Ryan Chartrand
Women’s basketball
Cal Poly (12-7, 4-3)
vs. CSUN (5-15, 2-5)
The Mustangs are riding their first three-game winning streak this season as they take on the Matadors at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Matadome.
Cal Poly faced one of their toughest non-conference games earlier this week when they beat Cal State Bakersfield (13-8) on Tuesday.
Mustangs sophomore forward Kristina Santiago scored a career-high 29 points against the Roadrunners in the win. She added six rebounds and four assists.
Playing her most meaningful minutes of the year, Cal Poly freshman forward Aly Geppert scored six points and added 10 rebounds. It was the first double-digit rebounding effort by a Cal Poly player this year.
The Matadors have already won four more games than they did a year ago when they finished 1-26.
Men’s basketball
CSUN (7-10, 4-3)
vs. Cal Poly (5-12, 2-5)
The Mustangs will play on national television for the second time this season when they host the Matadors at 6 p.m. Saturday in Mott Gym on Fox Sports Network-Prime Ticket.
Cal Poly won two Big West Conference road games last week to climb into the conference tournament picture.
Cal State Northridge, the preseason favorite to win the Big West, suffered a disappointing start to their season and are currently in fourth place.
Things got worse for the Matadors when they lost top-scorer Deon Tresvant after he was arrested for allegedly stealing $6,600 worth of merchandise from Best Buy along with the son of Matadors’ head coach Bobby Braswell.
Cal Poly junior guard Lorenzo Keeler is the reigning Big West Player of the Week after he averaged 22 points, 4 rebounds and 1.5 assists a week ago.
Swimming
UCSC
vs. Cal Poly
With the season drawing near a close, Cal Poly will host the Banana Slugs 2 p.m. Saturday at Sinsheimer Park in just their second home meet of the year.
The Cal Poly men’s team will be led by sophomore Peter Kline, who already is one of the most accomplished swimmers in Cal Poly history.
Kline has been named Big West Male Swimming Athlete of the Week three times already this year and holds team-best times in the 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 IM and 400 IM this season.
Freshman Lacey Buck leads the women, already holding two school records in her young collegiate career. Buck has been named Big West Swimming Athlete of the Week twice. She currently holds the top times in the Big West in the 1000 Free, 1650 Free and the 500 Free.
The Banana Slugs men’s and women’s teams are ranked in the top 20 in Division-III swimming.
The men are led by junior Ben Ferguson, who set a school record in the 50 Free with an NCAA-A standard time of 20.20 seconds.
Women’s tennis
CSUN (0-2) vs.
No. 75 Cal Poly (1-0)
The Mustangs begin conference play looking to avenge last season’s 4-3 loss to the Matadors.
Cal Poly dominated their first dual of the season beating Santa Clara 6-1 on Jan. 24.
Junior Suzie Matzenauer, has taken over at No. 1 singles after transferring from Northwestern last year.
Senior Maria Malec is ranked No. 120 and is currently 13-2 this season.
The junior duo of Brittany Blalock and Steffi Wong are 11-6 this season playing at No. 1 doubles.
Cal State Northridge has played a difficult non-conference schedule, dropping both duals 7-0 to No. 3 UCLA and No. 29 Pepperdine.