Good day to be an Aggie and from Iowa.

Ags defeat UCSD in La Jolla today, 15-12, to finish 7-0 in conference and win the regular seaon WWPA title and top seed in the conference post-season tourney. They play UOP next Friday and then return to La Jolla for the conference tourney in two weeks.

Ags are in Southern California this weekend. Rolled over LMU, 22-5, on Thursday and play UCSD on Saturday. Ags and Tritons are 6-0 in conference play and winner will, duh, win the regular season title and top seed for the conference tourney. These two teams have met for the last few WWPA tournament titles.

Go Ags!

Don't know what the selection rules are, but I suspect Dr. Mike is right. 24 automatic qualifiers and 24 at large bids. I think the top seeded 16 get first round byes, while the remaining 32 play a first round game.

CSUN defeated Slack, 3-2 in double OT to win the CSU quarterfinal. Ags will host the Matadors in a semi this Saturday. UCR defeated UCSB in a UC quarterfinal and will play Fullerton State in the other semi.

Finish the season 1-16, 0-6 in the Western Division of the America East Confernce, but they make the conference tourney. ??? There are four teams in the Western Division and five in the Eastern Division. Vermont finished last in the east and is out of the tourney, even though they finished with better record than the Aggies. Canadian Football League has a rule called the crossover. If the fourth place team in one division has a better record than the third place team in the other, that fourth place team goes to the CFL playoffs and the third place in the other division team goes home. Ags will travel across country to play Albany which tied for first in the east.

Next up, I think, is the NCAA cross-country regional on November 10. If earlier meets are any indication, we should expect a split with the Aggie women defeating the Hornet woman and the Hornet men, well, you get the idea....but that's why they run the meets.

Go Ags!

Men defeated Slack today, 3-0, to clinch the top seed and home pitch advantage through the Big West tournament. On Wednesday, 11/1, UCR will play at UCSB in one semifinal and Slack will play at CSUN in the other. The Ags will host the winner of the CSUS/CSUN match in a semifinal on 11/4, and Fullerton will host the UCR/UCSB winner in the other semi. The winners will play on 11/11 for the conference tourney championship.

Go Ags!

Mens' soccer defeated Slack today, 3-0. (A rout by soccer standards.) Causeway score should be Slack 10, Davis 5.

He is listed as the "Development Coordinator" for SDSU football.

http://www.goaztecs.com/school-bio/staff-directory.html

From what I can piece together Slack was won volleyball and women's soccer. UCD has one victory in men's soccer with one more game to be played on October 29. Throw in football on November 18th and the cross-country regionals on November 10th and that's it for fall sports.

We jump quickly into winter sports with mens' basketball on Nov. 21st and women's basketball on Nov. 30th.

There are some other competitions, like a couple of cross country meets and, I think, a fall softball game, but those usually are not counted in the Causeway Cup scoring.

Neither website has a 2017-18 Causeway Cup page, but I have the running score at them 10, us 2.5.

As the young whippersnappers say, or once said, "TRUE DAT!"

I hate to disparage any sport.....but why field hockey on the West Coast? While wrestling went down because of Title IX, one of the reasons always thrown out in support of getting rid of wrestling was that it just is not a West Coast sport. Wrestling on the West Coast is like water polo in the midwest.

Yet we have a field hockey team. One of only four in California. Stanford has its unlimited bankroll. UOP struggles. We eke by. Even Cal had problems a couple of seasons ago when they had no home field and played all of their games on the road.

I have said it before; the closest college field hockey teams east of Stockton, CA, are in Iowa and Missouri. Nothing in between.

I would have thought it would have been better to keep crew and not add field hockey. I assume there are money issues in maintaining and transporting shells, etc..

Having said that, congratulations to the women who don the gold and Yale blue and play for the Ags. Good luck! Go Ags!

PS: Just waiting for the civil rights movement and proponents of the ADA to challenge field hockey. It blatantly and without and sign of remorse discriminates against left handers.

Cross country teams competed against Slack at the Capitol Cross Challenge on Sept. 30. Results, at least as far as Us against Them, were the same as the earlier Aggie Open with Slack men placing higher than Aggie men and Aggie women higher than Slack women. As noted earlier, all cross country points are determined at the NCAA West Regionals and not at the earlier meets.

Big West conference soccer opened last week and the results suggest the Aggie and Hornet men are pretty even. Ags defeated UCI and tied CSUN. Hornets defeated CSUN and tied UCI.

Sun don't shine on the same dog everyday. This fall has been a complete Causeway turnaround from last fall.

I will always remember that Western came down here to open up the new stadium....They were D-II and the Ags had moved up. WW won....and promptly dropped football at the end of the season. Not one of the better moments in Aggie FB history.

I'll take any votes, but like most polls, you need a couple more weeks to shake this out. How does UCD get 2 votes after disassembling San Diego...which received 16 votes? EWU seems to be ranked pretty high considering their slow start.

I think Cal football's academic performance proved to be the end for Telford.

They play CETYS from Mexico and Simon Fraser from Canada. Nothing wrong with a little international flavor to your college education.

Women's soccer lost today, 1-0. Last year Slack women scored 2.5 Causeway points all year. They already have 10 this year. Slack didn't have 10 points last year between the men and women until April.

Next up appears to be cross country on Sept. 30. EDIT: Cross Country points are determined at the NCAA West Regionals, to be held this year on November 10th in Seattle. Good thing. We split the Aggie Open on September 2 with Sac winning the men's and UCD winning the women's. They will also compete at the Capitol Cross Challenge in Sacramento on September 30 but that does not count in the Causeway Cup competition.

Next Causeway Cup event appears to be men's soccer. Because Sac is part of the Big West for men's soccer the Ags and Hornets will play twice. October 14 @ Sac and October 29 in Davis.

Only other fall event is football at Sacramento on November 18th.