Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com Hit after hit and run after run, the Cal Poly Baseball team (23-8, 5-2 Big West Conference) let its play do the talking as it cruised to a series-opening 8-3 victory over Hawaii on Friday night. After losing two of three to rival UC Santa Barbara last weekend, senior right-hander Joey Wagman […]
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Baseball heaven: sports writer reflects on attending spring training
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com Lemonade, lemonade like Grandma made! That’s the distinctive jingle of Derek Moore, perhaps the most boisterous and charismatic lemonade vendor in all of Major League Baseball. And if you’re a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan like myself, you’ve heard Moore’s crunchy baritone lemonade-hook at Scottsdale Stadium, the Giants’ Spring Training complex in […]
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Wagman pitches Poly past Irish
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com The sun didn’t set over Baggett Stadium until the fifth inning, but starting pitcher Joey Wagman’s performance between the first three innings and the last six was night and day. The No. 20 Cal Poly baseball team (15-2) defeated No. 17 Notre Dame (10-5) behind a complete game, 12-strikeout night for Wagman, […]
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Baseball keeps cruising, defeats Holy Cross 6-1
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com The Cal Poly baseball team won its 10th game in its last 11 after defeating Holy Cross 6-1 on Tuesday night in game one of this week’s two-game, nonconference matchup. Head coach Larry Lee’s reaction? “We’ll take it.” But even after Lee’s Mustangs scored its second highest run total of the season […]
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Minor leagues are big steps for former Mustangs
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com Baseball players are no strangers to trades. And four members of the 2012 Cal Poly baseball team made a pretty big one: camaraderie for career. “In pro ball you’re fighting each other for a spot,” former Cal Poly relief pitcher Nick Grim said. “You can be friends with a pitcher, but at […]
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Mustangs off to historic 6-0 start
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com Pitching and defense. Those were head coach Larry Lee’s two keys to success for the Cal Poly baseball team coming into 2013. And for the second night in a row, pitching kept the Mustangs alive before the bats heated up, as they topped Seattle University 1-0 at Baggett Stadium. “You have to […]
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Teacher of the year comes back to Cal Poly
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com It’s like the San Francisco 49ers asking the Oakland Raiders how to play football. But teachers in countries that outscore the United States in standardized tests are looking to American educators for inspiration, 2012 National Teacher of the Year Rebecca Mieliwocki said. Mieliwocki, a 1990 Cal Poly alumna, spent the past year […]
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Wrestling falls to Central Michigan in final dual
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com The Cal Poly Wrestling team’s regular season ended on a familiar note this weekend. The Mustangs (2-10, 0-6 Pac-12) suffered their sixth and seventh consecutive dual meet losses, falling to Arizona State, 38-3, on the road Friday, and No. 12 Central Michigan, 41-6, in Mott Athletics Center on Sunday, topping off a disappointing […]
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Baseball starts 2013 season on the road
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com The Cal Poly baseball team had a season to remember last year. The Mustangs led the Big West Conference in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, home runs, RBIs, total bases, slugging percentage and on-base percentage, and finished the 2012 season on a tear. They won 14 of their final 17 games, landing […]
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Devon Lotito trades suits for singlets
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing@mustangdaily.net On a college freshman, a three-piece suit and fedora stand out. It’s a unique fashion, a throwback to the 1920s Frank Sinatra era and a look that’s not exactly common amongst 19-year-olds. But for Devon Lotito, a freshman on the Cal Poly wrestling team, it’s the everyday wardrobe of choice. The 133-pounder […]
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Schlemer leads Cal Poly women past UCSB
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com For the Cal Poly women’s basketball team, the theme this season has been consistent. Step up and fill the void. Without Kristina Santiago, Ashlee Burns and Christine Martin, three of last season’s top five scorers, the Mustangs have had to play a different brand of basketball. Saturday was no different, as Cal […]