Repeat win at SDSU reaps attention

See photos and hear interview from the Cal Poly vs. San Diego State game at Qualcomm Stadium.

Because of potential effects of Hurricane Ike on Lake Charles, La., Cal Poly’s football game there Saturday night against McNeese State was canceled by school officials Thursday morning.

“This decision was made in the interest of safety for our fans,” McNeese State president Robert Hebert said in a news release.

This story was posted at 7:17 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8. In light of his team’s recent field-goal struggles, Cal Poly football head coach Rich Ellerson said Monday there will be open competition for kicking duties. The season started on an emotional high for junior Andrew Gardner, who booted a game-winning 21-yarder as time expired to carry the Mustangs over San Diego State 29-27 in each team’s opener Aug.

What a difference a week makes.

Andrew Gardner, with tears of joy left on his face, was serenaded Aug. 30 after kicking a 21-yard field goal as time expired to carry the Cal Poly football team over San Diego State 29-27 and send his teammates into jubilation at their season-opening win.

This story was posted at 1:29 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6. The No. 2 Nebraska women’s volleyball team was eager to show its newly anointed high ranking was no fluke. Playing before a raucous crowd of Cal Poly supporters, the Cornhuskers did just that. Nebraska (5-0) easily handled the No.

Bobby Hauck has been telling anyone who will listen that his team isn’t all that great.

“I didn’t vote for us,” the head coach of the Montana football team said of his Grizzlies, ranked sixth in this week’s Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) coaches poll.

It was the best of halves; it was the worst of halves for Cal Poly football head coach Rich Ellerson and his defensive unit at San Diego State on Saturday.

In the first half, the young defense would tally a safety and allow its Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) opponent just seven points en route to a 16-7 halftime lead.

SAN DIEGO – Andrew Gardner earned himself a new nickname Saturday night, on the biggest stage of his life.

By splitting the uprights with a 21-yard field goal as time expired, the 5-foot-7, 162-pound junior gave his Cal Poly football team a 29-27 win at San Diego State, making the Mustangs the only Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) team in the opening week of college football to successfully swing up at a Football Bowl Subdivision (I-A) counterpart, sending the sizable Cal Poly gathering of the 26,851 at Qualcomm Stadium into pandemonium.

After a 2007 that saw the Cal Poly men’s soccer team put together its best season at the Division I level, it’s ready to make the playoffs this year.

Only three of 33 players graduated from last year’s Mustangs, who finished 11-4-4 overall and third in the Big West Conference at 6-2-4.

Expectations are as high as they’ve ever been for the Cal Poly women’s volleyball team.

Ranked No. 10 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association preseason poll, the two-time defending Big West Conference champion Mustangs open the season Friday at Oklahoma’s Hilton Nike Invitational.