As a senior, I’m glad I get to write this column. After three-plus long years, my class can take with us fond memories of a player whose time in Westwood mirrors ours, a player who is largely responsible for the most enjoyable year of basketball we have had. Thursday night, Dijon Thompson wrote a few […]
Author Archives: Ben Peters
Baseball: Bruin offense strong despite lack of home runs
Tuesday’s 17-0 win over UC Riverside had an interesting wrinkle that may become a trend for the UCLA baseball team ““ the Bruins did not hit a home run. Given the metal bats used in collegiate baseball, the long ball is generally a staple of the game. Yet oddly enough, UCLA has not hit a […]
Baseball: UCLA pummels UCR, 17-0
Third baseman Eric Taylor hit a game-winning two-run, two-out triple off of the bottom of the right-center field wall to give UCLA a 2-0 lead. Then the Bruins added 15 more runs for good measure. Taylor’s triple came in the first inning of UCLA’s 17-0 throttling of UC Riverside on Tuesday night at Jackie Robinson […]
Loss encouraging in the big picture
Roughly 78 percent of my brain is devoted to sports, and this causes me to see my life in those terms. Take my quarter, for instance. If it were a basketball season, then the first few weeks are out-of-conference play where ideally I would like to pick up a few wins (nights of studying), but […]
Baseball: Baseball struggles to fit new faces
It may take a while for the UCLA baseball team to find its identity. During last weekend’s series against Cal Poly, UCLA coach John Savage trotted out several different lineups that were mostly unfamiliar to Bruin fans. This weekend UCLA (1-2) heads to Fresno State (0-3) for a three-game series in which Savage will likely […]
Two schools of thought when analyzing win
I had my column pretty much written after halftime. I left the debacle on my living room TV, sat down at my computer, and started ranting. Despite three-plus years full of disappointment and frustration, Saturday’s first half made me the angriest I’ve been. It’s not hard to write when you’re mad. I just copied the […]
Baseball: Baseball drops 2 of 3 to Cal Poly
John Savage wasted no time in collecting his first victory as UCLA’s new baseball coach. The first-year coach had little time to enjoy the season-opening win, though, as the Bruins dropped the next two games in the weekend series against Cal Poly. “It was great to get that first win,” Savage said. “I felt that […]