A 6-10 conference record certainly isn’t ideal.
But after going 4-26 overall in 2012, the Cal Poly volleyball team will take whatever it can get from the 2013 season.
The Mustangs, 4-4 heading into Saturday’s contest, picked up a pair of wins at the Cal Poly Holiday Beach Classic last weekend and tipped its record to 5-4 with the triumph over the Roadrunners, giving the Mustangs their first three-game win streak of the season.
By Laura Hollander’s standards, anything but a top-10 finish is a bit out of the ordinary.
The sophomore cross-country runner finished 75th at the NCAA Championships Saturday, a far cry from her ninth-place finish a year ago. The top 40 runners are named All-Americans, meaning Hollander won’t receive the honor as she did in 2012.
The Cal Poly men’s basketball team dropped a 63-46 contest at Fresno State on Wednesday night, marking the Mustangs’ largest margin of defeat so far and their third straight loss.
I met him by happenstance.
On Friday, March 16, 2012, I boarded U.S. Airways flight No. 11, scheduled to leave San Francisco at 9 p.m. and arrive in Phoenix at 10:55.
There’s a Ford pickup truck parked 10 feet in front of him. Sean Davidson sits on an aluminum bench, his back against the yellow plastered walls of Mott Athletics Center.
Cal Poly men’s basketball placed third in this season’s Big West Conference preseason polls, finishing ahead of last season’s regular-season champion Long Beach State and five other teams.
Entering Sunday’s matchup against Cal State Fullerton, the Cal Poly men’s soccer team (8-4-0, 1-1-0 Big West) led all 198 Division I teams in total goals scored with 32. It’s the first time in head coach Paul Holocher’s regime that his team has accumulated such a lofty scoring record.