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…
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,…
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…
Women's tennis bounces back after injuries
The Cal Poly women’s tennis team has high hopes for its second spring match against Long Beach State on Friday, which will take place in San Luis Obispo. The 49ers are the highest ranked team in the conference with a…
Mustang pitchers shine in new roles
Last year, starters Mason Radeke and Steven Fischback provided Cal Poly baseball with a devastating 1-2 punch on the mound entering any weekend series. The duo combined to finish with a 15-5 record and helped the Mustangs set record lows…
Lessons from the press box
I used to think that when I saw sports reporters on the sidelines with their laptops open during the games they were cranking out stories on deadline. Some editor somewhere was demanding that they turn in a complete story with…
Matt Fawcett plays from Cape Town to Cal Poly
South African-native Matt Fawcett checked his email inbox one fateful night, but decided to go through his spam folder as well. Alongside questionable messages for services and peculiar job opportunities, sat one particularly interesting email — one from then– Mustang…
Softball snaps 10-game losing streak
The Cal Poly softball team (8-22, 1-2 Big West) fell to Cal State Fullerton 7-0 in the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader after ending their 10-game losing streak earlier in the day. True freshman Jordan Yates went one inning…
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…
Baseball drops Big West opener to Long Beach State
Despite a late three-run push in the seventh inning, the Mustangs fell 4-3 to the Long Beach State Dirtbags on Friday night in Baggett Stadium. Cal Poly (16-9, 0-1) cut the Long Beach State (9-15, 1-0) lead to one using…
Weekend Preview: Baseball, softball begin Big West Play
Three Cal Poly sports teams will compete on campus this week, and a basketball star will make her way to Denver to showcase her talent in front of professional scouts. Baseball Friday night starter Joey Wagman started off the four…