Thursday, June 25

UCLA women’s water polo invitational performance shows competitiveness

One goal was all that separated three of the first four clashes between the nation’s highest-ranked women’s water polo teams. No. 3 UCLA women’s water polo played a total of four games at the Barbara Kalbus Invitational in the span of three days, winning its first two, against No. Read more...

Photo: Senior utility Mackenzie Barr scored two goals over the No. 3 Bruins’ first two games against top-five competition this weekend. UCLA went 1-1, losing by one goal to No. 1 USC and beating No. 4 California by one goal. (Courtesy of Elizabeth Reego)


Softball relies on strong offense heading into five-game weekend

UCLA softball will head into a defining slate of five games this weekend. The No. 7 Bruins (13-3) will discover their place among the country’s best – facing off against No. Read more...

Photo: Rachel Garcia has only given up 11 runs all season, but 10 of them came in last weekend’s tournament, when the Bruins faced four ranked teams. UCLA will play three ranked teams this weekend. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)


Bruins defeat Huskies in 98-66 blowout despite T.J. Leaf injury

This post was updated March 2 at 12:15 a.m. The highlight plays came in bunches Wednesday as No. 3 UCLA pummeled an overmatched Washington team 98-66 at Pauley Pavilion, but the defining moment of the game was a sour one for the Bruins. Read more...

Photo: TJ Leaf sprained his ankle in the first five minutes of UCLA’s game against Washington. The freshman forward sat out for the rest of the matchup. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)


Men’s basketball leads Washington 49-28 at halftime

A left ankle sprain to freshman forward T.J. Leaf overshadowed UCLA’s first-half dominance against Washington on Wednesday night. The Bruins headed into halftime with a 49-28 lead, but the most notable moment of the game came less than five minutes in, when Leaf landed on the foot of Washington’s Noah Dickerson and crumpled to the ground along the UCLA baseline. Read more...

Photo: Freshman forward TJ Leaf won’t return in Wednesday’s game against Washington after spraining his ankle early in the first half. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)


Around the League: Men’s basketball heats up before postseason, Pac-12 teams stay in top 25

Men’s basketballTuAnh Dam, Sports editor Just one week left until postseason play begins and every team is trying to get one last good impression in before Selection Sunday. Read more...

Photo: Jovan Vavic, the head coach of both men’s and women’s water polo at USC, recently beat Stanford in the championship game of the Barbara Kalbus Invitational. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)


Careless errors cost UCLA baseball game against Cal State Northridge

The Bruins played one very bad inning Tuesday. UCLA baseball (4-3) let in four runs and committed two errors in the sixth, resulting in a 6-5 road loss to Cal State Northridge (4-4) Tuesday afternoon. Read more...

Photo: Sean Bouchard went three for three with a home run and a walk in Tuesday’s loss to Cal State Northridge. On the season, the junior first baseman is batting .478 with a slugging percentage of 1.000. (Isabelle Roy/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Kelsey O’Brien reflects on water polo journey from hometown to UCLA

When Kelsey O’Brien, a senior attacker on the UCLA women’s water polo team, first walked onto UCLA’s campus, she was 11 years old. She had a cousin who went to UCLA at the time so Kelsey and her father, Joe O’Brien, stopped by to visit after a water polo tournament. Read more...

Photo: Senior attacker Kelsey O’Brien won five Junior Olympic titles with the Santa Barbara Water Polo Club before she came to UCLA. She has deep connections with UC Santa Barbara’s water polo team, but committed to Westwood instead. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)