{"id":84487,"date":"2025-12-07T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84487\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:45:09","slug":"womens-basketball-opens-conference-play-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84487\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Basketball Opens Conference Play 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/utah_tech200x200.png\" alt=\"Utah Tech\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Utah Tech<\/p>\n<p>12\/13\/2025 | 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Dec. 13 (Sat) \/ 2 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/utah_tech200x200.png\" alt=\"Utah Tech\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Utah Tech&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/opponent-history\/utah-tech\/345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The UC Santa Barbara Women&#8217;s Basketball team took on Cal State Bakersfield today for their second road game of the weekend and their second Big West Conference game of the season.\u00a0 The Gauchos put up a score of 67-47 to nab the win and open the season 8-1 for the first time since 1987.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCal State Bakersfield had the lead for the first and only time at 2-0. The Gauchos got to work quickly, and before the Roadrunners knew it, <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/zoe-borter\/7212\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7212\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Borter<\/a> had made five points in a row to make it 12-4 Santa Barbara. They held CSUB to a sole three buckets and left the first on top 16-6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Gauchos entered the second quarter ahead by ten and immediately upgraded to be ahead by 16. A couple of layups and free throws put the Gauchos in an advantageous situation. Bakersfield was allowed an eight point run to bring the score to 24-16, but the Gauchos rounded up another batch of points before halftime and finished the first portion of the game 32-20.<\/p>\n<p>In the third, the Gauchos made 22 points compared to Cal State Bakersfield&#8217;s 10 to finish it 54-30. The fourth quarter saw a vast 30 point lead by the Gauchos, as they reached an epic 60-30 standing. The Roadrunners ran a 17 point comeback, but the Gauchos still finished ahead by 20 at 67-47.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/zoe-borter\/7212\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7212\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Borter<\/a> had a bountiful, career-best day, going five-for-five in three point shots and sinking 25 total points. Her sum also serves as the most points a Gaucho has made this season. She shot 63% overall and made all six of her free-throw attempts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/skylar-burke\/7214\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7214\" target=\"_blank\">Skylar Burke<\/a> had her first double-point game of the season, clinching 11 points and securing the second-highest count for Santa Barbara. <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/bojana-radnjic\/7224\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7224\" target=\"_blank\">Bojana Radnjic<\/a> made her first career three-pointer and Valentina her first career field goal. <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/ava-rawlins\/7645\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7645\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Rawlins<\/a> had a season and career-best three rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/olivia-bradley\/7213\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7213\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Bradley<\/a> led the charge in rebounds, pulling seven, while <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/maddie-naro\/7642\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7642\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Naro<\/a> led in assists in typical fashion with five. The Gauchos had five steals as a whole as well as 15 assists.<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Gauchos head to Utah Valley University on Dec. 13 before having their final home game of the calendar year against Eastern Washington on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Utah Tech 12\/13\/2025 | 2 p.m. &#13; Dec. 13 (Sat) \/ 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-84487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}