Lauren Zahner Rugby is a poorly-known sport to most Americans. The terms hooker, maul, flanker, grubber and dummy conjure up little more than vague images of an edge-of-your-seat murder mystery. Yet, to a few enlightened Cal Poly students, those words…
Mustangs fall in 'elite eight' of national tourney
Cal Poly’s rugby team lost to Brigham Young University 55-7 in the elite eight of the national playoffs at Berkeley Saturday after defeating the Purdue Boilermakers in the sweet 16 the day before. This was the fifth time in the…
Gauchos out-duel Cal Poly track
A shorthanded Cal Poly men’s and women’s track and field squad lost dual meets to Central Coast rival UC Santa Barbara on Saturday. However, warm weather and a competitive atmosphere contributed to several top-notch performances. Three Mustang men, including Chris…
Poly Players With Carol Erickson
Kendra Deutsche Carol Erickson has helped pull the Cal Poly women’s tennis team to an 11-9 record overall this season, with a 5-2 Big West record. She has a 19-8 individual record. Erickson, a business junior, consistently helps lead the…
Gocong is Philadelphia bound
whitney guenther For the second straight year, a Cal Poly football player has been selected in the third round of the National Football League Draft. Senior defensive end Chris Gocong became Cal Poly’s highest draft choice ever on Saturday afternoon,…
Eight-game win streak ends
Central Coast rival UC Santa Barbara snapped Cal Poly softball’s eight-game win streak, but only after the Mustangs won both halves of a Saturday doubleheader to clinch the series win at the Gauchos’ Campus Diamond. Cal Poly (24-20, 8-4) won…
Mustangs drop two to No. 5 Oregon State
Cal Poly lost two games to No. 5 Oregon State, 3-0 and 8-4, and beat New Mexico 6-4 in extra innings in Corvallis, Ore. Right-hander Dallas Buck and southpaw Kevin Gunderson, both junior All-Americans, combined on a seven-hit 3-0 shutout…
Annual SLO Tour hits the green to benefit community
Paul Bittick Cal Poly’s business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi, will be hosting its third annual SLO Tour, a golf tournament to help benefit the Housing Authority of San Luis Obispo’s Family Self Sufficiency Program and at-risk children. “This year we…
Gocong awaits NFL draft day fate
louise dolby mustang daily Many NFL players came from universities in a big football conference like the Pac-10, Big 12 or Big 10. Stars are manufactured at the University of Southern California, Ohio State and Miami University ” not California…
Gocong projected as a second round pick
Four months after winning the 2005 Buck Buchanan Award for being the nation’s best defensive player in Division I-AA college football, the accolades for Cal Poly senior defensive end Chris Gocong are not slowing down. Some football experts have predicted…
Men's tennis ready to serve the Big West championships
The Cal Poly men’s tennis team is set and ready to serve their competition in the Big West tennis championships as they enter the weekend the No.5 seed with an overall record of 13-8. Coming off a six-game winning streak…