Author Archives: Gilbert Quiñonez

In a season of ups and downs, the UCLA softball team appears to be peaking at the right time. The Bruins swept a three-game weekend road trip at the Arizona schools, the highlight beating No. 3 Arizona 6-0 Friday in Tucson. “I’m really excited about the way we’re playing, getting on a roll heading into […]

A trip to Arizona, one of the toughest places to play in the country, doesn’t scare the struggling UCLA softball team, even though the Bruins aren’t exactly playing well these days. UCLA, which has lost five of its last six games, hasn’t played well since sweeping three games from Arizona and Arizona State at Easton […]

There’s a reason you hadn’t heard of Paul Johnson until this year, even though he is one of the best male athletes on this campus. Compared to his teammates on the UCLA men’s volleyball team, he’s dull. Not “blue jeans and white T-shirt” dull. More like “studying income tax rates and marginal costs curves in […]

One of the few highlights for the UCLA softball team in a weekend in which it lost three of four games was the pitching and hitting of Lisa Dodd. While her pitching had already begun returning to her old form, on Sunday, her hitting finally did too. Dodd, whose batting average had dropped to as […]

For the first half of the season, she was one of the most dominant pitchers in the country. But once the grueling Pac-10 schedule started, things changed for UCLA softball pitcher Anjelica Selden. She was no longer unhittable. She was no longer invincible. She was no longer the same pitcher who threw no-hitters on consecutive […]

During a long, drawn out regular season, a coach’s outlook on her team can constantly change. After Wednesday’s loss to Washington, UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist was angry at her team. After what she called a good practice on Thursday, she was optimistic and upbeat. “(Thursday) gave us a little momentum to get back on […]

When asked about her team’s 3-2 loss to the Huskies at Washington on Wednesday, UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist put it very succinctly. “You don’t have enough space to break down all the mental errors we had,” she said. Offensively, the slump that had plagued UCLA earlier this season came back on Wednesday. It’s not […]