After losing several late leads while dropping 10 of 12 games, the Cal Poly baseball team turned the tables Tuesday afternoon.
The Mustangs, who trailed Pepperdine 5-3 heading into the seventh inning at Eddy D. Field Stadium, reeled off six consecutive runs to regain the lead on their way to a 10-5, non-conference win in Malibu and snapping a four-game losing skid.
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I saw the cover of the “shape” issue of Vogue magazine, which features model Gisele Bündchen and LeBron James as examples for the story “Secrets of the Best Bodies.”
Initially confused after seeing the cover, I had to read an article by Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock to grasp how one could consider the cover racist.
Trailing by two strokes after Monday, the Cal Poly women’s golf team shot a tournament-best 295 Tuesday to edge runner-up and host Cal State Northridge by seven in the nine-team Matador Spring Invitational at the Tierra Rejada Golf Course in Moorpark.
The Mustangs finished with a 36-hole, 607 total on the 6,018-yard, par-72 layout to capture their 10th tournament championship in the eight-year history of the program, and their second this season.
From a superficial standpoint, the comparison is almost too obvious to resist. Time and again during Saturday’s annual Cal Poly spring football game, No. 17 shot into the backfield and made tackle after tackle, repeatedly disrupting opposing rushing attempts.
Having lost 10 of 12, the Cal Poly baseball team will try to get back in the win column in a non-conference game against Pepperdine at 3 p.m. today in Eddy D. Field Stadium in Malibu.
Junior southpaw Jared Eskew (1-1, 2.92 ERA) will start for the Mustangs (9-17, 1-5 Big West Conference), who were swept over the weekend at Cal State Northridge.
After a tough loss to Pacific the day before, the Cal Poly men’s tennis team bounced back in a big way against UC Davis on Sunday, defeating the Aggies 6-1.
“It’s hard to get up after a heartbreaking 4-3 loss, but I’m really proud of the way our guys competed today,” Mustangs head coach Justin McGrath said.
The Cal Poly women’s tennis team lost its fourth-straight match Friday, 7-0 to Big West Conference power Long Beach State at Mustang Courts.
“It was a tough match,” said Mustangs sophomore Brittany Blalock. “But we’re a bunch of perfectionists, so there’s a bunch of things we can work on and improve upon.
Cal Poly senior Sharon Day won the women’s high jump at the 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, Texas on Saturday by clearing 5 feet, 8 _ inches. Junior Julieann Dufresne, an NCAA West Regional-qualifying discus thrower, came in 10th in that event at 153-5.
Although a search for a desired 12th game continues, the Cal Poly football program released Thursday an 11-game schedule for the upcoming season currently including two byes and six home games.
Opening and concluding the Mustangs’ regular season will be contests against Football Bowl Subdivision teams, Aug.
For the first time since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, all four No. 1 seeds made the Final Four. All the brackets, all the coverage, all the hype, and it comes down to this weekend in San Antonio. This tournament has been called one of the greatest events, if not the greatest, in all of sports, and by all accounts it has lived up to the hype.
Two of the Big West Conference’s three softball teams still undefeated in conference play will spar this weekend, as Cal Poly visits UC Santa Barbara for a three-game series beginning Saturday at the Gauchos’ Campus Diamond. The defending Big West champion Mustangs (15-13, 3-0), who have won five straight, swept Cal State Fullerton last weekend, 9-1 and 1-0 Saturday before edging the Titans 2-1 Sunday.