Gauchos Finish Season With Losses in NCAA Tourney By Matt Heitner next batter reached on a runs in the second inning Staff Writer fielding error from senior off of UCSB senior starter shortstop Jeff Bannon. A Rylie Ogle. balk, three singles and UCSB came fight back Try as it might, the another balk followed the with four runs of its own UCSB baseball team error; FIU quickly soared in the third to take a 12-4 couldn’t put an end to its for a 6-2 advantage. Garcia lead, before Milwaukee NCAA tournament jinx was then knocked out of answered with four runs in this weekend in South the game on a three-run the bottom of the fourth to Bend, Indiana. make the score 12-7. Playing in their first Junior reliever Jeremy NCAA tournament since Sugarman entered the 1996, the Gauchos found game in the fifth inning the Hoosier state unkind, and surrendered a single going 1-2 en route to early before the game was sus­ elimination in round one pended due to rain. of the NCAA The game resumed the Tournament. After drop­ following day, with ping the first game to Sugarman retiring UW-M Florida International 17-4 Jed Stringham on a double play and a on Friday, UCSB strikeout. The Panthers rebounded to top blast from FIU shortstop then pulled within one run Wisconsin-Milwaukee Mickey Torello. at 12-11 with fouf runs in 13-12 in a game played But UCSB’s relievers the bottom of the sixth, over two days because of fared no better than before tying the game at rain delays. Garcia, as sophomore Jim 12 all in the eighth. But the Gauchos. saw Bullard, junior Matt The Gauchos finally their season come to a Moran, senior Russell took the lead for good in close Sunday after an 11- Wirth, and freshman the top of the ninth. With 10, 10-inning loss to host Justin Angevine combined' two away in the final Notre Dame. to give up the Golden frame, Stringham lined a JASON SCHOCK / DAILY NEXUS FILE “After the Notre Dame Panther’s final eight runs. shot down the right field Freshman pitcher Matt Vasquez prepares to bring the heat. The UCSB baseball team fell game we were disappoint­ line for his 14th dinger of to Florida International and Notre Dame this weekend in round one of the NCAA Tourney. ed,” senior designated hit­ the year, giving UCSB a ter Mike Kolbach said. 13-12 lead. “But overall, the feeling “It was a 1-0 or 2-1 was that wfi were proud of count against their subma­ There Is No Comparison: Kobe Will our season. We felt that we rine pitcher,” Stringham gave it our all and left it all said of his round-tripper. Never Approach MJ.’s Immortality out on the field. “It was the second time I’d B y E l i a v A p p e l b a u m Jordan has owned for years. Kobe does Obviously, it was a really seen him. The wind was not approach Jordan in categories hard way to end the sea­ blowing out in right [field] including Finals MVP, All-Star Game so I knew he would want son, but overall we had a MVP, scoring titles, All-Defensive Kobe Bryant will never be as good as good year.” to pitch me in. But he teams, NBA championships. Jordan has “[FIU] just kept going,” threw a pitch outside and I Michael Jordan. In the first game Friday, raked the leaves from the venerable oak Stringham said. “They just went with it.” Never in a million years. Never ever the Golden Panthers tree and the bounty of immortality is ever ever will Kobe approach Jordan on jumped all over Santa played all nine innings. Senior closer Jamie forever in his grasp. They overwhelmed us in the pedestal of basketball immortality. Barbara junior starter Gonzales made the lead Jordan won the 1982 NCAA an inning or two there, but Kobe is great in his own right, but pun­ James Garcia, who was stand in the bottom of the Championship with North Carolina, dits popping up claiming the latest tagged for three runs in they were not any better inning, striking out two and he buried the game-winning 18- “Laker sensation” is the greatest ever are the top of the first inning. than we were. Things just batters to give UCSB its foot jump shot to give Tar Heel Head got out of control and we way out of proportion. However, the Gauchos firs^tournament win since Coach Dean Smith his first tide. Jordan clawed their way back, couldn’t stop the bleed- 1986. Jordan is an institution, a volume in ■ » was a skinny freshman. At around the mg. the Encyclopedia Britannica, a “Black scoring a run in the second But Santa Barbara had same age, Kobe was tossing air balls Jesus,” according to rival and buddy and a run in the third to W ith its back against little time to enjd^the vic­ against Utah , as the Lakers were swept the wall, Santa Barbara Charles Barkley. Jordan is everything to make the score 3-2 in favor tory. The Gauchos were out of the playoffs in consecutive years. was forced to respond .the the NBA; he defined a game and mold­ of FIU. forced to play their second Jordan was nurturing his greatness, next day against UW-M. elimination game in one ed it into a boundless sport that genera­ After retiring 10 out of while Kobe was getting used and abused The Gauchos came out tions of players could build within. And 11 Golden Panther bat­ day due to the rain, the by Old Man Karl Malone. like a team unwilling to let second game coming he changes it while his myth continues ters, Garcia ran into trou­ I’ve had enough of this discussion. their season slip away, to prosper. ble in the fifth inning. against the Fighting Irish. This is an open-and-shut case. exploding for eight runs in Laker Hall of Famer Jerry West Garcia gave up a' leadoff Notre Dame jumped A better question to ask about Kobe the first inning and a half might have the distinction of having his double, before getting a fly out 2-0 in the top of the is whether he is even the best guard in to go up 8-0. But UW-M silky silhouette graze the left corner of out for the first out of the the NBA? The league is abundant in quickly sliced the UCSB every NBA jersey and every icon blaring inning. The game went See BASEBALL, p.3A big-guard talent. Tweeners, such as lead in half, scoring four on your télévision screen, but Jordan’s downhill from there, as the Xavier McDaniel and Jeff Malone, have tongue-wagging, jump-jiving, pirouet­ died out. The fleet-footed tall men, ting summersault of a levitating man including Tracey McGrady and Paul within earthly bounds reigns supreme. Pierce, among others, are making a Unlike any other sport, Jordan is name for themselves. undoubtedly the greatest basketball The only difference? These players player to tread or fly on this planet. don’t have Shaquille O ’Neal clogging Kobe is a spectacular, but he cannot the middle. McGrady has Bo Outlaw, reach the pinnacle that is Jordan. and Pierce has Vitaly Potapenko. These Though there is more to the game than guys couldn’t guard molasses. scoring, Kobe has never even reached Pierce is my personal favorite. He’s the 50-point barrier in a game. Yet. the player who is most comfortable on Kobe has impressed me with his com­ the court with his own skills and with mand and fire for the game. I noticed integrating them in a blue-collar Boston something eerily similar about the play­ Celtics club. Kobe’s got the flash of ers while watching Kobe recently. Both L.A., Pierce is bringing the Celts back athletes conserve their energy for to respectability with no help extended spurts of domination. Both If people keep bringing this Kobe- have a swagger and touch around the Jordan debate up, all they have to do is hardwood that is unique to each player. watch one game with Jordan. But what about results? W hat about How can you describe M.J.? Larry TR UC BUI / DAILY NEXUS the hardware? Bird phrased it best: “God disguised as Kobe hasn’t racked up any list of Senior designated hitter Mike Kolbach dives back to first base. 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