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.

University of the Incarnate Word from San Antonio, TX, beginning their first full-on season in D-1 (FCS-Southland Conference) . Went 3-8 last year. Currently 0-2 after traveling to Fresno State (66-0 loss) and Slack (56-22 loss) in the last two weeks.

When people ask me why UCD left D-II I always begin with "DII left UCD." Not entirely true, of course; UCD was growing faster than D-II, but also D-II and small college football were dying in the West. Money in general, travel costs particularly in light of the distance between schools in the west.....

HSU and Azusa Pacific are affiliated football-only members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Along with Central Washington, Western Oregon and Simon Fraser (of Canada) they are the sum and substance of the football part of the GNAC. To get a season they play each other conference opponent home and away and then scramble for games. HSU started with an "exhibition" game against CETYS Universidad of Tijuana, MX.

[Insert Trump/Wall joke here]

Way, way back, Humboldt State was a small college power. According to legend they did well because players found nice jobs in the lumber industry. Those days are gone. I guess the current cash crop in Redwood Country doesn't fill the void.

Water polo got off to a bad start in Berkeley, falling behind 4-0 before getting a score. Final was 15-10, Cal. San Jose State in the home opener this weekend.

Last year all the Hornet women could manage in Causeway Cup competition was tie in soccer. The Hornet women's last win over Davis was in softball in March of 2016.

The Causeway Cup pages have not been updated for this season, but I THINK the next competition is women's soccer, at Davis, next Monday.

Went 3-1 at the Triton Invitational with loss to #8 Long Beach State followed by victories over Air Force, #13 UCI and #12 UCSD. Tough one tonight at they travel to always powerful and defending NCAA champ Cal.

(Somewhere somehow sometime someplace someone will say the university should not take money generated by big oil.)

Tell my kids. I'm usually not correct until sometime after Labor Day.

[ Psst: I think that's the ACC/BIg Ten (14) or the SEC/Big 12 (10). ]

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