The Cal Poly women’s indoor track and field team has set the bar high this season and is already off to a good start.
Last Saturday, the Mustangs ushered in the new season as seniors Sharon Day and Danielle Ayers-Stamper competed in the Dempsey Indoor Preview meet hosted by the University of Washington in Seattle.
It is a season of changes for the Cal Poly men’s tennis team.
With a new freshman player, a new coach and only two remaining seniors on the team, the Mustangs have a new outlook.
Saturday marks the resumption of Cal Poly men’s tennis for the 2006-07 season.
Nick Camacho Just as the Sacramento State men’s basketball team continued to slash into a once comfortable Cal Poly lead late in the second half, the Mustangs converted two Hornet turnovers into baskets to pull out a 74-65 nonconference victory…
In the offseason, the Cal Poly baseball program’s incoming freshmen class received high praise and expectations. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper ranked the Mustangs’ recruiting class the 20th-best in the nation.
This year, head coach Larry Lee hopes that young talent will translate into victories – fast.
Cal Poly senior tennis player Carol Erickson was hardly afraid to take on the defending NCAA singles champion last Saturday.
In fact, Erickson took third-ranked Cal junior Susie Babos to three games at the Cal Winter Invitational. Babos wound up a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3 winner, but Erickson feels that making each set competitive in the two-and-a-half-hour match bodes well for the rest of the season.
Legends are born on Sundays, but in Tom Brady’s case, legendary status was earned two years ago when he won his third Super Bowl in four years. Last Sunday against the Chargers was just a little more icing on his cake.
San Diego Chargers fans are still in disbelief over how they just gave the game away.
I briskly made my way across campus after class let out last Thursday night.
It wasn’t the cold that had me in a hurry, though.
It was game night, and I was intent on sitting down in Mott Gym before the halftime buzzer sounded.
The scoreboard showed a predictable 14-point Cal Poly lead against UC Davis.
The Cal Poly women’s basketball team is in the middle of a nine-day break in between games and a 14-day gap in between Big West Conference contests.
It couldn’t come at a better time.
Injuries keep mounting for the Mustangs (5-11, 1-3 Big West), who have lost eight of nine following a 4-3 start that included wins over Oregon State and two West Coast Conference teams.
The Cal Poly women’s swimming and diving team handed visiting UC Santa Cruz a 153-143 loss and the Mustang men won 155-145 Monday.
Cal Poly freshman Christina Shilling set a lifetime best in the 500-yard freestyle with a winning time of 5 minutes, 16.43 seconds.
Since the Super Bowl era began after the 1966 season, only three NFL teams have won 14 or more regular-season games and gone winless in the playoffs. It’s happened twice in the last three years. With their season-ending 24-21 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday, the San Diego Chargers joined the 2005 Indianapolis Colts and the 1986 Chicago Bears as the only 14-win clubs to go 0-1 in the postseason.
Don’t look now, but if the Cal Poly men’s basketball team wins tonight, it will have reached the .500 mark this late in the season for the first time since a 6-6 start to the 2003-04 campaign.
But to get there, the Mustangs (7-8, 1-3 Big West Conference) will have to defeat visiting Sacramento State at 7 p.