Men's water polo defeated top seed Long Beach State in the Big West tournament final. Ags will get the conference bid to the NCAA Championship.

This year's championship tournament will be held at Stanford on December 5-7. The brackets are to be announcerd tomorrow, November 24.

We split cross country this year with UCD men placing better in the NCAA regionals than Sac, but Sac's women doing better than UCD women. That's a mild upset in itself.

Both women's basketball teams are doing well, with only one loss each, but the season is young. No commmon opponents.

With all that is going on, or going off, at Sac, they may lose a lot of coaches too.

From the Bee article on the game:

“I’m just glad that (the Causeway trophy) is going to stay here for all eternity. That’s where it belongs. It should be here.” Tim Plough

Portal opens January 2.

There is another portal related to head coaching changes. As people have noted, Marion doesn't stay in one place very long, but don't know that he did enough this year to draw the attention of teams looking for head coaches. However everything about Sac football is in flux....schedule, league affiliation, divisional status, facilities...chaos theory run amok.

With the 31-27 win in football the Causeway score is now UCD 32.5, CSUS 5.

Next event, and the final event for 2025, is women's basketball this coming Monday in Sacramento.

The Stampeders defeated Montreal, 25-17, to win the Grey Cup. Jake apparently did not see any action in the game.

With the 77-73 victory in men's basketball, the Causeway score is UCD 27.5, CSUS 5.

Next event is the footbal game next Saturday, the 22nd, in Davis.

It was a push today at the NCAA D-1 Cross-Country Regionals hosted by Sac State at Haggin Oaks golf course in Sacramento.

CSUS women finished 16th of 39 teams with 571 points while the Aggie women came in 19th with 611 points.

Aggie men finished 10th of 30 teams with 281 points. Sac was one of four teams that "Did Not Participate."

Running ("Ha!") Causeway score is UCD 22.5, CSUS 5.

Next event is basketball this evning in Davis.

Go Ags!

Minor correction here. Men’s basketball is also on the 14th.

At Davis.

[Pardon the (retired) attorney in me, but UC San Diego teams are the Tritons. The Toreros are the teams from the University of San Diego, the private Catholic university in San Diego and who compete in the West Coast Conference.]

Men's soccer result from Davis. UCD 2, CSUS 1. Running Causeway score is now UCD 17.5, CSUS 0.

Next events are NCAA Regional Cross-country meets for men and women at Sacramento on November on November 14.

Appears to be the Cal OC's son.

https://calbears.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/bryan-harsin/6134

Hughes was OK at the time, but may not be as the programs move up the NCAA ladder. The stadium holds about 25,000. Back when the Causeway was played there the field was grass. Sac City plays their games there and at the time several city high schools (Sacramento, Kennedy, McClatchy, Christian Brothers and I think even Johnson) played their games there. By late in the season the field was in pretty bad shape. (Back in the NCAC days the schedules rotated and the Causeway was not always the final regular season game.) The city high schools have since improved fields on their campuses and no longer play at Hughes, though the Jesuit v Christian Brothers "Holy Bowl" is still played there. Grass was replaced with artificial turf in 2012.

Of course the Varsity wouldn't want to play all the collegiate JV teams on a community college field.

This will help in the search for a FBS level conference affiliation.

The school was quick to point out the brawlers were not students. I hope this is not reflective of the broader community to which Sac is trying to appeal.

Still early, but at this point Marion has shown himself to be a good assistant, but has yet to prove himself as a head coach. We've been there.

Running Causeway score is now UCD 12.5, CSUS 0.

Next event is men's soccer on November 1 in Davis.

Note: Davis men's tennis is hosting a fall event, the Aggie Invitational, on October 10-12. CSUS is entered. Not sure how that fits into the very informal structure of the Causeway Cup.

CSUS women are the powerhouse in this area at 4-5-0. CSUS men are 1-5-1.

I need to get a life.

UCD mens golf finished eighth of 16 teams at the Ram Masters Invitational at Ft. Collins, CO, with a total score of 866 strokes, putting them two strokes better than Sac, who finished in ninth place.

Running Causeway score is UCD 7.5, CSUS 0. Next event is womens soccer this coming Thursday in Sacramento.