Daily Nexus Connolly Finishes off Search, Tigers Senior Solves Gaucho Pitching Puzzle

By Jonathan Okanes Staff Writer______

Earlier this season, after Pat Bennett had established himself as a consistent closer for the UCSB baseball team and the starting rotation began to hold its own, UCSB Head Coach A1 Ferrer found himself searching only for some effective middle relief to shore up the final soft spot on his pitching staff. It took a while, but the search may fi­ nally be over. Senior right-hander Greg Connolly emerged as die Gaucho set-up man out of the bullpen this weekend with two superb relief performances, helping Santa Barbara to 6-5 and 11-6 victories over the University of the Pacific Fri­ day and Saturday at Stockton’s Billy Herbert Field. UCSB (24-16-1,6-9) took two of three in the Big West Conference series with the Tigers after losing the first game Thursday. UOP is 15-26 overall, 5-16 against conference opponents. Connolly relieved starter Steve Lane on Friday in the sixth inning with the Gauchos trailing 5-2, and pitched two perfect innings while Santa Barbara staged a comeback. UCSB shortstop Danny Lane crashed a two-run homer, his sixth of the year, to cut the lead to 5-4. Lane then a two- run single in the ninth to drive in the game-winning runs, redeeming a costly error he made earlier in the game. Ben­ nett (2-1) relieved Connolly to pick up the victory.

Saturday Connolly again threw well in relief after starter HILLARY KAPLOWITZ/Mr N u u Chris Johnson faltered in the fifth inning. Connolly pre- Though second baseman Dave Waco couldn 't reach this throw, he and the Gauchos got back on track by taking two of three from Pacific over the weekend. See TIGERS, p.2A No Runs, Few Hits, Lots of Errors Against Rebels Conroy, MacMillen UNLV’s Harrigan Masterful; UCSB Splits a Pair With Long Beach State Compete at

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Why should things change? By Robert Silk The last four times the UCSB team has played S tiff Writer______four games over a weekend, it has either won three or lost three. Unfortunately, this weekend’s action saw it It is the stuff dreams are lose three. made of. UCSB senior Col- Sunday, #6 UNLV swept the Gauchos (16-20 overall, man Conroy stands in the 8-14 in the Big West) by scores of 2-0 and 1-0 behind infield of the Mt. San Anto­ back-to-back shutouts from Rebel senior Lori Harrigan. nio Relays and watches Friday, UCSB fared a little better; splitting a pair with legends Carl Lewis and #20 Long Beach State, losing the first game, 1 -0 and win­ LeRoy Burrell compete on ning the nightcap, 2-1. the track that Is encircling Sunday^ games were dominated by Harrigan, a left­ him. Then he looks next to hander who was a first team All-Big West selection and a him and sees American third team All-American last season. With Sunday’s high-jump record holder wins, she raised her record to 15-5. Hollis Conway about to Neither team could mount much offense in the first leap. A great performance four innings of the first game. UCSB’s starting , here could mean instant junior Kelli Schott (9-10), held the UNLV offense in notoriety. check, matching Harrigan pitch for pitch. “It was an incredible Schott faltered late in the game as the Gaucho defense meet,” Conroy said of Satur­ collapsed around her. On the day, the Gauchos commit­ day’s event “I wish I’d been ted five errors, and the Rebels capitalized, scoring single a little more well prepared. runs in the fifth and sixth innings. If I’d been more prepared it Harrigan then went to work on the mound and shut would have been more en­ the Gauchos down in the final two innings, recording joyable trying to jump eight for the game and allowing only four- there.” Gaucho hits. However, for Conroy it In the second game, both teams were held scoreless was to be another episode of until UNLV broke out with a single run in the fifth in­ frustration, as the All- ning. UCSB junior Margo Melendrez walked Rebel American again failed to top Cyndi Parus, who was then sacrificed to second. Parus the 7-foot mark, settling for then scored on a misplayed single to left by Felicia Ben­ 6’10 3/4” for the second jamins, plating the only run of the game. consecutive meet Harrigan continued to put down Gaucho hitters and UCSB Head Coach Sam was never really threatened throughout the game. Once Adams explained that Con­ again, she only allowed four hits as she picked up her roy’s lower scores this sea­ 15 th win of the season. Melendrez (2-4) took the loss for son were a result of mechan­ the Gauchos. ical problems. “Harrigan was just awesome today,” UCSB Head Coach Sandy Pearce said. “I think that even though we See TRACK, p.2A lost both games, some good things happened today. We hit Harrigan pretty hard, harder than I think most teams do. We’re a very good defensive team and the five errors in the first game was just a fluke. We would have liked to ALAN RlTARfyDailjr Nmuc Junior Margo Melendrez watches and waits for the pitcher to deliver. Over, the M onday, April 20 See WEEKEND, p.2A weekend, Melendrez earned the Gauchos’ only win, beating LBSU 2-1 on Friday. Baseball UCSB vs. Pepperdine 2:30 p.m. KCSB-91.9 FM

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Continued from p.lA if he has to. The served a Santa Barbara lead Gauchos played Pepper- and went five effective in­ dine in the first game of their WEEKEND nings to pick up the victory recent road trip and lost Continued from p.lA (3-0). 10-6 in Malibu. come away with a split, but “He threw extremely it’s not the end of the world. well,” Ferrer said of Con­ TEXAS LEAGUERS: I know the girls will come nolly. “He kept us right back strong the next time.” there in Friday's game, and First baseman Jeff An- Friday, UCSB travelled to at times he was really over­ toon and second baseman Long Beach to take on the powering. He’s had an up David Waco each made 49ers for the second time and down season, but it’s their first error of the season this year. nice to know that I can go over the weekend. Antoon LBSU won the first game, with him now in that has also played third base 1-0; the lone run coming as situation.” and the outfield this season. 49er winning pitcher Stacy Pacific, which received a Greg Connolly Danny Lane “To make your first error af­ Van Essen hit a sacrifice fly strong pitching perfor­ ter 40 games is really mindr off Schott that scored Linda Lori Harrigan mance from senior Larry the game close and on Sa­ dine at 2:30. boggling,” Ferrer said. “An­ Lunceford, who had Shenk in the series opener turday I was just trying to “I’m pleased with the way toon plays high-percentage reached on an error. to cut the lead to 2-1 in the on Thursday, again got a throw strikes with the lead.” we played on the road trip,” positions but to do that in The second game started third inning when 49er Amy good starting stint on Friday S a tu rd a y ’s c o n te s t, said Ferrer, whose team five different positions is im­ with Santa Barbara jumping Geldbach singled with two from junior Bill McGowen, which saw Santa Barbara went 4-3 on the trip. “Tliose pressive. Ana Waco’s error all over Long Beach starting outs and came home on a who went six innings while score early and often in were some tough opponents was even borderline — he pitcher Rae Rice, who had Kim Kostyk triple. allowing just two runs on knocking out Pacific starter that we played and we’re made some incredible plays entered the game with a per­ But that was as dose as five hits. But in contrast to Robert Rinderknecht and very tired right now, but I’m this weekend”... The tough fect 5-0 record. LBSU would come as Connolly’s performance, bashing around reliever happy that we’re playing schedule may be catching Melendrez started off the Schott took over in the fifth Pacific reliever Dan Miller Butch Cain (1-5), marked much better right now.” up with some of the game with a walk, which inning and shut out the (5-5) wasn’t able to preserve the end of a grueling seven- Gauchos. Starting right­ was followed by singles by 49ers the rest of the way, the lead. game road trip for the Junior left-hander Greg hander Travis Rodgers was senior Kellie Newcombe earning her first of the “I felt pmtty good out Gauchos, who will play Nealon is expected to get sent home before Friday’s and sophomore Krissy Kyr- year. Schott and Kyriazis there — I hjd all my pitches their first game at Campus the start today against the game with illness, and iazis to load the bases. Se­ had two hits each for UCSB. going,” Connolly said. “On Diamond since April 3 this Waves, but Ferrer said he Danny Lane is also under nior Gina Oliver then Friday I just wanted to keep afternoon against Pepper- plans to use four or five the weather. scored Melendrez with a “The girls really got it sacrifice fly and Newcombe together for that second came home on a perfectly game,” Pearce said. “They SPORTS SLATE executed suicide squeeze played hard and were able bunt from junior Jennifer to jump out on top early. We Gomez, giving UCSB a play ora* best ball when we THFWEWAHFAn quick 2-0 lead. get an early lead. The girls With Melendrez on the got it in their heads that they SPORT OPPONENTDAY TIME SITE mound for the Gauchos, just weren’t going to lose Long Beach State was able that game and they didn’t ” Baseball Pepperdine M on. 2:30 p.m. UCSB Big West All W. Tennis W ed.-Sat Championships Day Ojai NCAA M. Gymnastics Championships T h u rs.-S at TBA Lincoln, Neb. Big West AU M . Tennis Fri.-Sun. Championships Day Ojai

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n the whole, the day couldn’t have been much bet­ ter for UCSB’s firet home crew meet in over two years. The breezes blowing through Santa Barbara never made it over the Santa Ynez mountains, Oleaving Lake Cachuma fairly calm— the only ripples com­ ing from the boats of fishermen racing across the lake. The warm sun beating down on the many friends and family members that had made the trek to the lake made the occa­ sional splash of water a gratifying occurrence. - In fact, the only thing that could have improved the meet from a UCSB standpoint would have been the Gauchos sweeping all 11 of the events over the visiting crews of Long Beach State and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Though that didn’t happen, the majority of people were satisfied with the meet, considered to be a warm-up for next week’s State Schools Championship in Sacramento. “Beautiful day, good row, but it just wasn’t enough to put us over first,” said women’s varsity Head Coach Jim Han- chrow of the varsity openweight women's half-a- boatlcngth loss to Long Beach. “We were close, we had a lot of good things going for us. We just came up a half a length short” I n the only other women’s varsity race of the day, a boat of four lightweights went up against openweight competi­ tion. Though they couldn’t pull off a win, Hanchrow was happy. . • “I thought this was the best row that they had,” he said. “When they row against their own lightweight competi­ tion, they should be pretty quick.” Next week in Sacramento, the boat will have it’s first op­ portunity to face women of equal weight and size. “They’ve waited all this time to get a trae lightweight four race, and I’m really happy for them,” Hanchrow said. ______! The novice women did a little better in their races. The lightweight eight took first, winning by open water over Cal Poly. The open eight took second behind Cal Poly despite having two oars, come out of the oarlocks. “I was really disappointed that we lost to Cal Poly,” wo­ men’s novice Coach Thien Do said. “I never lost to Cal Poly before. It’s almost like a disgrace. But we’ll get them next week.” In later races, UCSB women took first and third in the open four race, and the lightweight boat took first For the varsity men, the day’s strong performances al­ lowed Head Coach Mike Bailey to rest a little easier. “Overall I was really pleased with the day,” Bailey said. “Since we see them next weekend, we had to make sure that we beat them big. And we did.” The UCSB heavyweight eight boat won by a length open water over Long Beach while the lightweight eight beat the 49cr boat by nearly three lengths. The victories were doubly impressive considering that four lightweights rowed in the heavyweight boat, and the feet that the Long Beach rowers were generally bigger than UCSB. “There is a lot of experience in (the UCSB) b o at Six of the eight guys in thatboat have won a major championship. Experience is winning races,” Bailey said. The men’s JV boat lost by just a few seats after making up nearly a length in the last 500 meters. A few of the sights from Lake Ca­ Perhaps the most exciting race of the day was the novice chuma. The varsity lightweight men’s 1 ightweight eight. At the 500-meter mark an oar came men, top, celebrate victory by out of the lock, and the boat struggled for another throwing their coxswain in the lake. 500-metcrs before the oar was reinserted. Despite spotting A men’s eight boat, above right, a huge lead to Cal Poly, the UCSB didn’t give up, felling just pulls hard during a race. The no­ a little short at the finish line. vice women four, above, carefully H ie boat redeemed itself a little later in the novice four lower their boat into the water. The race, as a boat made up of the stem four of the lightweight lightweight men, left, decked out in eight took first in the race, while the bow four took third. their “Gilligan Hats." Below, UCSB The novice heavyweight eight crew broke out of its up and down season with open water victoiy. women work to make up ground against LBSU.

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