With the college football season in full swing, the time has come to start looking at the top teams in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) through the first quarter of the season.
James Madison (3-1) – Things were looking grim for the Dukes, who trailed Appalachian State 21-0 at halftime last week.
In the third week of the NFL season we saw the Patriots lose for the first time in the regular season since 2006, Ronnie Brown tally five TDs (four rushing, one passing) and the Bills and Titans stay undefeated. Whether or not you benefited fantasy-wise from these unforeseen occurrences, we will look ahead to week four.
Two weekend tune-ups remain for the Cal Poly women’s soccer team before Big West Conference play begins Oct. 3 at Cal State Fullerton. The first of those comes at 7 tonight when the Mustangs (4-5) host Utah State.
The Aggies (4-5-1), who left the Big West in 2005, were picked to finish third in the Western Athletic Conference preseason coaches poll.
Cal Poly women’s soccer built momentum leading into conference play after shutting down Utah State (4-6-1) defensively to merit a 1-0 win Friday.
Mustang goal keeper Coral Hoover posted her first career shutout and came up with six clutch saves.
“We were going hard to goal ? you can’t ask for much more,” Hoover said.
All the conditions were just right for the Cal Poly women’s volleyball team to catch fire Saturday night.
A regular-season record crowd of 2,917 packed Mott Gym to see if the Mustangs could avenge a 3-0 loss to Stanford in the regional semifinals of last year’s NCAA Tournament.
Cal Poly sophomore forward David Zamora finished Jacob Hustedt’s cross with a one-time header to the corner of the net to finalize a 3-2 win over Cal State Bakersfield on Wednesday night at Alex G. Spanos Stadium.
“Their team has a great goalkeeper so when I saw that cross, I was just like, ‘Get my head on the ball and hopefully I’ll get a goal,’ ” Zamora said of his score in the 103rd minute.
For the second year in a row, the Cal Poly men’s soccer team’s leading scorer hasn’t been a seasoned, wise, senior. It hasn’t been a junior turning the corner to stardom, nor even a sophomore providing promising glimpses into the future.
Indeed, Mustangs defender Patrick Sigler, the 2005 California Gatorade Player of the Year who redshirted last year, is a freshman – just like forward David Zamora was in 2007 when he had a team-high 17 points.
The Cal Poly women’s golf team shot a final-round 305 en route to a second-place finish at the Bulldog and Eagle Invitational at the Links Golf Course in Post Falls, Idaho on Tuesday.
Junior Julia Heath led the Mustangs with a final-round 76, giving her a 13-over-par 229 and a tie for fourth place.
Every time Cal Poly football players enter Alex G. Spanos Stadium, they know the bar – or rather, a recurring sort of banner – is set high.
The trio of commemorative banners honoring Jordan Beck, Chris Gocong and Kyle Shotwell remind of a golden age of Cal Poly defense, when those three won the Buck Buchanan Award – given to the best defender in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) – from 2004 to 2006.
Cal Poly senior opposite Kylie Atherstone was named Monday the Big West Conference Player of the Week after leading Cal Poly (5-6) at the Pismo Beach Invitational.
Atherstone amassed a season-high 21 kills with a match-high .450 hitting percentage against Saint Mary’s in the Mustangs’ first outing at the invitational, along with 17 digs and two aces in a four-game loss.
Until the end of time, coaches will always harp the cliché that the most important game is the next game. But we all know that’s not really true, right? Everyone circles one date or another on the calendar, depending on what they’re looking for. Here are 10 such dates in Cal Poly sports for the rest of the fall season that we at the Mustang Daily recommend circling, in chronological order:
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