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Jan. 30, 2014 Matadors 71 - Highlanders 61 There’s an old adage: When it rains, it pours. No statement could more accurate for the UCR women’s basketball team, who after Thursday night’s loss to Cal State Northridge, fell to 4-16 on the season overall and 0-7 in conference. The Highlanders shot an abysmal 29.9 percent from the floor while only making...
The Highlander softball team (3-6) traveled to Los Angeles to compete in the Stacy Winsberg Tournament from Friday Feb.15-17. UCR got swept in their first doubleheader on Friday against University of Mississippi (5-1) and Boise State (3-2). The first game of the two was against Ole Miss, who scored in every inning but the fourth, on their way to...
UCR softball (26-25, 8-13) started their final series of the regular season at home on Friday, May 10 against Cal State Fullerton (38-16, 18-3). The Highlanders faced off against the Titans twice on Friday before finishing the series on Saturday, May 11. In the first game of the Friday doubleheader, Riverside was unable to stop Fullerton’s offense and went down...
This past week, Atalanta thrashed the formerly “Invincible” Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the Europa League final. Despite being the clear underdog, Atalanta put Leverkusen on the back foot from kick-off to the final whistle. They pressed aggressively and didn’t give Leverkusen’s playmakers Florian Wirtz and Exequiel Palacios an inch of space. It suffocated their attack as Leverkusen struggled to...
By: Patreace Espiritu, CW The Highlanders hosted the game against the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors at the SRC Arena on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. Not only was the visiting team the No. 1 seed in the Big West Conference Standings, they were also undefeated — until they stepped foot on Highlander territory. Defeating them with a final score of 64-59, the...
From a very young age, I have been a dancer. I spent several years dancing with a studio in my adolescence. I participated in ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, hip-hop and folklorico dance classes. Growing up in dance gave me much more than just athletic ability though — it always gave me structure and an outlet to express myself. Dancing...
The UC Riverside men’s basketball team (1-0) opened their season with a road win against UC Berkeley (0-1) of the Pac-12 on Friday, Nov. 10, scoring the first 10 points of the game en route to a 74-66 win. Adding on to their opening run, the Highlanders went on a 14-2 run late in the first half, going into halftime...
Courtesy of UCR Athletics Since the announcement of the NCAA shutdown, things have changed rapidly. On Tuesday, March 10, I was dancing in the rain with my teammates after practice. We were laughing because we had all just received an email saying that classes would be remote until spring quarter in light of heightening...
On Thursday night, the University of California, Riverside (UCR) men’s basketball team edged out Big West rival, the University of California, Davis (UCD), 60-58. Junior guard Nate Pickens drilled the game-winning three-pointer, with just 4.3 seconds left on the game clock. Pickens hadn’t logged a single point for most of the night, but his 3-pointer to put UCR ahead in...
The UC Riverside men’s golf team competed at the Anteater Invitational this past Tuesday afternoon where they finished the tourney in eighth place out of nine teams with a total score of 911. David Gazzolo paced the Highlander with with a total score of 219 placing him in a tie for 13th overall. The winner of the invitational was...