Author Archives: Ben Azar

Last season, the UCLA softball team entered the postseason as an underdog after an inconsistent regular season. This year, the Bruins couldn’t have been more consistent, and as a result will begin postseason play as favorites. Despite dropping two games to Stanford over the weekend, The Bruins (43-7, 15-5 Pac-10) were given the No. 1 […]

Last year, the UCLA softball team struggled all regular season long and had to settle for a fifth-place tie in the Pac-10 heading into the NCAA Regionals. This year, with two more games remaining in the regular season, the Bruins are in a much better position. They have locked up the Pac-10 title. By virtue […]

When the UCLA softball team travels to take on California today and Stanford on Friday and Saturday, it still has to put the finishing touches on a conference title. With just one win, the No. 1 Bruins would clinch the Pac-10 title outright. The Bruins have not finished first in the Pac-10 since 2002, despite […]

As the regular season comes to an end, the UCLA softball team couldn’t possibly be in better shape. The team is 42-5, ranked No. 1 in the nation, and sits comfortably atop the Pac-10 standings with three more games left to play. All of this in a team that has a nearly identical makeup to […]

In recent years, there’s been something about traveling to Oregon that has brought out the worst in the UCLA softball team. Last year when the Bruins made the trip up north they dropped a game to Oregon State and were swept by a mediocre Oregon team while playing some of their worst softball of the […]

After her senior season in 2003, former UCLA softball player Natasha Watley departed as one of the greatest players of her era. She won the Honda Award in softball as well as the Honda-Broderick Cup for being the nation’s top collegiate female athlete for the year 2002-2003, and she finished her collegiate career with the […]

When people think about collegiate softball, two names instantly come to mind. When UCLA hosts Arizona today at Easton Stadium, it will be a meeting of two teams that have won 17 of the 24 NCAA Championships since softball became an NCAA sport in 1982. Whenever these two teams meet, there is always plenty at […]