Matt Brennan called it redemption.
The sophomore quarterback had every right to after helping the Cal Poly football team to a 23-17 Great West Football Conference win Saturday night over visiting rival UC Davis in front of 8,435 fans at Alex G. Spanos Stadium.
The Cal Poly women’s soccer team won its first Big West Conference game against visiting UC Irvine by a 1-0 score in double overtime Friday night.
The 426 fans packed into the bleachers at the Sports Complex went wild when sophomore forward Ashley Vallis ended the 0-0 score on an assist from Kaleena Andruss.
Sophomore outside hitter Kylie Atherstone led all players with 17 kills and No. 20 Cal Poly failed to trail at any point Saturday evening in remaining perfect at Mott Gym courtesy of a 30-22, 30-21, 30-26 victory against Cal State Fullerton.
Big West Conference-leading Cal Poly (13-4, 5-0), off to the second-best league start in program history, hasn’t dropped a game at Mott Gym in 2006 following sweeps of UC Davis (Sept.
Kyle Shotwell and Courtney Brown are possibly the two best players on Cal Poly’s defense, which ranks No. 1 among 117 Division I-AA teams in fewest points allowed per game.
Just don’t ask the sideline-to-sideline senior middle linebacker Shotwell or the ball-hawking senior cornerback Brown what it’s like to have that claim.
Karl Ivory is a former Cal Poly cornerback who finished up his eligibility in 2004. He has shed his helmet and pads for a pen and notebook as a special football analyst for the Mustang Daily. Here is what “Coach K” has to say about this week’s matchup:
What makes a champion?
Champions know how to get up when it’s difficult, and that’s what you saw last week.
After its 18-14 win over Southern Utah in the Hall of Fame Game on Sept. 30, it was as if the Cal Poly football team was ready to put the helmets back on and play four more quarters.
The reason?
UC Davis is coming to town.
“That’s the biggest game of the year,” Cal Poly sophomore wide receiver Tredale Tolver said.
In this world there are two types of people – the ones who lead and those who follow.
People are drawn to these special individuals that lead because they have that something that everyone else doesn’t. This is true in every aspect of life, whether it’s innovative businessmen such as Bill Gates fighting AIDS in Africa or men like Martin Luther King Jr.
Ah, October is here. If you are a sports fan, Christmas has come early. The NFL season is in its infancy and the Major League Baseball Playoffs have just begun the long march to the World Series. For your reading pleasure, the Mustang Daily has decided to give you a playoff preview of the upcoming American and National league championship series and the World Series – with a twist.
Senior forward Kelsey Carroll is among the Cal Poly women’s soccer team’s leaders in nearly every category this season.
But her impressive statistics and individual accomplishments have not taken away from her dedication.
For Carroll, team success is most important.
Just your average trip to a Cal Poly football game – or was it?
This story has all the makings of the greatest tale ever told – a boy’s dreams come crashing down, but some quick thinking and a wacky plan add some comic relief before the boy conquers an arch-enemy and becomes a man.
Due to the outstanding student response at last weekend’s football game, Cal Poly Athletics will hold for students 1,000 more general admission tickets for Saturday’s Great West Football Conference game against UC Davis.
Kickoff on Mustang Memorial Field at Alex G.