Cal Poly (40-17) revealed a slugger of its own, as the Mustangs defeated San Diego (35-24), 9-2, thanks to four RBIs from designated hitter Brian Mundell.
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Baseball heaven: sports writer reflects on attending spring training
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com Lemonade, lemonade like Grandma made! That’s the distinctive jingle of Derek Moore, perhaps the most boisterous and charismatic lemonade vendor in all of Major League Baseball. And if you’re a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan like myself, you’ve heard Moore’s crunchy baritone lemonade-hook at Scottsdale Stadium, the Giants’ Spring Training complex in […]
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Baseball is back: maybe better than ever
Benjy Egel is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily sports columnist. Less is more, right? For the Cal Poly baseball team, this is clearly the case. Head coach Larry Lee only lost a few players from last year’s team, but two of them were offensive monsters Mitch Haniger and Mike Miller. Some role players were […]
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Weekend recap: basketball teams go 4-0
Mustang Daily Staff Report sports@mustangdaily.net Five Cal Poly teams competed on the road this weekend to come away with a total of seven victories and an individual Pac-12 championship. Men’s basketball The men’s basketball team has started to win on the road just in time for the Big West Tournament. Having won just two games […]
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Weekend preview: Home sweet home
Mustang Daily Staff Report sports@mustangdaily.net The Cal Poly campus plays host to six Division I athletics events Thursday to Sunday, including the baseball team’s home opening series, a nonconference men’s basketball game and two women’s basketball games that could position the team for a late push for a third consecutive Big West regular season title. […]
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Baseball starts 2013 season on the road
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com The Cal Poly baseball team had a season to remember last year. The Mustangs led the Big West Conference in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, home runs, RBIs, total bases, slugging percentage and on-base percentage, and finished the 2012 season on a tear. They won 14 of their final 17 games, landing […]
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Selection committee leaves out Mustangs
Seven consecutive wins were not enough to propel the Mustang baseball team into the postseason for the first time since 2009. The team reeled off its most dominating streak of the year, winning 13 of its last 16 games, but an NCAA selection committee left Cal Poly (36-20, 16-8) out of the 64-team field. The […]
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Baseball faces critical matchup in Fullerton
At the start of the year, head coach Larry Lee knew his team had talent. How and where that would translate into success was a different story. “You just never have a very good feel, we knew that we had the capability, but sometimes it comes from different guys than you would expect so,” Lee said. “You […]
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Freshmen follow senior leaders, find success
Cal Poly baseball is off to its best start in three years. A 21-13 overall and 5-4 Big West record puts the team in third place in the Big West. The hot start is accompanied by a group of underclassmen providing key hits to bolster the Mustang office. At the head of that group are […]
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The weekend roundup
Men’s basketball The Mustangs will compete in their final two regular season games this weekend in Mott Gym as UC Davis and Pacific visit the Central Coast. After suffering an eight-point loss to UC Santa Barbara last Saturday, Cal Poly fell into a three-way tie for fourth place in the Big West. The final standings […]
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Jeff Johnson takes aim at Major Leagues
A fire-throwing, former Cal Poly baseball closer is looking to add his name to a list that includes Major Leaguers Jered Weaver, Troy Tulowitzki, Barry Zito and Evan Longoria. What do they all have in common with Jeff Johnson, Cal Poly’s devastating ninth inning man last season? Each played in the Big West Conference with […]