Category: Sports

michael mullady Track and field athletes have some new leadership and talent to look up to this season now that Jack Hoyt and two of his former athletes have joined the Cal Poly team. After six seasons as head coach with Seattle Pacific University in Washington, Hoyt decided to step up to a Division I […]

sheila sobchik The Mustang wrestling team is currently going through the toughest part of its 2006 schedule having just returned from Oklahoma. Cal Poly was dominated by the defending national champions, Oklahoma State, and lost to Oklahoma, both by the score of 38-6. Things will not get easier for Cal Poly this weekend as the […]

michael mullady The men’s basketball team will lose two scholarships as a result of the first academic progress report based on information collected from the 2003-04 and 2004-05 academic years. Although the official list of NCAA teams with violations will not be made public until February, Cal Poly Athletic Director Alison Cone and men’s basketball […]

Frank Stranzl The Dawin Whiten show came to town in the second half of the men’s basketball game on Saturday, leading the Mustangs to a 74-62 win over rival UC Santa Barbara. Whiten scored 19 second-half points after a shaky first half to lead the Mustangs with 24 total. “I got some good looks (in […]

For only the second time in over 22 years, the Cal Poly women’s basketball team has beaten UC Santa Barbara. Senior guard Michelle Henke scored a career-high 21 points, sinking five of ten 3-pointers, to lead the Mustangs to an 82-71 victory over the Gauchos on Saturday before 998 spectators at The Thunderdome. It is […]

Bradford Applin Referee Reform By: Bradford Applin   When inquired as to my position on the mind-numbing weekend of football that was the NFL Divisional Playoffs, I thought it best to take a cue from everyone’s favorite MasterCard spokesman, Peyton Manning: “I’m trying to be a good fan here-but we had referee problems.”  Not to […]

michael mullady The Central Coast rivalry between Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara will be the hot topic this weekend as the men’s basketball team hosts the Gauchos at 4 p.m. in Mott Gym on Saturday. Cal Poly, coming off a 65-52 loss to UC Davis last Saturday, looks to end a three-game losing streak […]

brennan angel The tie for second place in Big West women’s basketball will be snapped on Saturday at the Thunderdome in Goleta. Cal Poly (8-6 overall, 3-1 Big West) will take on archrival UC Santa Barbara (8-7, 3-1) in a crucial conference match-up. “They have tall inside players,” Cal Poly’s leading scorer Jessica Eggleston said. […]

Sheila Sobchik As the big wave season continues in full effect on the Central Coast, surfers out to buy themselves a new stick may be a little shocked by the prices on the racks, where surfboards are going for $100 to $400 more. In December, Clark Foam, the world’s largest supplier of surfboard blanks, abruptly […]

brennan angel file photo With four seasons of absolute havoc under his belt, Cal Poly defensive-end Chris Gocong is looking to take his game to the next level of competition after being invited to the 2006 NFL scouting combine. Gocong, ranked No. 19 in the pre-draft defensive-end rankings according to Scott Wright’s NFL Draft Countdown, […]

The men’s and women’s swim teams lost dual meets to Cal State Northridge on Friday and the women’s team lost dual meets to the Univeristy of Nevada-Reno and San Diego State the next day. First-place finishes in men’s competition came from Nate Williams in the 100-backstroke (53.34), John Michelmore in the 100-breaststroke (59.31) and 200-breaststroke […]