Author Archives: Ben Azar

In what was a day full of highs and lows for the UCLA softball team, the Bruins ended up on top. No. 1 UCLA split a double header with No. 16 Washington (30-16, 4-8 Pac-10) on Wednesday, falling in Game 1, 3-2, in 12 innings while triumphing in the finale by a score of 7-6. […]

When the UCLA softball team takes on Washington in a double-header today at Easton Stadium, the situation will be far from the norm. Not only are the No. 1 Bruins (36-4, 8-2 Pac-10) playing two games in one day in the middle of the week, but when they pick up the first game at 0-0 […]

Just a few days after bulking up their 2006 recruiting class, the Bruins received a boost to their 2007 recruiting class. Sources have indicated that junior Chace Stanback, a small forward/shooting guard out of Fairfax High School, has verbally committed to UCLA. Stanback, who attends the same high school that redshirt sophomore guard Josh Shipp […]

After a disappointing 2-0 loss on Friday to Oregon State, the top-ranked UCLA softball team responded with a vengeance. The Bruins (36-4, 8-2 Pac-10) stormed back to take the final two games of the weekend against Oregon (19-16, 1-6) and increase their lead in the Pac-10 to two and a half games over California. The […]

With the future of guards Arron Afflalo and Jordan Farmar still up in the air, the UCLA basketball team added some depth at the guard position Tuesday. Sources have indicated that Russell Westbrook, a 6-foot-2-inch shooting guard out of Leuzinger High School (Lawndale, Calif.), has verbally committed to UCLA and will join the Bruin squad […]

When the UCLA softball team travels to Washington to play a two-game set with the Huskies this weekend, it will be looking to capitalize on a surge of momentum. The Bruins (33-3, 5-1 Pac-10), who took over the nation’s No. 1 ranking after sweeping the Arizona schools last weekend, take on the No. 14 Huskies […]

When a team improves considerably from one year to the next with almost all of the same players from the year before, the existing players had to have gotten better. It’s only common sense. For the UCLA softball team, which has already won more regular season games (33) than last year’s national runner-up team did […]