This post was updated May 11 at 6:46 p.m. A ball made it through UCLA baseball’s third baseman Tuesday night, and it cost the Bruins the game. Read more...
Photo: Junior first baseman Sean Bouchard, who leads UCLA in home runs and slugging percentage, bunted for a base hit in the first inning of Tuesday’s game to load the bases with no outs. No Bruins scored in that frame. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
Doubles is a game of chess for coach Billy Martin. There are no partner changes or major adjustments in the lineup this time of year for the UCLA men’s tennis coach. Read more...
Photo: In UCLA men’s tennis’s recent matchup against USC, the pair of senior Joe Di Giulio (pictured) and junior Austin Rapp took a loss on Court 2 to the Trojans’ Nick Crystal-Laurens Verboven. (Farida Saleh/Daily Bruin)
UCLA softball celebrated seniors shortstop Delaney Spaulding, outfielder Gabrielle Maurice and pitcher Paige McDuffee this past weekend during senior weekend. They did it both with a ceremony and with winning a pivotal series against Arizona, building on the successes of previous weeks and putting themselves in a better position for a higher postseason seed. Read more...
Photo: Gabrielle Maurice helped UCLA beat Arizona in the final regular season home-series of her career. Maurice and the Bruins will have one more series against Arizona State before the postseason begins. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
UCLA baseball is in the middle of a seven-game road stretch. But at this point in the season, that’s a good thing. “RPI-wise it’s what we want,” said coach John Savage. Read more...
Photo: Coach John Savage will call on sophomore lefty Justin Hooper to start Tuesday’s game. Savage said Hooper was inconsistent last time out, when he gave up four runs in 4 1/3 innings pitched. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
This year was different. Until it wasn’t. UCLA beach volleyball became the first team in NCAA history to down the juggernauts at USC, as well as achieving a 24-straight dual-victories school record. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore Megan McNamara anchored court one for the Bruins with her twin sister Nicole. The McNamaras, who earned first team All-Pac-12 accolades, will be back for their junior years after the best season in program history. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
As cliche as it is, you can almost always expect athletes at the postgame press conference to blame themselves for the loss. The more heartbreaking the defeat, the more they’ll usually talk about how they could’ve executed a play differently, how it wasn’t anyone else’s fault and how they could’ve done more. Read more...
Photo: Former University of Arizona coach Craig Carter was arrested after threatening one of his former athletes. In ESPN’s article on Carter and his accuser Baillie Gibson, the authors question whether the school could have done more to investigate. (Creative Commons photo by Steve548 via Pixabay)
While Bruin athletes continue competing in Westwood, here’s a look at some of the biggest news from the rest of the Pac-12 and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Read more...
Photo: Arizona only took one game off UCLA in the weekend’s series at Easton Stadium, but it was enough for the Wildcats to clinch their first Pac-12 regular season title since 2007. The Wildcats will now wait for the postseason while the Bruins have one more series left. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
