Members of the Cal Poly rugby club team are chomping at the bit for their first taste of league play this weekend against UCLA.
The Mustangs begin the 2008 season looking to maintain their dominance of the Southern California Rugby Football Union by walking away with their third consecutive league championship.
According to a pie chart in the film “Playing Unfair: The media image of the female athlete,” women account for 40 percent of the participants in sports nationwide, although studies indicate that they represent just 3 to 5 percent of sports media coverage.
Ramses Barden flirted with the NFL, but in the end decided to postpone that courtship until next year.
Barden, who shattered several Cal Poly football records as the team’s leading receiver as a junior this past season, recently filed paperwork with the NFL advisory committee to gauge his potential draft outlook, but said Monday that he would take advantage of his senior year of eligibility.
Everyone on the Cal Poly women’s basketball team could get whatever they wanted on a Saturday night full of milestones at Mott Gym.
And the Mustangs got plenty of lay-ups, teardrops in the lane, back-ins, pull-up jumpers, bombs and even a technical free throw or two in their 92-55 win over UC Irvine, but it all added up to something they wanted even more: their best Big West Conference start ever, and the program’s best conference start in 28 years.
Hot outside shooting can’t get men’s basketball team back in win column Cal Poly’s best 3-point shooting performance in about two months wasn’t enough to keep the Mustangs from falling into seventh place in the Big West Conference on Saturday night. The Mustangs, who hit 39.
“I have no idea what happened.”
That was the response of undefeated senior Chad Mendes (18-0), ranked No. 3 in the nation at 141 pounds, after the Cal Poly wrestling team lost its Sunday afternoon Pac-10 Conference dual at Mott Gym to No. 25 Boise State. The final score was 26-5.
In its closest game of the season, the Cal Poly women’s basketball team took down Cal State Fullerton 55-54 at Mott Gym, remaining undefeated in the Big West Conference.
The win marks only the second time the Mustangs have started 3-0 in the conference, with the last time being the 2005-06 season.
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Men’s basketball team’s rally comes up short
The Mustangs’ bid to win their second straight Big West Conference game didn’t materialize at Cal State Fullerton Thursday night, as they fell 78-64 at Titan Gym.
After leading 37-33 at the half, the Titans reeled off an 18-2 run to give themselves a 55-35 advantage with about 13 minutes left.
They sparred with some of the best competition the country – and in one case, the world – had to offer in the fall, and now, the Cal Poly women’s tennis team will look to build upon that success, starting at home.
The Mustangs, led by the sophomore duo of Brittany Blalock and Steffi Wong, host Santa Clara at 10 a.
For much of the season, the Cal Poly women’s basketball team has relied most heavily on a pair of junior forwards for its offense.
But Megan Harrison and Lisa McBride, who have led the Mustangs in scoring in 11 of their 14 games this season, won’t be the only tandem making its presence felt at Mott Gym when they host Cal State Fullerton at 7 p.
It’s often said in basketball, “Live with the bomb, die with the bomb.” Wildly fending off the demise that warning promises, the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team is living it up, and doing it quite well.
The Titans, who host Cal Poly at 7 p.m., are the only team in the Big West Conference to take more 3-pointers per game than the Mustangs, and it’s been to their advantage so far this season.