Cal Poly Baseball’s historic season came to an end on Saturday afternoon in Morgantown, W.Va., with a 17-1 loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers.
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Cal Poly Baseball puts up 14 unanswered runs to advance to the Los Angeles Regional finals
The Mustangs (38-22) dispatched fellow West Coast mid-major Saint Mary’s Gaels (35-26) with offensive flair 14-1 Saturday night at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
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Cal Poly Baseball defeats Virginia Tech, moves within one win of the Los Angeles Regional final
On the back of a strong performance from starter Griffin Naess and a balanced offensive attack, the Mustangs (37-22) took down the Hokies (30-25) 6-2 in their first game of the NCAA Tournament.
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The $500,000 ‘Black Box’: How Cal Poly Baseball beat national powerhouses to the cutting edge of sports science
With KinaTrax, Cal Poly is able to separate itself from most college programs due to its ability to use the data to tweak mechanics to improve performance and prevent injury.
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Cal Poly Baseball keeps winning, but does the NCAA even care?
One of the main metrics that the postseason selection committee uses when choosing the field is Ratings Percentage Index.
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Cal Poly Baseball claims Big West title in win over UC San Diego
For the second straight season, Cal Poly has captured the conference title, doing so with a 4-3 win over No. 3 seed UC San Diego on Sunday.
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Cal Poly falls to UC San Diego in Big West Championship, forces winner-take-all game for conference title
No. 3 seed UC San Diego took it to the Mustangs in the teams’ second matchup of the tournament, with the Tritons winning 12-2 in eight innings. The two teams will meet again for a winner-take-all game on Sunday at 12 p.m.
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Late-inning heroics propel Cal Poly over UC Santa Barbara to advance to the Big West Championship game
This season, the Mustangs were swept by UC Santa Barbara in the regular season, the only Big West squad to take all three regular-season matchups from Cal Poly. The script in the tournament rematch this year demanded a rewrite, and Cal Poly dispatched the Gauchos 4-2 at Cicerone Field on Friday.
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Cal Poly Baseball’s ace in the hole
The thing that never escaped Naess was his big game pitching. Last year he opened the Big West tournament by shutting down Fullerton, then followed it up with a dominant but unlucky outing against Arizona where he gave up just two hits over seven innings.
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Naess, Mustangs outduel UC San Diego in Big West Tournament Opener
Griffin Naess willed the Mustangs to victory over the Tritons in their first game of the Big West Championship tournament, a narrow 1-0 win that sets up a date with UC Santa Barbara on Friday.
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Ryan Tayman and Alejandro Garza headline Cal Poly Baseball’s 11 All-Big West selections
After finishing in a tie for first place in the competitive Big West Conference, Cal Poly Baseball took home 11 All-Big West selections, the most of any team in the Big West.