UC Santa Barbara Gauchos

UC Irvine sophomore third baseman Taylor Sparks has been named Co-Field Player of the Year in the Big West Conference for baseball. Sparks hit .422 with seven home runs and 32 runs batted in in 27 conference games, leading all Big West batsmen in all...

IRVINE — The offense is producing in bunches and the pitching is more than holding its own. But with one game left in the regular season, the UC Irvine baseball program may be on the verge of an eight-month break. Despite an 8-4 win that...

IRVINE — The UC Irvine baseball team dug itself out of a hole by peppering singles through them Thursday night. The Anteaters broke a five-game losing streak, their longest in nine seasons, by spraying 16 hits in a 10-2 Big West Conference victory...

The following are updates on area athletes at the collegiate level. Erin Ashby (Crescenta Valley High, 2011) Stanford softball sophomore: Despite a performance in which Ashby drove in a pair of runs and tallied a pair of hits, Stanford stumbled against...

FULLERTON – For the third straight game, Cal State Fullerton fifth-year senior Carlos Lopez erased a UC Irvine lead to produce a dramatic baseball victory for the Titans. Turns out, it was Lopez who also got away from the Anteaters. "It's pretty...

FULLERTON — Two pitches after he nearly swung out of his shoes, Cal State Fullerton senior Carlos Lopez left visiting UC Irvine on the field, stunned in their tracks. Lopez launched a 1-1 split-finger fastball off a banner about 10 feet over the...

IRVINE — Six days after undergoing unexpected root canal surgery, UC Irvine junior pitcher Andrew Morales made the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo hitters experience roughly the equivalent of a trip to the dentist. Morales, recorded 10 of his first 12...

IRVINE — Perhaps it was a case of retrospective remorse. For, one day after it stole home in a 7-1 victory over visiting Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the UC Irvine baseball team appeared intent on giving back. In any event, three UCI errors led to...

IRVINE — The first cut has, in fact, been deep enough to propel the UC Irvine baseball team into the upper echelon of the Big West Conference in recent years. After junior Andrew Thurman threw a complete-game four-hitter to fuel a 7-1 victory over...

UC Irvine junior attacker Hannah Croghan and sophomore goalie Jillian Yocum were named first-team All-Big West Conference in women's water polo. UCI was represented on the second team by junior defender Hillary Estrada and senior center Kelsey Klatt....

BASEBALL UC Santa Barbara 7, UC Irvine 6 SANTA BARBARA — Senior closer Race Parmenter let a 6-4 lead get away in the ninth inning as the host Gauchos capped a three-run inning with a two-run, walk-off home run by Joey Epperson to claim the...

BASEBALL Southern California playoffs SAN MARCOS — Orange Coast College began Saturday with a 5-2 win over Palomar, but then lost, 1-0, and missed on its bid to reach Super Regional round after losing a best-of-three regional in the California...