The maxim that “little things make a difference” is affirmed in millions of ways every day, but perhaps never so explicitly as in the game of baseball. Case in point: The key hit in Santa Barbara High’s 4-0 victory over Dos Pueblos last Friday, April 27, was a bunt.
She’s big, she’s powerful, she plays center on the world’s best team, but don’t come to a water polo game expecting Kami Craig to score a ton of goals. Her role on offense is to occupy as many defenders as possible and create openings for other shooters. In six games with the gold-medal winning U.S. women’s team at last month’s FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia, Craig was credited with three goals.
The scorched nets at S.B. City College’s Sports Pavilion gave testimony to the talent of the Santa Barbara Breakers last Friday night, but the subsequent cooling off showed that the International Basketball League team is a work in progress. The Breakers made 72 percent of their shots while whipping the Seattle Mountaineers, 135-105, in their home debut, but they lost to the same team 24 hours later, 118-113, when they failed to execute down the stretch.
The mothers were magnificent in the mother of all relay races.
Q-Angle, a team loaded with maternity-four of its five members are mothers with a combined nine children-outpaced all others Saturday in Santa Barbara County’s longest organized run. It goes by the challenging title, “Are You Tough Enough?”
Brad Ebner has reached two milestones that were once a dim hope. On March 2, he turned 18 years old. Today, March 29, he is six months into his new life.
After a string of early upsets-including the emphatic elimination of UCSB’s men-the Big West Basketball Tournament came down to the best against the best Saturday at the Anaheim Convention Center.
March Madness is heating up this week in Anaheim, where UCSB’s Gauchos are among the college basketball teams facing a do-or-die scenario. It is the national pastime at this time of year-hundreds of teams striving to earn one of the 64 berths in the NCAA tournament that begins next Thursday, March 15. They will be seeded No. 1 through No. 16 in four regions, an orderly picture that will become mish-mashed in a matter of hours when the first upsets occur.
