Kristina Santiago just keeps getting better and better.
The 6-foot-2 freshman took the floor as a center in her eighth start of the season Wednesday afternoon and led the Cal Poly women’s basketball team to a 76-61 win over UC Irvine at the Anaheim Convention Center in the first round of the Big West Conference Tournament.
A six-run first inning was too much to overcome for the Cal Poly baseball team in its 8-5 loss to Santa Clara on Wednesday night at Baggett Stadium. Cal Poly senior starter Grant Theophilus gave up two home runs and four hits in the first inning, as the Mustangs fell behind by six runs before they even had an at-bat.
Four wins in four days were needed by the Cal Poly men’s basketball team to win the Big West Conference Tournament, but it was a mere four shots the Mustangs were able to make in the first half of their opening-round, season-ending, 62-54 loss to UC Riverside.
A close game against Pacific hadn’t been a good thing for the Cal Poly women’s basketball team this season.
The Mustangs, though, who’d lost twice to the Tigers in overtime by a combined seven points earlier this year, rallied from a 17-point halftime deficit in the second round of the Big West Conference Tournament on Thursday, winning 79-76 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
A stretch of first-half cold shooting by the Cal Poly women’s basketball team enabled UC Santa Barbara to turn its Big West Conference Tournament semifinal into a rout and an eventual 77-57 win Friday afternoon at the Anaheim Convention Center.
The top-seeded Gauchos, who ended the fifth-seeded Mustangs’ 13-19 season while advancing to the Big West title game for the 12th consecutive year, took a 3-0 lead on a 3-pointer by junior guard Lauren Pederson 19 seconds into the game and would never trail.
Cal Poly is among a handful of candidates to host five high school football state championship games in December, a California Interscholastic Federation official said Tuesday.
On-campus Alex G. Spanos Stadium would serve as the San Luis Obispo venue for the 2008 CIF State Football Championship Bowl Games, and is one of seven sites being considered.
Armed with their ethereal sound and biting wit, the duo behind the band Beach House is poised to storm into San Luis Obispo Friday. Well, maybe “storm in” is the wrong expression; “float in on a cloud” is a better fit to describe this band’s sound. Beach House, comprised of organist/vocalist Victoria Legrand and guitarist/keyboardist Alex Scally, is touring in support of its recently released second album, “Devotion.
Dead week is generally known as the time when college students work overtime to finish their assigned work before final exams. Cal Poly’s happens to coincide with the toughest test faced all season by its men’s basketball team. The Mustangs will have to come alive and cram at just the right time by doing something that’s never been done at the Big West Conference Tournament – winning four times in as many nights – to reach their first NCAA Tournament.
Doubles were key for the Cal Poly women’s tennis team as it upset No. 36 Washington State 4-3 at Mustang Courts on Tuesday.
The Mustangs, who split six singles matches with the Cougars, won all three doubles competitions.
Cal Poly’s No. 1 tandem, comprised of sophomores Brittany Blalock and Steffi Wong, improved to 8-3 with a defeat of Ekaterina Burduli and Ekaterina Kamendova.
The graphic anti-abortion displays on campus Monday caused a lot of discussion, with firm debating going on between people on
After winning its past three matches by a combined score of 192-8, the Cal Poly rugby club team will face an entirely new challenge tonight – or, more specifically, one from an entirely different part of the country.
In their first outing against an East Coast team this season, the No.