Women’s basketball falls to Illinois

The Cal Poly women’s basketball team followed up two season-opening wins, with two losses — the last being a 104-63 loss to Illinois Tuesday morning in Champaign, Ill.

Football season officially ends for the Mustangs

A dream that was just simply a nightmare became a reality for the Cal Poly football team this weekend. After piecing together one of the best seasons in program history in 2008, Cal Poly was left out of the FCS Playoffs for the second-straight year Sunday morning.

Wrestling captures two titles at Fullerton Open

Boris Novachkov and Ryan Desroches captured individual titles at the Fullerton Open this weekend, as Cal Poly was the only team to have multiple champions. Novachkov posted a 4-0 record while Desroches won five times, four by fall.

Men’s basketball falls to Monterey Bay, Montana State

Cal Poly was stunned Thursday night in their home opener, losing to Cal State Monterey Bay, their lone Division II opponent of the season.

Women’s basketball suffers first loss of the season

The home opener slipped away from Cal Poly women’s basketball (2-1) Friday night as Loyola Marymount pounded the Mustangs inside the paint in the second half to break open the game and hand the Mustangs their first loss of the season.

Women’s volleyball defeats UC Riverside

The Cal Poly women’s volleyball team wrapped up the regular season with a 3-1 victory over Cal State Riverside on Friday night. The set scores were 25-23, 21-25, 25-14, 25-23.

Looking back at fall quarter sports: Men’s soccer

Despite a fourth consecutive top 3 Big-West finish for Cal Poly men’s soccer team, their season, and NCAA Tournament hopes, ended as the Mustangs lost in overtime to their UC Santa Barbara rivals in the conference semi-finals.

Santiago out for season with ACL tear

An MRI showed a complete tear of the ACL in Santiago’s left knee, Santiago said the scan revealed Wednesday. That means the player who averaged a conference-high 19.6 points per game will watch the rest of the season from the bench.

Volleyball seeks bid to postseason, travels to UC Riverside

With one game left on the Cal Poly women’s volleyball schedule, the team is forced to play the waiting game. Three consecutive wins cemented the team’s position in third place in the Big West, but they are still out of reach of conference leader Cal State Fullerton and, consequently, without an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Wrestling aims for return to NCAA Championships

Fresh off an 18th place finish in the NCAA tournament, the Cal Poly wrestling team is back with their sights set on a Pac-10 championship. Of the 10 spots in the starting lineup, seven wrestlers garnered rankings in the top 25 in the country including one All-American, and they have the goals to prove it.

Volleyball wins both games in final homestand

The Cal Poly women’s volleyball team wrapped up it’s final home stand with two wins against Pacific and UC Davis over the weekend. Both matches lasted four games, with the Mustangs only dropping the second game in each. The win move the team to 21-7 overall and 11-4 in the Big West.