Author Archives: David Woods

At the halfway point of the season, the UCLA baseball team is right where it wants to be: above .500 with a chance to make a run at the Pac-10 championship. UCLA (16-13, 1-2 Pac-10) has won 11 of its last 14 games and the Bruins still feel energized, having already surpassed last season’s meager […]

The UCLA baseball team stumbled out of the conference gate over the weekend, losing two out of three to the Washington Huskies (20-11, 3-3 Pac-10) in Seattle. The Bruins (16-13, 1-2), winners of 10 of 12 before facing Washington, did not have the offensive firepower they have grown accustomed to over the course of the […]

Thanks to a victory over UNLV (9-11) Tuesday night, the UCLA baseball team (12-11) is above .500 for the first time since early last year. Considering their strength of schedule and the fact that they are not even halfway through this season, it’s a success that the Bruins are already three wins away from their […]

Maybe they should play all their games in a hostile environment. It seems to be working well. In a setting that seemed to be a home away from home for Ole Miss, the UCLA baseball team was able to win two out of three games at Jackie Robinson Stadium over the weekend in front of […]

Taking the field with as many as five freshmen starting in his lineup, eyebrows were raised when UCLA baseball coach John Savage put together the hardest schedule in the nation. But as the nonconference season wears on, the long-term plan is taking form quicker than could have been anticipated. The UCLA baseball team, winners of […]

If it’s three steps forward for every step back the rest of the way for the baseball team, the Bruins will be happy with that. But they would rather not have been subjected to Tuesday’s 6-1 defeat by the No. 23 Pepperdine Waves after completing their weekend road sweep of North Carolina State. “This is […]

Last year the UCLA football team’s strength was its explosive offense, capable of putting bunches of points on the board in a short amount of time. It was this offensive unit that led to a 10-2 record, the best record for the Bruins since 1998. In the past few months, though, the main forces in […]