By losing eight of their last 10 games, the usual break in the spring could be marked as an unwelcoming one for the Matadors. The CSUN baseball team is 32 games into the 2011 season, roughly halfway in, and they sport a .500 record at 16-16 and a winless 0-3 Big West mark through the first weekend of conference play. CSUN head coach Matt Curtis said the results are what they are and one cannot argue with the final scores,… Read more

The outcomes of the last home games for the four seniors at Matador Pool could not have been any sweeter as the Matadors won both games this weekend against Big West rival UC Santa Barbara and non-conference opponent Cal Baptist. “It’s sad to think this is my last home game and I will miss it, but it’s a good stamp winning these two games today and going undefeated at home,” Sydney Sonoda said. The No. 16 Cal State Northridge water polo… Read more

The third period was a struggle for the Matadors at the start of the season. There were mistake-filled third periods in which the other teams were capitalizing on opportunities and CSUN had no answer for. Well the last two Big West games for the Cal State Northridge water polo team depicted a different third period story in the game against UC Davis Saturday and Pacific. The Matadors scored a combined 12 goals while holding their opponents to four. “Once we… Read more

Building confidence in a young CSUN team has been one of the main goals coming into Big West Play. For the No. 17 Matador water polo team, it showed just how confident they are in a 14-13 win over No. 15 UC Davis at Matador Pool. “I looked at Heidi (Pettinger) Sydney (Sonoda) and Whitney (Delgado) and as a coach you look at them and they looked confident, cool calm and collected,” coach Marcelo Leonardi said. “It was an emotional… Read more

CSUN’s Iranian Student Association commemorated Persian New Year by organizing a celebratory event on Wednesday in the USU’s Plaza del Sol. Persian New Year commemorates the first day of spring and has been celebrated for over 1,000 years in the area that makes up modern-day Iran. “It is Persian New Year, so every year we (the Iranian Student Association) have this event where we want to get people at CSUN to interact and get to know the Persian culture,” Sorme… Read more

Coming off a two-week break, the CSUN water polo team will start Big West play starting this weekend when it will face the UC Davis Aggies and Pacific Tigers. Northridge (16 -11) is coming off two victories and players seem optimistic about going into conference play. “We feel really good. The two-week break was good for us before conference because we have been conditioning and we went back to working on our basics with our shooting, skill work and improving… Read more

CSUN commemorated César Chávez Day with a keynote speech given by his granddaughter in the first annual César Chávez Service Fair. The event, which was co-hosted by Unified We Serve and the Department of Chicano/a Studies comes two days before the state holiday that honors the farm worker leader. “It is important to remember that my grandfather’s vision of education went beyond personal ambition and individual desire,” said Natalie Hernandez during her speech. “He reminded us that we cannot seek… Read more

A battle between gravity and the human body ensues as Leticia Garcia attempts to balance herself on a log smack dab in the middle of the San Gabriel River. She manages to remain upright by gripping a rope supported by two groups of men flanking opposite sides of the riverbed. The men concentrate on keeping it as steady as possible so Garcia can hold on to it and successfully cross the river. All is quiet as the 21-year-old child development major… Read more

With great flexibility, movement and an array of music, Aszure Barton and Artists left the audience of their VPAC show on Saturday mesmerized by their stunning modern dance performance. Aszure Barton, a Canada native, is the founder and director of the Aszure Barton & Artists dance project, currently based in New York. Since its formation in 2002, this performance team has become an internationally recognized group, known for their arresting choreography for stage and film. The 105-minute show Saturday was… Read more