UC Santa Barbara Gauchos

James Ennis was like the fifth Beatle on last season's Long Beach State basketball team, a back-beat junior in a Fab Four senior lineup led by lead slinger Casper Ware. Ennis, they say, was the quiet one as the 49ers swept through the Big West...

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...

IRVINE — 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...

WOMEN'S GOLF Big West Championships SAN LUIS OBISPO — Junior Ronnie Valerio finished tied for fifth and senior Michelle Park tied for seventh in the event completed Tuesday at San Luis Obispo Golf and Country Club. The Anteaters had a 54-hole...

BASEBALL Pacific 14, UC Irvine 13 STOCKTON — Sophomore third baseman Taylor Sparks went five for five to lead eight Anteaters with multiple hits in the Big West Conference game on Saturday. But a nine-run fourth inning for the host Tigers (10-...

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. Juniors Collin Mehring and Scott Kevorken were second-team...

IRVINE — Taylor Sparks has been more explosion than ignition lately for the UC Irvine baseball team's offense. But it was perhaps his least impressive hit of late that proved to be the difference in the Anteaters' 4-3 triumph in 11 innings over...