by Beach

By Michael Long

he UCSB men's basketball team, favored by both the coaches and media in preseason polls to win the Big West Championship, blew a 21-point lead in the final 17 minutes of the second half in the conference opener at Long B...

January 5, 2004

Santa Barbara Stuffs ‘Eaters

By Matt Faust

Down 5-0 against 1-9 Irvine, the UCSB women's basketball needed an answer. They found one in senior forward Lisa Willett. Willett scored the Gauchos' first eight points en route to a 20-point performance that included fo...

January 5, 2004

LBSU Out-Manned at Thunderdome

By Matt Faust

With the UCSB women's basketball team stumbling during Winter Break, Long Beach State hoped to catch the Gauchos off-guard and steal a win in the Big West Conference opener on Saturday. Santa Barbara wasn't buying it.

January 5, 2004

Santa Barbara Stuffs ‘Eaters

By Michael Long

The Gauchos (7-4, 1-1 in the Big West) slid past rival Irvine 84-77 at the Bren Events Center, one of the toughest places for visiting opponents to win basketball games in the Big West.

January 5, 2004

Bruinville Gets Gaucho Love

By Michael Long

WESTWOOD - After upsetting UCLA on its home floor on Dec. 16, Gaucho fans began making reservations to the NCAA's Final Four in San Antonio, Texas.

January 5, 2004

Gauchos Begin 2004 Season Against Quincy

By Lauren Creamer

To open its 2004 season, the UCSB men's volleyball team will host Quincy tonight at 7:05 at Rob Gym. The match will be the third contest of the academic year for the Gauchos, who split two matches with Pepperdine on Oct....

December 4, 2003

Cook Serves Up Win

By Michael Long

The UCSB men's basketball team cooked Pepperdine 65-62 on a sizzling three-point game-winning dagger by junior forward Casey Cook. The Gauchos, rallying from four down with 1:33 to play, won their season opener on Wednes...

December 4, 2003

Gauchos Go Sour in Sweet 16

By Chris Trenchard

In a season resembling a jagged heart rate monitor, it was only appropriate the 2003 UCSB men's soccer team's inaugural Sweet 16 game against St. John's University was filled with emotional peaks and valleys.

December 4, 2003

UCSB Travels to Frozen Tundra

By Danny MacLeith

#20 Santa Barbara (19-8, 14-4 in the Big West) has been invited to its 23rd consecutive NCAA Tournament, but the selection committee gave the Gauchos the cold shoulder, shipping them off to Minneapolis for first- and sec...

December 4, 2003

#15 Santa Barbara Sinks Illini

By Matt Faust

The #15 UCSB women's basketball team has found a knack for making games exciting. Led by senior center Lindsay Taylor's 20 points, the Gauchos rallied from eight points down, with 15 minutes to go, to defeat Illinois 70-...

November 26, 2003

SB Swallows Wildcats

By Matt Faust

For the first ten minutes of the game, the UCSB women's basketball team's 25-game home win streak looked as if it was going to end against #21 Arizona. For the next 30 minutes, the Gauchos looked as if they weren't going...

November 26, 2003

UCSB Finds Home on the Range

By Michael Long

Sometimes winning the first one is the hardest. After dropping the University of Hawaii in its season opener last weekend, the UCSB men's basketball team will try to win on the road again over Thanksgiving weekend in Mis...