The early season momentum gained by the Cal Poly baseball team is all but gone. The Mustangs, losers of seven of their last 10 games, look to hang on in their final 17 regular season games with hopes of earning a trip to the NCAA Regional Championships for the first time since 2009. The Mustangs […]
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Sports psychologist helps athletes get heads in the game
He works regularly with Cal Poly athletes, but because he’s not an official employee, he doesn’t have an office, or even a desk, in Mott Gym. He regularly conducts interviews in one of Cal Poly’s busiest locations, The Avenue, but is still relatively unknown to the public eye. He’s worked with the NBA, MLB and […]
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Baseball drops series to Big West-leading Titans
The big series win didn’t come this year. A season after upsetting nationally-ranked Cal State Fullerton 2-1, the Mustangs dropped two of three games to the defending Big West champion Titans this weekend. The Mustangs started the series with a 6-1 loss against Cal State Fullerton on Friday. In the loss, the Titans got started […]
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Mustangs move into second place with sweep of Anteaters
Kyle Brueggemann spent just one year at the United States Military Academy at West Point, but he learned a lot playing for the Black Knights. Things such as discipline, balancing workloads and plain old hard work that he brought to the mound on Saturday as the Mustangs (20-10, 4-2) defeated UC Irvine 8-1 to sweep the series. […]
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Baseball clinches weekend series in nail-biter
The Mustang pitching staff continued their success during Cal Poly’s 3-2 victory over UC Irvine on Friday night. Senior left-handed pitcher Kyle Anderson went six innings and gave up one earned run on four hits, four strikeouts and two walks, but closer Chase Johnson made it interesting in the final frame before the Mustangs clinched […]
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Mustangs devour 'Eaters in series opener
Junior right-hander Joey Wagman stole the spotlight on the mound scattering eight hits over eight innings of shutout baseball while redshirt freshmen Tommy Pluschkell shone at the plate driving in two runs off a one-out double in the second inning to help the Mustangs cruise to a 6-0 win over visiting UC Irvine (17-10, 3-1 […]
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Joey Wagman shines under Friday night lights
On a warm Friday night in Danville, Calif., the lights flooded the diamond and the stars were out as Joey Wagman shone. The center fielder for the Monte Vista High School baseball team was known as the captain of the outfield, a leader in perusing the desolate stretch of grass between the diamond and the […]
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Baseball takes three games from Aztecs
Cal Poly starting pitcher Kyle Brueggeman went eight scoreless innings, gave up two hits and allowed base runners in only the third inning as the Mustangs defeated San Diego State 7-0 in the second half of a double-header on Saturday. “The last few weeks I’ve been struggling a bit,” Brueggeman said. “Today, I went back to the basics: […]
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Baseball is back
The Cal Poly baseball team will open the 2012 season this weekend with a three-game series against 2011 NCAA Regional qualifier Oklahoma State inside Baggett Stadium. The Mustangs finished the 2011 campaign with another winning season — their ninth since 2000 — posting a 27-26 overall record and going 15-9 in the Big West Conference […]
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Athletes don't mix well with alcohol
Normally, the choice to abstain from drinking alcohol is an individual one, but in the case of Cal Poly athletics, it is often a team one. There are approximately 550 student-athletes at Cal Poly, and many of them are 21 years old and older, so rather than institute a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to […]
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Baseball sweeps UC Davis in final home series
The Mustangs put up a season-high 15 hits to overcome an early three-run deficit and win their fifth series of the 2011 campaign on Sunday.