Sports

Men’s Water Polo: Gauchos Top Irvine to Finish Season in MPSF Tournament

The season ended for the UCSB men's water polo Sunday with a 5-4 victory over Irvine at Cal's Speiker Pool. The win gave the Gauchos (9-13, 2-6 MPSF) a seventh-place finish in the season.
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Santa Barbara Draws USD in First Round of NCAA Tournament; LBSU Lurks in Round Two

Monday afternoon the NCAA released the official bracket for the 2001 NCAA Championships, and the result was everything that the Gauchos could have wanted and more.
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Wildcats Snare Gauchos

The weekend was not a complete loss for the Gauchos (17-12 overall), as they posted a win over unranked San Diego State on Friday night before succumbing on Saturday night to one of the most potent of...
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From the Cheap Seats: Buffalo Struggles Along as Former GM Butler Thrives

Once a proud franchise and the AFC representative in four consecutive Super Bowls during the early '90s, the Buffalo Bills are now the owners of an abysmal 1-9 record, their worst start in 17 years.
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Dons Feels the (Ful)love in Santa Barbara Victory

The UCSB men's basketball team improved to 2-0 on its young season this weekend with a decisive 69-49 win over the University of San Francisco on Saturday.
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UCSB Comes Up Short

Despite a spirited second-half comeback, UCSB's cold-shooting first half proved too much to overcome, as the Gauchos fell 76-73 to drop to 1-2 on the season.
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Santa Barbara Soars Over Northridge on Senior Day

Friday night the Gauchos lost their chance to secure second place outright in the Big West by dropping a four-game match to the Pacific.
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Cross Country: Gauchos Fare Well in NCAA’s

The UCSB men's cross country team finished 17th out of 31 teams at the NCAA National Championships at Furman University, in South Carolina, in the Gauchos' first ever NCAA appearance.
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Combs Steps Down From UCSB Roster

The good news came in the form of sophomore center Lindsay Taylor being named Big West Player of the Week The bad news was when sophomore forward Jessica Combs abruptly decided to leave the team in or...
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Men’s Water Polo: Anteaters Cruise Past Santa Barbara

The Gauchos were soundly defeated 10-4 by UC Irvine on Sunday. The match was billed as Santa Barbara's warm-up for this Friday's first-round contest against UCLA.
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Men and Women’s Swimming: Gauchos Whip CSUN in Road Meets; Dalonzo Shines

A team's performance often declines when it swims against inferior teams. But for the UCSB men's and women's swim teams, that was not the case.
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Santa Barbara Escapes From Scrappy Westmont; Williams Claims First-Season Opener

After never beginning a season on the right foot in three previous openers, UCSB men's basketball Head Coach Bob Williams finally secured his first opening game victory.
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UCSB: Best in Big West

If Friday night was orgasmic, Sunday was a kick in the crotch. On its first game of the weekend, the UCSB men's soccer team vanquished second-place Irvine 2-0 to clinch the Big West Title.
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Gauchos Whip WKU in Debut, Fall to #9 Stanford

Playing on consecutive nights to open the season, the UCSB women's basketball team came out with a bang in a 90-78 victory against Western Kentucky.
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Hey, Irvine: Here We Come

The strategy is simple - at least in the words of UCSB men's soccer Assistant Coach Rick Barker it is."Score one more than they do."
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