Non-Revenue Sports Bruin Review and Calendar
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Feb 28, 2010 11:26 PM PST
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Two weeks ago, women's tennis jumped up the rankings, last week they proved why (Photo Credit: Official Site)
Softball
It wasn't a poor week, but it wasn't the type of week the #3 Bruins were looking for. The week began with a 9-6 win over Cal St. Fullerton at Easton Stadium, the Bruins' ninth consecutive win. UCLA then hit the road for Cathedral City Classic and the tournament began with a 4-3 defeat of Colorado St. That was followed by a four home run outburst to take down #13 Texas, 9-1. They hit three more homers against Baylor, but it wasn't enough as the Bears took down the blue and gold, 7-5. A five run eighth inning was what it took to beat #22 Northwestern, 10-5, but the weekend ended on a sour note as the Bruins were handily beaten by #16 Ohio St., 7-0. This week, it will be the San Diego Classic for UCLA.
Women's Gymnastics
#3 UCLA took part in a tri-meet at Cal St. Fullerton and defeated both the Titans and Utah St., which was expected, but the highlight came from Vanessa Zamarippa, who scored her fourth-career perfect 10 on the vault. The sophomore's vault helped the team score season highs on the event, something they also did on the beam. The Bruins visit #5 Georgia on Saturday.
Women's Water Polo
The #3 Bruins took part in the UC Irvine Invitational and came away with a solid 3-1 showing. The tournament began with a 9-3 win over #14 UC Santa Barbara behind three KK Clark goals and the Bruins backed that up with a tough 7-5 win over #5 Michigan. UCLA was easily defeated by top-ranked Stanford, 10-4, but finished off the week with a 7-6 win over #4 Cal. This was no ordinary one-goal win, though. This was an epic, EIGHT OVERTIME match. A great win for the Bruins. A trip to #6 Hawaii looms.
Men's Volleyball
What happened to the #3 Bruins? Fresh off of a 4-1 road trip, then a win over the nation's stop ranked team, UCLA dropped a pair of matches in straight sets last week. First, #14 UC San Diego easily handled the Bruins, then #9 Long Beach St. made quick work of the Bruins in another home match. #15 Lewis and #11 UC Irvine will be in Pauley Pavilion this week as UCLA tries to straighten things out.
Women's Tennis
UCLA jumped up eight spots in the national rankings two weeks ago, from #12 to #4 and followed it up with wins over two lowly opponents. Last week, it was time to prove their worth as a top-five team and prove it they did. The first match of the week went in UCLA's favor as they smacked #11 Stanford around, 6-1, to hand the Cardinal their first loss of the year. The Bruins then avenged their only loss of the season by coming from 3-1 down to beat #3 Cal, 4-3. The Bruins now sit at 11-1 with a visit to #11 USC and Oregon this week.
Men's Tennis
A match against Stanford got rained out, but #7 UCLA took care of #15 Cal, 4-3. The Bruins hopped out to a 4-2 lead and were the winners by then, but the finished the final two matches, both of which went to the Bears. #5 USC visits Westwood on Wednesday.
Men's Track and Field
The best indoor track and field team in the MPSF? That would be your UCLA Bruins. The team took home the indoor crown for the second consecutive year behind Kevin Craddock and Jonathan Clark's individual wins.
Women's Track and Field
A sixth place finish was the best the Bruins could muster at the MPSF Indoor Championships.
Women's Basketball
Markel Walker paced the Bruins with 19 points to kick off their final road weekend as they took down Oregon St., 74-53, in a game that was never really close. How do you back that up? How about coming back from a 16-point halftime deficit to win in front of a national TV audience? The Bruins did just that, beating Oregon, 91-75, thanks to 31 points and 20 rebounds from Jasmine Dixon. UCLA closes out the regular season with the Arizona schools at Pauley Pavilion this weekend.
Women's Swimming and Diving
The Bruins had a strong Pac-10 Championships, finishing fifth as a team. Karina Silva was the class of the Bruins in the diving competition, setting a school, Pac-10 and championship meet record on tower.
Women's Golf
#2 UCLA will compete in the Bruin Wave Invitational beginning Monday.
Men's Golf
#11 UCLA will compete in the USC Invitation beginning Monday.
Women's Rowing
The Bruins return to action this week versus LMU.
Calendar (all times pacific)
Monday, March 1
Women's Golf, Bruin Wave Invitational, All Day- Canyon Country, CA
Men's Golf, USC Invitational, All Day- Westlake Village, CA
Tuesday, March 2
Women's Golf, Bruin Wave Invitational, All Day- Canyon Country, CA
Men's Golf, USC Invitational, All Day- Westlake Village, CA
Wednesday, March 3
Women's Tennis at USC, 1:30 pm- Los Angeles, CA
Softball at UC Riverside, 2:00 pm- Riverside, CA
Men's Tennis vs. USC, 3:00 pm- LA Tennis Center
Men's Volleyball vs. Lewis, 7:00 pm- Pauley Pavilion
Women's Golf, Bruin Wave Invitational, All Day- Canyon Country, CA
Thursday, March 4
Women's Basketball vs. Arizona St., 7:00 pm- Pauley Pavilion
Friday, March 5
Softball vs. Fresno St., 2:00 pm- San Diego, CA
Baseball vs. Nebraska, 6:00 pm- Jackie Robinson Stadium
Men's Volleyball vs. UC Irvine, 7:00 pm- Pauley Pavilion
Saturday, March 6
Softball vs. UTEP, 11:30 am- San Diego, CA
Women's Tennis at Oregon, 12:00 pm- Eugene, OR
Women's Basketball vs. Arizona, 12:30 pm- Pauley Pavilion
Women's Gymnastics at Georgia, 1:00 pm- Athens, GA
Baseball vs. Nebraska, 2:00 pm- Jackie Robinson Stadium
Softball vs. Long Beach St., 7:00 pm- San Diego, CA
Women's Water Polo at Hawaii, 9:00 pm- Honolulu, HI
Sunday, March 7
Baseball vs. Nebraska, 11:00 am- Jackie Robinson Stadium
Softball vs. Buffalo, 11:30 am- San Diego, CA
Softball vs. San Diego St., 2:00 pm- San Diego, CA
Men's Tennis, Pacific Coast Doubles Championships, All Day- La Jolla, CA
Ticket information for all sports can be found here while facility information and directions for all sports can be found here. GO BRUINS!!!
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I've always been amazed at the shape water polo players are in
I know I couldn’t make it through a game, but a regular game plus eight overtimes?!? Everyone who played deserves a trophy for surviving.
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by Ryan Rosenblatt on Feb 28, 2010 11:57 PM PST up reply actions
Swimming ability helps out a lot
Eventually you get to the point where the treading water and swimming half speed consumes virtually no energy, like standing or jogging in basketball. It’s the constant quick bursts of energy, like establishing position inside or raising up for a shot or sprinting on a fastbreak that make the game difficult. Which reminds me, the goalies may have been helped out in the OTs by exhausted field players. They generally don’t have to move around very much, and there may have been fewer and fewer credible chances on goal as the minutes piled up.
A question for people who follow track
What’s the difference between the indoor and outdoor versions? Is there a reason why we apparently do so well indoors, yet seem to be relatively unsuccessful during the outdoor season?
For men's T&F... Carroll also won
Randall Carroll won the 200 meters championship final on Friday. Another Footballer, Nelson Rosario, took 5th place in the Long Jump, going over 24 feet.
As to Jaffa’s question on indoor track:
— Indoor track has a limited number of events, so tough distance teams like Stanford and Oregon don’t get as many point opportunities.
— Some teams, like USC, don’t compete in indoor at all, others use very limited lineups as they train and gear up for outdoor season
— Our current roster just so happens to include lots of guys that do compete in the limited number of events, such as jumpers, vaulters, a medley relay team (conversely, teams that are built around discus throwers, javelin throwers, 10k runners will not get any points).
— Overall, it’s kind of fool’s gold to look at the MPSF as something that could translate into a good NCAA showing… most west coast teams put very little emphasis on indoor and most don’t have indoor track facilities. However, midwest and east coast teams take it much more seriously. As a result, our MPSF team champs likely won’t even make the top 20 as a team at the NCAAs in 2 weeks. We might grab a couple points each from the pole vault, 60m hurdles, 800 and possibly triple jump. I’d be pleasantly surprised if we get 15 total team points at NCAAs. The top 5 teams will all get over 40 points.
Easy money and faithless women, red-eye whiskey for the pain...
Another aspect ....
In terms of indoors at MPSF, a team like Oregon, which scored 59 points and finished 6th (UCLA had over 100) could likely score the same amount of points at NCAAs and win it all. Just wanted to point that out so nobody thought I was misleading them … or look stupid when Oregon does well at NCAAs.
Also, with a team like Oregon, which has a legit shot at an NCAA title, they were on cruise control in the MPSF, saving their big efforts for the NCAAs. Whereas our guys, with only a few having the marks to qualify for NCAAs, this was their “championship” effort.
Easy money and faithless women, red-eye whiskey for the pain...
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