Six national player of the year awards belong to the Bruins. Three incoming freshmen and three current athletes secured player of the year honors in basketball, softball, soccer, tennis, water polo and golf. Read more...
Photo: Rising senior Garrett Danner is one of the six incoming or current UCLA athletes to win a player of the year honor. The goalkeeper led the men’s water polo team to a 30-0 record and a second national championship. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Check out a breakdown of the UCLA sports stories you might have missed this week. USA Softball teams loaded with Bruins UCLA softball capped off its season in the Women’s College World Series, but many current and former players will compete with USA Softball this summer. Read more...
Photo: Mysha Sataraka will train with the USA Softball Elite Team this month. The infielder capped off her UCLA career with seven RBIs in the Women’s College World Series. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor).
UCLA softball exited the Women’s College World Series without winning a single game for the first time in school history. The No. 12 Bruins’ NCAA Tournament run ended Saturday afternoon following the team’s 8-4 defeat to the No. Read more...
Photo: Senior Mysha Sataraka hit her first career grand slam Saturday, but it wasn’t enough as UCLA softball fell to Florida State 8-4. Sataraka drove in all seven of the Bruins’ runs in the Women’s College World Series. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
UCLA started the Women’s College World Series in the same struggling fashion that it started the super regionals. Auburn University needed only one hit off UCLA to score five runs in the first inning. Read more...
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After bumps along the way, No. 12 UCLA softball finds itself back in Oklahoma City for its second-straight Women’s College World Series. Although they won 14 of their last 16 games, the Bruins hardly looked like a championship contender over the first couple months of the season. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore second baseman Kylee Perez ranks second on the Bruins with a .383 batting average. UCLA softball’s hitting and pitching will be key against No. 4 Auburn when the two face off in game one of the Women’s College World Series Thursday. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated on May 29 at 11:40 p.m. The Bruins were two outs away from the end of their season Sunday evening when Gabrielle Maurice stepped to the plate. Read more...
Photo: Down by a run, UCLA softball needed to score to keep its season alive. Junior left fielder Gabrielle Maurice gave her team what it needed, launching a solo shot to keep the series alive. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
UCLA softball’s nine-game winning streak came to a screeching halt Saturday evening. The No.12 Bruins (38-14-1, 16-5-1 Pac-12) were hit hard in the first game of the super regional series against the No. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt junior pitcher Paige McDuffee, who came in during the second inning to relieve sophomore pitcher Johanna Grauer, pitched only one inning in Saturday’s loss to Oregon. McDuffee posted a stat line of five hits, six earned runs, a walk, a home run allowed and only one strikeout. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
