University of California, Santa Barbara News

Five home runs powered the University of Hawaii softball team to an 11-9 win over UC Santa Barbara in the first game of today's Big West doubleheader at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.

Cal Poly senior John Prader broke a 16-year-old record after clearing 18 feet, 7 inches in the men's pole vault in a Big West Conference dual meet against UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.

The eighth-ranked San Diego State women's water polo team will head into the Big West Water Polo Tournament this weekend as the field's No.

Third-ranked UC Irvine won a very close match Saturday night by winning the first and the final two sets to defeat seventh-ranked UC Santa Barbara 3-2 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation quarterfinal match at the Bren Events Center.

Junior shortstop Michael Hill hit his third home run of the season, a two-run blast, and the first of two in a row for Long Beach State, but host UC Santa Barbara again rallied against the Dirtbags for a 5-4 win Saturday.

The UC Irvine men's volleyball team made the preliminary Final Four on Saturday, topping a revved-up UC Santa Barbara , 26-24, 22-25, 20-25, 25-19, 15-10, in the quarterfinals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament at the Bren Events Center.

UC Irvine senior Kevin Tillie and sophomore Michael Brinkley have been named first-team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation to lead four Anteaters recognized by men's volleyball coaches.

Between the sunny oceanside weather, an aesthetically pleasing campus and a solid academic reputation, Alex Hart already had ample reason to lean towards the University of California-Santa Barbara.