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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Royer’s 20 points lead ‘Stangs by Aggies
Stephan Teodosescu steodosescu@mustangdaily.net The last time senior guard Dylan Royer faced UC Davis, he exploded for a then career-high 19 points against the Aggies on Jan 10. Since then, the Morro Bay High School graduate hadn’t been able to find his groove from his favored spot on the court — beyond the arc — as […]
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Schlemer leads Cal Poly women past UCSB
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com For the Cal Poly women’s basketball team, the theme this season has been consistent. Step up and fill the void. Without Kristina Santiago, Ashlee Burns and Christine Martin, three of last season’s top five scorers, the Mustangs have had to play a different brand of basketball. Saturday was no different, as Cal […]
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Big (West) enough for Boise State?
Conference realignment has been a bit frustrating for men’s basketball head coach Joe Callero. Like many members in the collegiate sporting world, he doesn’t even try to keep up anymore. He’s tried his best to ignore the puzzle after the rapid-paced changes that have come to conference realignment in the past few years. “In terms […]
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Big West track preview
Cal Poly men’s and women’s track teams are set to compete in the Big West Conference Championship on May 11 and 12 in Irvine where they aim to improve on their third and seventh place finishes in 2011, respectively. “There will be a lot of strong competitors this year,” head coach Mark Conover said. “A […]
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Tennis clinches top seed in Big West Tournament
The Mustang men’s tennis team continued its Big West success with two 5-2 victories this weekend. The wins capped a perfect 5-0 season in Big West play and Cal Poly (12-7, 5-0) will enter the conference championships in Indian Wells, Calif., as the top-seed this Friday. The team, which is ranked No. 58 in the […]
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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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Mustangs fall to Gauchos on the road
A two-run ninth inning couldn’t save Cal Poly (20-11) baseball Tuesday afternoon as the Mustangs fell 6-5 to UC Santa Barbara. Although the game will not factor into the teams’ conference records, it halts Cal Poly’s three-game winning streak after sweeping UC Irvine over the weekend. The Mustangs scored in both the eighth and ninth […]
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Baseball opens Big West play with series loss
A triple by David Armendariz saved the Cal Poly baseball team from being no-hit on Sunday as Long Beach State topped the Mustangs 4-0 to win the series two games to one. Long Beach State’s starting pitcher Shawn Stuart allowed Armendariz’s triple off the left center field wall in the fifth inning and walked Tim […]
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Women win outright Big West title
The Cal Poly women’s basketball team is back in the Big West Tournament with a No. 1 seed for the second consecutive year after defeating Pacific 88-66 in the regular season finale. Kristina Santiago, who earned her second Big West Player of the Year award on Monday, scored 33 points in the victory and became […]
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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 […]