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I’ve been toiling away in an office in Mott Gym for the past six months and had to come out of retirement. The new crop of Mustang Daily columnists has produced plenty of professional sport analysis, but how about some attention to the Cal Poly campus?
With a historic event on the horizon, I had to come out of retirement and give Cal Poly athletics a voice since no other columnist has.
The Cal Poly men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, which have broken seven of their prior records since the beginning of the season in September, compete today through Saturday in the 2008 Big West Championships today at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach.
Just when it seemed as if the Cal Poly men’s basketball team couldn’t have any worse luck, it was struck with another blow – or more specifically, another injury.
Mustangs sophomore guard Lorenzo Keeler is out indefinitely with a possible stress fracture, Cal Poly head coach Kevin Bromley said Monday.
Bouncing back from Saturday’s tough loss at San Diego, the Cal Poly men’s tennis team picked up a 5-2 win over Santa Clara on Monday, improving its record to 4-3.
The Mustangs dominated, sweeping all three doubles matches and dropping only two of six singles matches.
The Cal Poly softball team lost twice Sunday in Las Vegas at the UNLV-hosted Louisville Slugger Desert Classic, in which it fell in all five of its games. In the first, the Mustangs (2-8) lost 7-5 in eight innings to Wisconsin. Junior shortstop Melissa Pura was 2 for 2 for Cal Poly, while senior Sarah Iwata went 2 for 5 with two runs and an RBI.
“Too often the intelligence of black athletes is negated,” Spike Lee once told an interviewer. “(It’s presented as if) we come out of the womb dunking and running. There’s hard work involved. That stuff is never talked about.”
‘Oh, but that’s just Spike Lee – a dogmatic zealot with an axe to grind,’ right?
Wrong.
At 6-foot-2, Lisa McBride uses her height to benefit her on the basketball court, but when she started playing, she wasn’t nearly that tall.
She began when she was 4 years old on a YMCA team that was coached by her mom and continued to play as she grew through elementary school, junior high and high school, as well as on club teams.
A little more than a year ago, the Cal Poly men’s basketball team did something it had done just once since 1959: win at UC Santa Barbara. Because the Big West Conference rivals each returned many of their key contributors, coaches and media picked both the Central Coast squads to finish atop the conference, with UCSB in first.
Sweeping Cal State Fullerton 7-0 Sunday was elating for the Cal Poly women’s tennis team a day after falling 5-2 to UC Irvine.
Against the Titans, the Mustangs doubles teams won all three matches, followed by an overwhelming shutdown in singles square-offs, which were all decided in two sets.
Though the wind was blowing and conditions were not ideal, the Cal Poly women’s golf team finished on top Tuesday at the third annual Lady Braveheart Challenge at the Oak Valley Golf Course in Beaumont.
It was the ninth tournament victory for the women’s golf team since the program was launched eight years ago.
Not many teams can say they have winning streaks in The Thunderdome.
In fact, the Cal Poly women’s basketball team is the only school in the Big West Conference to have won each of its last two games at UC Santa Barbara.
So the Mustangs have nothing to worry about when they tip off against the Gauchos at 2 p.
