A close game against Pacific hadn’t been a good thing for the Cal Poly women’s basketball team this season.
The Mustangs, though, who’d lost twice to the Tigers in overtime by a combined seven points earlier this year, rallied from a 17-point halftime deficit in the second round of the Big West Conference Tournament on Thursday, winning 79-76 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
A stretch of first-half cold shooting by the Cal Poly women’s basketball team enabled UC Santa Barbara to turn its Big West Conference Tournament semifinal into a rout and an eventual 77-57 win Friday afternoon at the Anaheim Convention Center.
The top-seeded Gauchos, who ended the fifth-seeded Mustangs’ 13-19 season while advancing to the Big West title game for the 12th consecutive year, took a 3-0 lead on a 3-pointer by junior guard Lauren Pederson 19 seconds into the game and would never trail.
Cal Poly is among a handful of candidates to host five high school football state championship games in December, a California Interscholastic Federation official said Tuesday.
On-campus Alex G. Spanos Stadium would serve as the San Luis Obispo venue for the 2008 CIF State Football Championship Bowl Games, and is one of seven sites being considered.
Following a week of accolades and broken records, the Cal Poly women’s basketball team will take on UC Irvine in the first round of the Big West Conference Tournament at noon today at the Anaheim Convention Center.
The fifth-seeded Mustangs (11-18, 8-8) have downed the eighth-seeded Anteaters (7-23, 3-13) twice this season, and if they do it again, they will meet No.
Dead week is generally known as the time when college students work overtime to finish their assigned work before final exams. Cal Poly’s happens to coincide with the toughest test faced all season by its men’s basketball team. The Mustangs will have to come alive and cram at just the right time by doing something that’s never been done at the Big West Conference Tournament – winning four times in as many nights – to reach their first NCAA Tournament.
Doubles were key for the Cal Poly women’s tennis team as it upset No. 36 Washington State 4-3 at Mustang Courts on Tuesday.
The Mustangs, who split six singles matches with the Cougars, won all three doubles competitions.
Cal Poly’s No. 1 tandem, comprised of sophomores Brittany Blalock and Steffi Wong, improved to 8-3 with a defeat of Ekaterina Burduli and Ekaterina Kamendova.
UC Santa Barbara baseball fans cheered from the bleachers of Cal Poly’s Baggett Stadium Tuesday night when six of their players trotted past home plate in the eighth inning.
Those runs were the Gauchos’ only ones of the game, though, in the Mustangs’ 15-6 win.
Logan Schafer lives for baseball. When he’s not out on the field playing a game or practicing, he is thinking about it or watching it.
The Los Gatos native grew up as the middle child with two brothers who also share his passion for America’s pasttime.
Now a junior center fielder for Cal Poly, Schafer leads the Mustangs in batting average (.
After winning its past three matches by a combined score of 192-8, the Cal Poly rugby club team will face an entirely new challenge tonight – or, more specifically, one from an entirely different part of the country.
In their first outing against an East Coast team this season, the No.
The Cal Poly women’s golf team topped Cal State Bakersfield 317-386 in a dual match Sunday at Hunter Ranch Golf Course in Paso Robles.
Sophomore Julia Heath and junior Elsie Walker were co-medalists by carding 78s for Cal Poly.
Mustangs junior Hannah Brabb finished one stroke back, while sophomore Stephanie Yocum came in fourth with an 82.
The Cal Poly women’s basketball team secured a 71-55 win over Cal State Northridge in its regular-season finale Saturday in Mott Gym on Senior Night to earn the No. 5 seed in the Big West Conference Tournament.
In the final home game of their careers, the victory was especially sweet for seniors Kyla Howell, Sparkle Anderson, Nicole Yarwasky and Toni Newman.