According to the Slack sports site, UCD women defeated Slack women in tennis today, 4-3. Running score is now UCD 37.5, SUCS 25. Next up is Track & Field this coming Friday, at Slack. The second baseball game is scheduled for May 8th, and a softball rain-out remains to be scheduled. One win or a couple of ties and the Causeway Cup remains where it is happiest.

For what it's worth: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/article209195019.html

Ouch. Baseball lost, 8-2. Giving up 7 runs in one inning will do that to you. Causeway running score is not UCD 32.5, SUCS 25.0. Next up is track this Friday and women's tennis on Saturday.

The track meet, to be held at Sac, has been rescheduled to April 27th.

Each of the Slack State tennis teams has eight roster players, and on each team only two are American.

(Though perhaps we could recruit some foreigners for field hockey for a few years while the sport is still pretty much an emerging sport this side of the Mississippi River. We do have one Dutch player, but there must be some prospects in Asia or Down Under who could use an ag related degree.)

Men's golf placed 5th in their own tournament, well ahead of Slack who finished 11th (of 13). With the higher placing, the Ags earn 5 more Causeway points. That brings the running score to UCD 32.5, Slack 22.5. Next event on the schedule is the first of two baseball games, to be played this coming Tuesday evening in Davis.

Go Ags!

Thanks for the information. Obviously I had no idea that the home school provides horses for visitors. I will have to read up a bit. How are horses distributed for the event? Is there some sort of drawing or lottery? It would seem to be a home-turf advantage if the home riders had horses with which they work everyday and the visitors are riding unfamiliar mounts. But as is apparent, what do I know?

Many, many years ago the UCD horse polo club won a national club championship, largely with the support of a rancher/horse breeder from the central valley. Pattern story for a made for TV movie...the rough unpolished kids from the west beat the refined blue-bloods from the east coast. Coincidentally it was the backdrop for a movie for TV with John Ritter titled "Leave Yesterday Behind." Ritter plays a polo player and vet student who is paralyzed in a riding accident.

And speaking of equestrian events, and with a John Ritter tie-in, I have two words in support of an equestrian team: Kaley. Cuoco.

I am for any sport...but really don't get equestrian (and field hockey) in the California valley. Racing shells are expensive and you have to transport them, but you don't have to feed them or stable them, or stop every few hours to water them...and at the end of the meet you wash them off, not brush them down.

Boise State has beach volleyball. They play their first home games next week. http://www.broncosports.com/sports/w-svolley/bosu-w-svolley-body.html

It's all a matter of perspective. As I recall, when the Ags went to the Boardwalk Bowl in the early 70s some UMass fans displayed a sign that read "Beach Cal Davis." They were playing on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City with the Atlantic Ocean in plain view. Amherst, MA is about 90 miles from Boston, only slightly farther than Davis to San Francisco.
Beach volleyball has been played in the Olympics in notable seaside retreats like Atlanta, Athens, Beijing and London.
I think they have to call it beach volleyball because in this enlightened age we can't call it "another reason to watch women run around in bikinis."

Other than being an ag school with a premier veterinary school I don't get adding equestrian.

Look at Fresno State's schedule: http://www.gobulldogs.com/schedule.aspx?path=equest
The season started in September with three home events over two weekends. Then they travelled to South Dakota in October and to Tennessee for two meets in November. Then a break, followed by two events on a weekend in Texas and two home events two weeks later back in Fresno. In March they traveled to South Carolina and Alabama. That month ended with the conference championship in Dallas. Next weekend they return to Texas for the national championships, a four day event. Transporting, boarding and feeding horses can't be cheap. And, according to the press release, the school is building ($$$) an equine facility.
At least with a team in Davis, visiting teams can get two events on their west coast trip.

Men's tennis lost a close one to Slack yesterday, 4-3. Running score is now UCD 27.5, Slack 22.5. Next up is a men's golf tournament (The El Macero "Classic") this weekend.

I frequently tried to invoke something like that when it came to divulging my grades to my parents.

Would this be him?

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/alex_trautner_1067015.html

I think that rowing is like cross country. Pick a spot and sit, the action comes racing by, and you're done....Not even like the Tour de France where idiots run out onto the course waving flags and almost knocking the cyclists down. As I recall the few times I have seen rowing in the Olympics there are often bike lanes on the shore and you can see cyclists following the boats.

(HIPPA, or to be an attorney, er, jerk, about it, HIPAA, has to do with privacy of medical information. Not sure if medical issues ever came up, but there are probably some rules or regulations providing for confidentiality of student disciplinary matters.)

Didn't Chima graduate at the end of the winter quarter? If he has graduated, does that put an unceremonious, and unresolved end to the matter?

WNIT Final: Indiana 65-Va Tech 57 in front of 13,000 (!!) in Bloomington.

Penn State defeated Utah for NIT championship.

Indiana continues it's roll through the WNIT, defeating TCU by 13, 71-58, in front of 7,800 fans in Bloomington. They will host Virginia Tech in Saturday's final.

Just as in the men's NIT, the Ags lost to a finalist, and played them as well as any other team has in the tournament(s).

Utah State hired Craig Smith from the University of South Dakota as their new head coach.
http://www.utahstateaggies.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/032618aad.html

They will be playing Penn State.