For most of this season, the UCLA softball team has been unable to find any semblance of offensive consistency. At times, the Bruins would look like the high-powered team that won NCAA titles the last two years. But that run would frequently be followed by a prolonged slump. In the last three weeks of the […]
Author Archives: Gilbert Quiñonez
Possibility for title win is most promising this year
I know I say this every year. But this really is the men’s tennis team’s best chance to win the NCAA Championship. I know, this is the fourth year in a row that I’m saying that, but I feel more strongly about it this year than ever before. You can fill in the punch line […]
Softball: Pitcher feels good, set for postseason
Just in time for the postseason, when most teams rely on just one pitcher, UCLA freshman Anjelica Selden seems to have regained the dominance she showed for the first half of the season. Only two weeks removed from an individual four-start losing streak, Selden pitched effectively in three straight games to end the regular season […]
Krikorian deserves more honor
If he were on any other campus, there would be a parade thrown in his honor. A statue would be built praising him. A building or complex would certainly be named for him. But Adam Krikorian is getting none of this. The coach of both the UCLA women’s and men’s water polo teams won his […]
Softball: Softball offense can’t top Oregon
When the UCLA softball team glanced at this week’s schedule, Thursday afternoon’s game against Oregon appeared to be the least of the Bruins’ worries. It just so happens that the Ducks were more than just worthy competition. Oregon shut out UCLA, 3-0, ending the Bruins’ three-game winning streak and halting a two-week stretch where they […]
Former coach loved by everyone
In the stands for the first home game of the UCLA baseball season, Gary Adams was lost. After spending 30 years in the dugout at Jackie Robinson Stadium, the former UCLA coach felt out of place in his new role as spectator. “I just had so many mixed feelings,” Adams said of that first game […]
Softball: Softball better prepared to face Oregon teams
The last time the UCLA softball team faced the Oregon schools, it marked one of the low points of the Bruins’ season. The Ducks and Beavers swept UCLA during the first week of the Pac-10 season. Since then, the Bruins have been hot, cold and currently, hot again, taking a three-game winning streak into the […]