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The Cal Poly women’s basketball team routed Idaho 77-60 Saturday to finish the Courtyard by Marriott San Luis Obispo Holiday Beach Classic 2-0.
The Mustangs (4-2) were led by senior forward Megan Harrison’s 17 points. She also contributed four assists.
Cal Poly trailed for just 22 seconds before a 3-pointer by sophomore guard Rachel Clancy gave the Mustangs the lead for good six minutes into the contest.
Cal Poly wrestler Filip Novachkov defeated No. 17 Ryan Prater of Illinois 9-8 in the championship match of the 141-pound bracket at the Missouri Open on Sunday.
Novachkov won a 12-0 major decision in his first match over Indianapolis’ Irwin Matt. He also pinned third-seeded Eric Graham in 1:09 and defeated No.
With two runners finishing in the top 100, the Cal Poly men’s cross country team took 23rd place with 513 points at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. on Monday afternoon.
“I thought that the team had a solid effort today,” Mustangs head coach Mark Conover said in a news release.
The Cal Poly men’s water polo club team came up short Nov. 16 at the National Collegiate Club Water Polo Championships in Athens, Ohio.
The Mustangs took second place, losing to Michigan State 15-13 in the final game.
“We scored 13 goals and that should always be enough to win,” Mustangs junior driver Josh Mix said.
This story was posted at 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26. Cal Poly football players darted around Mott Gym’s basketball court Wednesday morning, tucked away from rain that forced them to move practice inside from its typical setting at the I Field. “I think it’s the second time I’ve done it since I’ve been here,” redshirt junior linebacker Carlton Gillespie said.
This story was posted at 11:40 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29. For months, defenses had tried to get the ball out of the hands of the Cal Poly football team’s offense. To say they failed would be something of an understatement. Cal Poly entered its Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) first-round playoff game against Weber State leading the FCS in both yards (481.
In Susanna Sonnenberg’s honest and riveting memoir, “Her Last Death,” she displays her menacing childhood in crisp, fresh prose, painting a sordid picture of what is was like growing up with a drug-addicted mother. This was no cliché addiction story however, and although the typical overdosing, binging and disasters all find their home in Sonnenberg’s book, they are accompanied by a glamorous, exciting whirlwind of personality.
Last week, Governor Schwarzenegger held an International Summit on Climate Change. Governors from Kansas, Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin and international representatives from China, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, India, European Commission and the United Nations participated in a symbolic signing of a declaration to stop rainforest cutting in Indonesia and the Amazon.
JOSH AYERS/MUSTANG DAILY Compared to others in the county, the Cal Poly Pier is a monster. A good monster though. One that has facilitated the marine experience for Cal Poly students and recently other regional schools as well as marine-related industry. “The pier is administered through the College of Science and Math but it’s really a campus-wide resource and even bigger,” said pier facility manager Tom Moylan.
While most were riveted to their television sets watching the Southern California fires rage two weeks ago, firefighters were called to San Luis Obispo to fend off yet another potentially devastating fire.
Caused by electricity from arching power lines connecting with the dry grass in the hills behind El Cerrito Court above Flora Street, the fire started about 8:30 a.
Fresh off its first NCAA Tournament win ever, the Cal Poly men’s soccer team will have an opportunity to advance its historic season tonight.
The Mustangs, who topped UCLA 1-0 in the first round Friday, will visit UC Irvine at 7 tonight.
On Oct. 22, Cal Poly battled then-No.
