Gymnastic from Sac: UCD 2nd of 4, 196.475 - CSUS 4th of 4, 195.450

Running (very unofficial) cup score: UCD 36.33, CSUS 13.83

Beach volleyball today in Santa Cruz.
Note: The Ags and Hornets did not meet in the tournament....which means they meet three times this season rather than four, and each meeting would be worth 1.33 points rather than 1.25, so the Causeway score should be UCD 36.41, CSUS 13.83.

The weather permitted as the Aggie women defeated Sac, 3-2, in beach volleyball this afternoon. Earlier Davis swept UOP, 5-0.

Running score is, I think, UCD 35.08, CSUS 13.83.

There are several competitions between the schools this coming weekend:

Friday: Gymnastics at a quadrangle meet at Sacramento with Southern Utah, San Jose State, Sac and UCD.

Saturday: Both teams are scheduled to compete in beach volleyball at the Big West Coast Tournament in Santa Cruz. The schools' schedules differ on whether the teams will play each other.

Sunday: The softball teams are scheduled to compete in the Capitol Classic to be held at both schools over the weekend. Other entries are Alabama State, Sienna, Southern Utah, and St. Mary's. Ags and Hornets are scheduled to play each other on Sunday in Davis.

Monday and Tuesday: The baseball teams meet for two games in two days with Sac hosting the Monday game and Davis hosting the Tuesday contest.

I assume the recent cancellation of games freed up some room on the team schedules, and gave the teams some incentive to get another early season game in. A Monday game? Followed by a Tuesday game in a home-and-away, (or I should say away-and-home) match up?

Again, weather permitting.

Wet weather and a wetter course resulted in the reduction of the Causeway Inivtational to a single round. Sac finished 4th of 13 with a score of 297, six strokes ahead of the Ags who finished 7th with a total score of 303.

In good news Aggie sophomore Abby Leighton was the overall medalist at the event.

Running score, such as it is, appears to be UCD 33.83, CSUS13.83.

Next up is beach volleyball tomorrow, March 1, at Davis. That match will be preceded by a UCD match against UOP.

Weather permitting of course.

In other "Causeway" news the teams have added a fourth baseball game on March 6th to be played at Sac. The April 11th game, previously scheduled at Sac, is now scheduled to be played at Davis.

I almost hesitate to write at all anymore, however the UCD gymnastics team defeated Sac 196.750 to 194.625 in a dual meet in Davis this afternoon.

Again with conservative scoring the running score is now UCD 33.83, CSUS 12.5.

Next event is men's tennis on February 25th in Sacramento.

EDIT:(Feb. 25, 2023): I recorded the date for the men's tennis match as February 25th. The UCD Causeway page has it as February 15th. The golf page for both schools has the date as April 12th. At this point it appears to be April 12th, at Sacramento.

As of now, the women's golf schedule for both schools says they will each be competing in the Causeway Invitiational to be held the coming Monday and Tuesday, February 27th-28, at the Del Paso Country Club in Sacramento. Safe bet that the weather may have something to say about that.

Softball defeated Sac at Sacramento this afternoon, 2-1.

Using the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine scoring system, Ags lead the running Causeway score, 32.58 to 12.5.

Next up, I think, is gymnastics dual met at Davis this coming Sunday.

"Webpage doesn’t show golf in the list of events. Has us up 27.5 - 12.5."

Which is what leads to my comment about speculation and the running score.

The webpage lists women's cross country, but not men's cross country. Davis won that. That should be 5 more points for Davis.

The webpage says gymnastics shall be determined by home and away meets however the Causeway Cup webpage says are three meets this year, one a quadruple meet. THe gymnastics scehdule shows a fourth meet, a quadruple meet at Cal. Do we just count the two dual meets? Also the webpage says the five points for each sport are to be divided by the number of times teams meet, so if teams meet twice each meeting is worth 2.5 points. Three meetings gets confusing. Do they get 1.3 points? 1.33 or 1.34? Four would be 1.25 points.Not sure which of the gymnastics meets should count. The webpage awarded Davis five points for the Davis win earlier this year yet as noted there are two (ot three) meetings remaining on the schedules. Depending upon what the powers-that-be decide, that should be 2.5 or 1.3 (1.333333???) or 1.25, but not 5.

Beach volleyball is supposed to follow the same rules as gymnastics, only home and away matches. Beach volleyball is listed on the webpage as meeting four times, a dual meet in Davis and in three tournaments, none of which are in Davis or Sacramento.

As Dr. Mike notes the webpage does not list women's golf, or men's golf for that matter, yet the women are scheduled to meet three times this year and the men's teams once.

I have tried to score it in the light most favorable to Sac in the spirit of fairness, and if necessary bending over a bit backward.

And it is worth repeating, that other school simply no longer has a page for the Causeway Cup....maybe we have already won by default.

The Aggie women's golf team came in second overall with a three round score of 898 at the the Valley Invitational in Bakersfield. The team finished one stroke behind first place USF. Sac finished 4th with a score of 912.

This is a very young Aggie team, with five sophomores and two freshmen on the overall roster. The official team for this event included four sophomores and one freshman.

Again, there is a lot of speculation in determining just what the current Causeway Cup score may be, but I have it at UCD 30.08, CSUS 12.5.

The next meeting between the two schools is this coming Thursday at 2:30 when the two teams meet in softball at Sacramento as the Hornets host the NorCall Kickoff.

It was a day for upsets...Kansas lost at Iowa State, Purdue lost at Indiana, and Gonzaga lost at St. Mary's.

DAVIS, Calif. – UC Davis head football coach Dan Hawkins announced the hiring of Quinn Shanbour to coach the Aggies quarterbacks. Shanbour comes to Davis from the University of North Texas.

"Quinn comes highly recommended by people we trust," Coach Hawkins said. "He has been a part of one of the most explosive offenses in the country and has quarterback experience. Quinn and his family will melt into and add to our amazing culture in UC Davis!"

Shanbour joined the UNT coaching staff in 2019 and most recently was an analyst that worked with the Mean Green quarterbacks.

This past season UNT quarterback Austin Aune set a new UNT record with 33 touchdown passes and led the nation averaging 15.29 yards per completion.

He served as a graduate assistant from 2020-21, spending time with both the quarterbacks and tight ends. In 2020, Shanbour helped mentor the UNT quarterbacks. Under his guidance UNT finished 25th nationally in passing offense with 283.0 ypg.

A native of Oklahoma City, Okla., Shanbour appeared in 28 games in his time as a UNT student-athlete, and served on the team's leadership council in 2017 and 2018. He walked on at Oklahoma State before transferring to North Texas in 2013.

Shanbour has four degrees from UNT including three master's degrees (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021). He and his wife, Alexis, have two children, Charlotte and Maverick.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2023/1/19/football-quinn-shanbour-named-quarterbacks-coach-at-uc-davis.aspx

Present day Sacramento Executive Airport in the South Land Park area

Always guess work to figure out just what is and what isn't a Causeway Cup event anymore as the UCD website is not well maintained and Sac simply does not have any listing for the competition on their athletic website, but if anything I will error on the side of including an event rather than excluding it. Ags defeated CSUS in gymnastics this afternoon at a meet in Sacramento. Final score was UCD 194.050, CSUS 191.375. The teams will meet four times this season, so I awarded just 1.25 points for the victory. At that the running score is now UCD 28.75, CSUS 12.5. I believe the next meeting between the two schools will be a women's golf meet, the Valley Invitational, on February 6th and 7th in Bakersfield. CA.

Always good to see a team in blue & gold defeat a team in green & gold.

Who would think these two MVFC/Dakota teams would score so often so fast. An SDSU FG makes it 31-14 "as the first half truly winds down."
Two TDs and a FG in the last three plus minutes.

Well the Bison made a fool of me, suddenly 28-14, "as the first half winds down."

Jackrabbits are making this look easy. 28-7 as the first half winds down.

Kings waived Chima today (January 6th.)

Ejiro Evero apparently was offered the Broncos' interim head coaching job but turned it down.

Who would want a two week job trying to extinguish that oil well fire?

https://clutchpoints.com/broncos-coach-turned-down-interim-job-after-nathaniel-hackett-firing

Why play on a Sunday up against the last day of the NFL regular season, as opposed to Saturday the 7th when there are few games?

To bring this thread back to UCD or FCS football…announcer said there are four Montana State players on the rosters of these two teams. I am not going to set my egg nog down to fact check him.