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Having lost 10 of 12, the Cal Poly baseball team will try to get back in the win column in a non-conference game against Pepperdine at 3 p.m. today in Eddy D. Field Stadium in Malibu.
Junior southpaw Jared Eskew (1-1, 2.92 ERA) will start for the Mustangs (9-17, 1-5 Big West Conference), who were swept over the weekend at Cal State Northridge.
After a tough loss to Pacific the day before, the Cal Poly men’s tennis team bounced back in a big way against UC Davis on Sunday, defeating the Aggies 6-1.
“It’s hard to get up after a heartbreaking 4-3 loss, but I’m really proud of the way our guys competed today,” Mustangs head coach Justin McGrath said.
The Cal Poly women’s tennis team lost its fourth-straight match Friday, 7-0 to Big West Conference power Long Beach State at Mustang Courts.
“It was a tough match,” said Mustangs sophomore Brittany Blalock. “But we’re a bunch of perfectionists, so there’s a bunch of things we can work on and improve upon.
Cal Poly senior Sharon Day won the women’s high jump at the 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, Texas on Saturday by clearing 5 feet, 8 _ inches. Junior Julieann Dufresne, an NCAA West Regional-qualifying discus thrower, came in 10th in that event at 153-5.
Although a search for a desired 12th game continues, the Cal Poly football program released Thursday an 11-game schedule for the upcoming season currently including two byes and six home games.
Opening and concluding the Mustangs’ regular season will be contests against Football Bowl Subdivision teams, Aug.
For the first time since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, all four No. 1 seeds made the Final Four. All the brackets, all the coverage, all the hype, and it comes down to this weekend in San Antonio. This tournament has been called one of the greatest events, if not the greatest, in all of sports, and by all accounts it has lived up to the hype.
Two of the Big West Conference’s three softball teams still undefeated in conference play will spar this weekend, as Cal Poly visits UC Santa Barbara for a three-game series beginning Saturday at the Gauchos’ Campus Diamond. The defending Big West champion Mustangs (15-13, 3-0), who have won five straight, swept Cal State Fullerton last weekend, 9-1 and 1-0 Saturday before edging the Titans 2-1 Sunday.
Need inspiration? Meet Christine Silva, who has overcome a broken wrist from a year ago to become one of the top pole vaulters not only in the Big West Conference, but in the entire country.
The 5-foot-5 Silva won the UCLA Invitational on March 8 with a clearance of 12 feet, 9 « inches – an improvement from her 12-8 ¬ mark at the Husky Invitational in Seattle on Feb.
Since announcing Feb. 22 a game at Wisconsin scheduled for Nov. 22, the Cal Poly football program has struggled to fill out a desired 12-game slate for the upcoming season. After a lengthy, unsuccessful search for a final opponent that failed to make that calendar a reality, though, an 11-game schedule will likely be announced soon, Cal Poly athletic director Alison Cone said Tuesday.
Cal Poly is now among five candidates being seriously considered to host five high school football state championship games over a weekend in December, a California Interscholastic Federation official said Tuesday. On-campus Alex G. Spanos Stadium would serve as the San Luis Obispo venue for the 2008 CIF State Football Championship Bowl Games, and is one of seven sites still officially being evaluated.
Four days after winning its second tournament title in a row, and its sixth in school history, the Cal Poly men’s golf team finished tied for second among 12 teams at the UC Santa Barbara-hosted OGIO-Pacific Coast Intercollegiate on Tuesday.
The Mustangs carded an 875 total at Rancho San Marcos Golf Course in Santa Barbara to tie with Boise State, 20 strokes behind Cal State Northridge, which led from start to finish.
