Saturday, May 10

Bruins crack under Duck pressure as UCLA baseball drops weekend series to Oregon

It’s a risk putting all of your eggs into one basket – especially against a former Pac-12 rival. And by the end of Easter Sunday, the Bruins had hatched just one win against the Ducks. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore third baseman Roman Martin, sophomore shortstop Roch Cholowsky, junior right-hander Jack O’Connor, sophomore second baseman Phoenix Call, sophomore first baseman Mulivai Levu, coach John Savage and sophomore catcher Blake Balsz meet on the mound as graduate student right-hander August Souza exits. (Max Zhang/Daily Bruin)




Fresh starts: Joey Aguilar leaves, Madden Iamaleava returns to quarterback line

This post was updated April 22 at 11:11 p.m. Joey Aguilar is headed to Tennessee. Madden Iamaleava is circling back to Westwood. And in the span of a day, the trajectory of UCLA football’s quarterback room has been completely rewritten.  ESPN’s Chris Low announced Monday afternoon that Aguilar, the redshirt senior who transferred to UCLA from Appalachian State in late December, plans to transfer to Tennessee – less than four months after taking first-team reps as the Bruins’ starting quarterback.  Just about an hour later, Low reported that Madden Iamaleava – newly-arrived five-star quarterback Nico Iamaleava’s younger brother – informed his now-former Arkansas coaches that he was headed to UCLA to reunite with his brother in Westwood.  The back-to-back moves cap a 26-hour sequence for UCLA and Tennessee, which have effectively swapped quarterbacks. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt senior quarterback Joey Aguilar looks downfield to throw the ball. After just under four months at UCLA, Aguilar entered the portal Monday and is expected to commit to Tennessee – swapping places with Nico Iamaleava, who transferred to the Bruins from the Volunteers on Sunday. (Jeannie Kim/Daily Bruin senior staff)



‘Expecting big things’: Foster’s squad shows promise at Friday Night Lights

It was one of those weeks where headlines could have hijacked the narrative. The online rumor mill didn’t sleep for three days – whispers that former five-star quarterback Nico Iamaleava was en route to Westwood from Tennessee reverberated across social media. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt senior quarterback Joey Aguilar prepares to throw the ball at Drake Stadium during UCLA football’s annual Friday Night Lights and ninth practice of the spring. (Jeannie Kim/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Injury-ridden seasons finally behind UCLA baseball, 4 pitchers back on the mound

Josh Alger came in to shut the door in the Bruins’ 18-2 victory Feb. 15. But it was probably unclear for many in the stands why sophomore catcher Blake Balsz gave the redshirt junior right-hander a long embrace – or why past and present Bruins flooded social media with words for Alger – after a routine relief appearance in an early-season blowout. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt junior right-hander Josh Alger follows through on his motion at Jackie Robinson Stadium. After a myriad of injuries kept him off the mound since his senior year of high school, Alger had to wait till his fourth season at UCLA to make his collegiate debut, which came Feb. 15. (Renee Rubanowitz/Daily Bruin)



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