Monday, April 15, 1996 Wildcats sweep UCLA in season’s final home gamesBy Brent Boyd Daily Bruin Contributor The setting was perfect  a near capacity crowd, a national television audience, a celebration of the careers of three Bruin seniors, and a cloudless sky over Easton Stadium on a picturesque Saturday afternoon. There was only problem: […]
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49ers strike gold in volleyball sweep
Monday, April 15, 1996, 1996 No. 3 Bruin men’s squad comes out cold against hard-hitting Long BeachBy Ruben Gutierrez Daily Bruin Staff At the Long Beach State Pyramid Friday night, the No. 3 UCLA men’s volleyball team encountered everything possible, except for the parting of the Red Sea, which in fact, would have made a […]
Emotional w. tennis leaves mark on ‘SC
Saturday, April 13, 1996 Doubles teams struggle in Friday’s 5-3 victory over Southern CaliforniaBy Hye Kwon Daily Bruin Staff The UCLA women’s tennis team started off Friday’s match against Southern California slower than molasses but amassed momentum in time to record the 5-3 victory on the maroon colored courts of Marks Stadium. With the exception […]
W. gym vaults into nationals with perfect 10
Monday, April 15, 1996, 1996 Handspring pike by Dee Fischer secures defeat of BeaversBy Esther Hui Daily Bruin Staff It wasn’t quite the clincher for the UCLA women’s gymnastics team, but it certainly didn’t hurt, as Dee Fischer ended Saturday night’s West Regional championships with a perfect handspring pike vault and a 10.0. It was […]
Women stay on track with strong finish at Drake Stadium
Saturday, April 13, 1996 Hayes, Anderson sprinting tandem leads way to victoryBy Scott Yamaguchi Daily Bruin Staff The UCLA women’s track and field team performed a bit of spring cleaning Saturday at Drake Stadium, dusting Cal State Northridge, Houston and UC Irvine in typical ho-hum fashion. The Bruins amassed 88 points in the quadrangular competition […]
W. water polo laps up awards after big wins
Monday, April 15, 1996, 1996 By Mark J. Dittmer Daily Bruin Contributor The theme of the UCLA women’s water polo season to this point has been their invincibility. The Bruins seemed incapable of losing. That theme only continued over the weekend in Berkeley, where they came away with four wins, and the first-ever Mountain Pacific […]
Bruins seek vindication; ‘Cats, win
Friday, April 12, 1996 By Brian Purcell and Yoni Tamler Daily Bruin Staff The No. 10 UCLA baseball team has won at least two games in all but one conference series this season. The Bruins’ only mishap in the Six-Pac came last month at the hands of the Arizona Wildcats, who, coincidentally, hadn’t won a […]