Sports

May 1, 2002

Sports Column: For This Team, It’s All About Ex-Acting Success on Field

By John Liu

Ex-Presidents fans are grumbling after their team has again opened the 2002 intramural coed softball season with three consecutive losses. Expectations had been high for the team this season.

May 1, 2002

Women’s Water Polo: UCSB Looks Forward to 2003

By Eliot Biggert

As another UCSB women's water polo season comes to a close, many questions remain unanswered concerning a team that won its first seven games, but dropped 11 of its last 16.

May 1, 2002

Sports Feature Photo: Give Me Some Skin

By Staff

Freshman slugger Matt Wilkerson broke the UCSB freshman record for home runs after he smoked his 14th of the season against UCLA on Tuesday afternoon.

April 30, 2002

Track and Field: SB Runs for More Records

By John Liu

The UCSB men's and women's track and field teams proved something this past weekend at the UC San Diego Invitational: the Gauchos are getting faster.

April 30, 2002

Baseball: Trouble ‘a Bruin: Gauchos Host UCLA Today

By Josh Tosney

The Gauchos hope to continue their winning ways today against the visiting Bruins at 2 p.m. in Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.

April 30, 2002

Women’s Water Polo: Santa Barbara Settles for Tenth at MPSF Playoffs

By Eliot Biggert

Santa Barbara finishes its season with a record of 17-17 and a few places shy of where it expected to finish.

April 26, 2002

Men’s Tennis: Gauchos Strut to League Title

By Michael Long

The UCSB men's tennis team swept past Idaho and the University of the Pacific to clinch the 2002 Big West Conference Championship. The Gauchos emphatically destroyed the Tigers 4-0 at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club on Sat...

April 26, 2002

Rainbows Light Up UCSB

By Michael Long

The UCSB men's volleyball team's magical season concluded Thursday at Pepperdine in the Final Four of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament.

April 26, 2002

Softball: Let’s Make Eight a Date: SB Rolls

By Clancy Roberts

The UCSB softball team brought out the brooms for a second straight weekend, sweeping the visiting Utah State Aggies to bring its winning streak to an eight-game toll.

April 26, 2002

Appelbaum on Sports: Put a Cork In It, Joey: Vizquel Rings His Belle

By Eliav Appelbaum

I don't think Albert Belle will be attending any social functions with Omar Vizquel any time soon. No baby showers for little Joey to tear into one of his patented temper tantrums.

April 26, 2002

Women’s Tennis: UCSB Falls to Niners in Big West Tourney

By Noah Frank

The UCSB women's tennis team competed in the Big West Tournament at Ojai where it defeated 10th-seeded Riverside 5-2 on Thursday before falling to second-seeded Long Beach State 4-1 on Friday.

April 26, 2002

Baseball: Warriors Succumb to Santa Barbara’s Might

By Josh Tosney

After a frustrating 11-7 loss against No. 23 USC on Wednesday, the Gauchos revived themselves and buried their five-game losing streak by euthanizing Westmont College 14-3 on Thursday.

April 26, 2002

Baseball: Hoopsters Ink ISU Transfer for 2003-04

By Staff

The UCSB women's basketball team signed former Iowa State University center Kate Bauman to a scholarship last Friday. Bauman, a 6'6" interior player, has two years of eligibility remaining.

April 24, 2002

Men’s Tennis: Gauchos Waste Westmont

By Michael Long

Only pride was at stake in Tuesday's match between the UCSB men's tennis team and Westmont. The winner claimed Santa Barbara-Montecito bragging rights and personal gratification in the offseason.

April 24, 2002