Cal Poly Baseball wrapped up their second Big West Conference series with an upset against Blue-Green rival and No. 25 UC Santa Barbara on Sunday, taking two out of three games. After starting the year off 2-7, the Mustangs (12-10, 4-2 Big West) are since 10-2 and are right in the mix at the top […]
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Ramuno, Clements propel Cal Poly Softball to series win over UC Riverside
After a 22-game stretch on the road, Cal Poly softball finally opened play at Bob Janssen Field with a three-game series win over UC Riverside. The only loss of the series came in game one of Saturday’s doubleheader in an extra-innings thriller, as the team suffered a 4-3 loss in 10 innings. Despite the loss, […]
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Cal Poly Women’s Basketball falls in the first round of the WNIT to Pacific
Cal Poly Women’s Basketball fell to the Pacific Tigers 63-43 on Thursday, March 21, in the first round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament at the Alex G. Spanos Center. The Mustangs’ (17-13) appearance against Pacific (18-14) in the WNIT was its fourth time receiving an invite in program history. The Mustangs were without senior […]
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Cal Poly Baseball opens Big West play with series win over CSU Northridge
Cal Poly Baseball grabbed their first Big West series win this past weekend against CSU Northridge in Baggett Stadium. The Mustangs (10-9, 2-1 Big West) were very close to completing the sweep after taking the first two games of the series, but a late comeback from the Matadors (10-9, 1-2 Big West) in Sunday’s finale […]
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Ramuno continues stellar season, Cal Poly Softball sweeps CSU Northridge
In their conference opener this weekend, Cal Poly softball propelled themselves to the top of the Big West standings as they swept CSU Northridge in three games on the road. The Mustangs (13-9, 3-0 Big West) kicked things off with a doubleheader Saturday against the Matadors (16-10, 0-3 Big West) and closed the series with […]
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Dunkle sisters continue hot streak as Cal Poly Women’s Tennis cruises past UC San Diego
Cal Poly cruised to a 6-1 victory against its Big West rival on the road against the UC San Diego Tritons. The Mustangs (7-6, 2-1 Big West) have not lost to the Tritons (5-11, 1-4 Big West) since 2019. Dunkle sisters continue their successful season Cal Poly’s doubles got off to a strong start, giving […]
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Offensive Struggles Lead to Mustangs Elimination from Big West Championship
Throughout the season, two things have consistently hurt Cal Poly Women’s Basketball: slow starts and turning the ball over. Unfortunately for the Mustangs, both of these issues showed up once again, but this time in the biggest game of their season. Cal Poly dropped the quarter-final of the Big West tournament against UC Davis on […]
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Cal Poly Women’s Tennis splits weekend against LMU and CSUN
Cal Poly women’s tennis suffered a narrow defeat on Saturday by a score of 4-3 to Cal State University, Northridge before taking down Loyola Marymount University 4-3 the day after at the Matador Tennis Complex. It was the Mustangs (6-6, 1-1 Big West) first conference match since playing UC Davis on Feb. 3. Narrow defeat […]
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‘Resilient spirit’: How Cal Poly Women’s Basketball earned a first round bye in the Big West Championship
Heading into the second year of head coach Shanele Stires’ tenure at Cal Poly, the Women’s Basketball program was surrounded by many questions. Would the team be able to improve from their 10-18 season last year? Will the four returning players and nine newcomers be able to mesh? Will they have the same resilience we […]
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Cal Poly Beach Volleyball wins all four match-ups in Long Beach tournament
Cal Poly Beach Volleyball celebrated their new No. 11 ranking in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll with a sweep at their tournament over the weekend in Long Beach, Calif. After facing four of the top 15-ranked opponents last weekend, the Mustangs (10-2) are now the second-highest-ranked team in the Big West. The Mustangs started […]
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Women’s Basketball strong 4th quarter against UCSD secures top-four placement in Big West playoffs
With less than three minutes to go in a gridlocked game that would determine Cal Poly’s playoff seeding, junior guard Sidney Richards got a pass on the wing, drove hard to the hoop and scored the go-ahead bucket over the UC San Diego defenders. On the next possession down, senior forward Natalia Ackerman found Richards […]