With two runners finishing in the top 100, the Cal Poly men’s cross country team took 23rd place with 513 points at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. on Monday afternoon.
“I thought that the team had a solid effort today,” Mustangs head coach Mark Conover said in a news release.
The Cal Poly men’s water polo club team came up short Nov. 16 at the National Collegiate Club Water Polo Championships in Athens, Ohio.
The Mustangs took second place, losing to Michigan State 15-13 in the final game.
“We scored 13 goals and that should always be enough to win,” Mustangs junior driver Josh Mix said.
This story was posted at 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26. Cal Poly football players darted around Mott Gym’s basketball court Wednesday morning, tucked away from rain that forced them to move practice inside from its typical setting at the I Field. “I think it’s the second time I’ve done it since I’ve been here,” redshirt junior linebacker Carlton Gillespie said.
This story was posted at 11:40 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29. For months, defenses had tried to get the ball out of the hands of the Cal Poly football team’s offense. To say they failed would be something of an understatement. Cal Poly entered its Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) first-round playoff game against Weber State leading the FCS in both yards (481.
Lon Baldwin sat in the lobby of the Madison, Wis. Dane County Regional Airport on Sunday morning, wearing a purely red “Wisconsin” sweatshirt unscathed by snowfall Californians might’ve expected of a late-November, midwestern night with a 24-degree wind chill.
With a Ryan Anderson 28th-minute goal, the Cal Poly men’s soccer team earned its first NCAA Tournament victory, 1-0 over UCLA on Friday night at Drake Stadium in Los Angeles. Cal Poly goalkeeper Eric Branagan-Franco recorded his 25th career shutout while making three saves, but the Bruins had several scoring opportunities that were stopped by the Cal Poly defense.
This story was posted at 6:57 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, Saturday, Nov. 22. MADISON, Wis. – The words “Cal Poly” were about to enter sports fans’ collective consciousness right next to “Appalachian State.” Just like in the Mountaineers’ season-opening shocker over Michigan last season, the Mustangs’ attempt to stun Wisconsin on Saturday night came down to a kick.
At Monday’s weekly Cal Poly athletics news conference, a reporter asked senior quarterback Jonathan Dally what he and the Mustangs wanted to accomplish this weekend.
On its face, the question seemed to have merit.
The Mustangs, ranked third in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), virtually guaranteed an at-large playoff berth with last week’s 51-28 win over UC Davis.
USA Today deemed it “unfathomable.”
According to Lindy’s 2008 College Football Preview, longtime contributor Dennis Dodd said “the biggest upset in history” was “David’s kid sister beating Goliath.”
And for the entire college football world, Appalachian State’s 2007 season-opening, 34-32 win at Michigan opened eyes.
Week 12 has arrived, and depending on the league settings, you’ve got to have a record of at least 5-6 to have a shot at the playoffs.
If you’ve got a record of 4-7, you’ll most likely have to win out and have a good point total to gain a playoff spot. My advice is to take it one week at a time and play upside match-ups the rest of the way.
If you thought your life was hectic, try living Stephen Field’s.
The agricultural business senior, who is nearing the end of his time at Cal Poly, was recently married and coaches throwing for the track and field team at Arroyo Grande High, his alma mater.