Sports

Sophomore Ryan Anderson extends hitting streak to 15 games 72 degrees and sunny skies over Phil Swimley Field set the stage on Sunday for an unfortunate loss by the UC Davis baseball team to the UC Riverside Highlanders, 11-6. Despite the loss, the Aggies still captured the three-game weekend series 2-1. Going into Sunday’s game, […]

A look back at the 2016-17 UC Davis men’s tennis season The UC Davis men’s tennis team concluded its 2016-2017 season on Friday, April 29. The Aggies finished another successful season under head coach Eric Steidlmayer. “We had a good year,” said senior Alec Adamson. “We finished second in conference regular season and we had […]

Aggies finish season off strong in Round 3 of Women’s National Invitation Tournament Just a month removed from its 2016-17 season, the UC Davis women’s basketball team is already looking forward to the next one. After a brief, four-week hiatus from basketball activities, the athletes are back in the gym. Since their Round 3 finish […]

Top ten observations from Major League Baseball thus far The MLB season has taken off, and there have been many surprises in the season thus far. Let’s take a peek around the league.   Eric Thames’ Incredible Start Eric Thames, the former MLB flameout who went to the Korean Baseball League and learned how to […]

National women’s water polo team secures silver medal at FINA Intercontinental Tournament The U.S.A. national women’s water polo team made its way to Davis, Calif. last week in an out-of-the-ordinary appearance to face five other international teams trying to claim the gold medal in the FINA Intercontinental Tournament at the Schaal Aquatics Center from May […]

Aggie Gaming club provides community for competitive online gaming In the world of college sports, staples such as football, baseball, basketball and soccer tend to dominate the headlines. However, over the past few years, a new sport has swept college sports. It isn’t played on a field or in a gym but instead in front […]

UC Davis club triathlon team places 11th at nationals The men and women of the UC Davis triathlon team are pretty talented at what they do, and what they do is a continuous race that consists of a half-mile swim, a 12-mile bike ride and a 5,000-kilometer run — this being considered the shorter race. […]

Hawai’i edges out UC Davis in last seconds of match, wins 10-9 Coming off a 14-2 loss in the semi-finals against UC Irvine, the UC Davis women’s water polo team finished its season with a loss to the University of Hawai’i Rainbow Wahine on Sunday, April 30. Hawai’i beat UC Davis 10-9 in the third-place […]

Freshman pitcher shuts out Mustangs en route to 1-0 victory The UC Davis softball team concluded its weekend series on Sunday against Cal Poly with a 1-0 win. On Saturday, the Aggies and Mustangs played two of the three games in the series in doubleheader fashion. In the first game, the Aggies were up against […]

A look at UC Davis athletes who played first at junior college level A handful of UC Davis’ athletes have not spent their entire collegiate careers at UC Davis, instead competing for their first two years at a junior college (JC). Although each athlete has different reasons for taking the path from a JC to […]

A call to protect MLB pitchers from hard-hit comebackers In Major League Baseball (MLB), many scouts and pundits have begun to place extreme emphasis on the exit velocity — how fast a baseball is hit off the bat. Exit velocity is an important determinant of a player’s talent because, intuitively, if you hit the ball […]

A rarity in college sports programs: A dual-sport athlete Morgan Bertsch is the UC Davis women’s basketball team’s main offensive weapon on the court and one of the top high jumpers on the outdoor track and field team. As a redshirt sophomore forward on the women’s basketball team, Bertsch recently completed a historic 2016-2017 season […]