Rough third inning dooms Gauchos in second game

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Continued from Page A3 as no one was able to get on the scoreboard. The first inning was a quick affair on both sides while the Gauchos weren’t able to bring Makayla Newsom home despite making it to third on a wild pitch. However, in the third inning, UCSB made their move. Daryn Siegel registered the team’s first home run of the season, bringing Ashley Donaldson across home plate with her as the Gauchos went up 20 in the third. UCSB scored two more runs in the fifth and sixth innings to solidify their 4-1 win over Wagner.

As mentioned above, Siegel earned a home run in today’s game while Madelyn McNally contributed a triple and Alexa Sams added a double. Along with those three, Newsom recorded two hits along with Lauren Lewis’s one hit to give the Gauchos opportunities to score. Ava Bradford was on the mound for the Gauchos as she pitched all seven innings to earn her second win of the season.

GAME 2: GAUCHOS VS LANCERS

Like the first game of the day, the first two innings of the game were scoreless and quick, not going more than four batters in each. When the third inning hit, the Lancers’ bats got hot as they scored three runs in this inning. The Gauchos were able to respond with a run of their own in the fourth, but it wasn’t enough to help them come back in this game as they dropped the second leg of the double header 31 to the Lancers.

Siegel scored the team’s only run in this game, coming across home plate thanks to Sams’ double down the right field line. Chloe Stewart also had a great offensive performance as he put up two hits in this game Siegel. McNally, Donaldson, and Sam Denehy also added to the offensive pressure.

Kristen Keller is the associate athletic director for communications and digital strategy at UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

Alethea Seto, dearly adored wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away surrounded by her loving family on February 25, 2023, at the age of 71, in Camarillo.

Born Alethea Maureen Thompson, Thea was raised in the Los Angeles area and graduated from USC with a degree in Occupational Therapy, a profession in which she was engaged throughout her life. After working at Northridge Medical Center, her adventurous spirit moved her to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she traveled in a mobile therapy van throughout Vancouver Island treating many First Nations people and making lifelong friends. Thea returned to southern California to resume a friendship with Raymond Seto. This blossomed into a marriage which blessed them with three beautiful children, Aeryn, Cassandra, and Gregory. After living in Palos Verdes for several years, the family moved to Mission Canyon in Santa Barbara, where Thea devoted her time to raising her children and volunteering at their schools (Roosevelt Elementary, Santa Barbara Middle School, and Santa Barbara High), while continuing her Occupational Therapy career at Cottage Hospital, SELPA, and a variety of home health agencies.

A lifelong mystic, Thea was devoted to living an authentic, purposeful life and seeking the divine through wisdom traditions, earth-based spirituality, and embodied practices including yoga and t’ai chi chuan. She especially enjoyed hosting tai chi retreat groups in Santa Barbara.

After all three of their children left home to attend UC Berkeley, Thea and Ray moved to Ventura County, where she continued to practice Occupational Therapy part-time, and pursued creative writing, volunteering, and healing arts. She created a second family home on the Sonoma Coast and was an active and loving presence for each of her seven grandchildren.

Thea was very proud of her children’s accomplishments. Aeryn became an executive at JP Morgan before pursuing a new path as a Presbyterian pastor. Cassandra graduated from Stanford Law School and became a litigation partner at O’Melveny & Myers. Gregory graduated from Loyola Law School with a JD and LLM in tax before joining Deloitte as an international tax attorney. However, what provided the greatest joy and Jonathan, and Julia) and their blessing her with beloved grandchildren. Thea is survived by husband Ray; children Aeryn, Cassandra, and Gregory; and grandchildren Cody, Liv, Jack, Emerson, Dean, Nathan, and Mia. She is also survived by siblings Karen, Kathleen, and David.

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Wildling Museum exhibit explores feathered friends through eyes of four contemporary artists

By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

‘Bird’s Eye View: Four Perspectives” will be on view from March 18 through Sept. 4 at the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature.

Featured will be new and recent works by artists Chris Maynard, David Tomb, Shae Warnick and Chester Wilcox.

The public is invited to celebrate the new exhibit at an opening reception from 3 to 5 p.m. March 19 at the Wildling, 1511-B Mission Drive in Solvang.

“People live among more than an estimated 10,000 bird species worldwide. These animals uniquely inform the works of the four artists featured in this exhibition,” said Stacey OtteDemangate, Wildling Museum executive director. “Realistic wood carvings by Chester Wilcox, intricately shaped and carved feathers by Chris Maynard, a handcrafted fabric bird doll aviary by Shae Warnick and an immersive wetland environment installation by David Tomb — all express the magic, mystery and incredible diversity of the avian world.

“ ‘Bird’s Eye View’ will also explore the impact of birds in our world,” she continued. “Many bird species serve as valuable pollinators. Others eat insects and rodents that would otherwise decimate gardens and vegetation, and some help to disperse plant seeds, playing a vital role in biodiversity.”

Birds were always a part of Mr. Maynard’s childhood. As a young person, he took refuge in the woods around his home in Washington state, where, his head nestled in moss, he watched the birds up in the tall trees. He began working with feathers at age 12.

Today, Mr. Maynard carves feathers into intricate art to make their natural beauty more noticeable. His work highlights the patterns and colors of the feathers themselves, inviting the viewer to look and look again. For him, feathers represent flight, transformation and a bridge between our present lives and our dreams. He displays his work in shadow boxes, a signature art form he developed.

Mr. Maynard works with feathers from turkeys, parrots, peacocks and other birds and crafts them into scenes that are displayed in his world-renowned shadow boxes. A conservationist at heart, Mr. Maynard obtains the feathers legally. Many of them are naturally shed, which means that the birds they came from may still be alive today.

His work is included in private collections and featured in publications in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. His 2014 book, “Feathers, Form and Function,” highlights his work and tells stories about what feathers are, what roles they fill for birds and why people find them alluring.

Mr. Tomb received his bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and drawing in 1984 from Cal State Long Beach. Since then, he has maintained studios in Oakland, New York, San Francisco and currently Marin County.

Mr. Tomb has exhibited in more than 100 group exhibitions and nearly 40 solo exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. His most recent solo exhibition, “Rock and Rockfowl,” was on view at the Fresno Art Museum in 2018.

His work, “Monumentally Fragile: Large Scale Work,” is currently in a three-person show at the College of the Desert.

In addition, Mr. Tomb’s work is in many public collections, including the embassies of the United States, Manila, the Philippines and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; art collections of the Consulate General of the United States, Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana; and collections at the fine arts museums of San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California, Huntington Library Art Collections in San Marino, Arkansas Art Center, Crystal Bridges Museum