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  • Big West Basketball Coaching News
    The most recent figures compiled by transparentcalifornia.com are for 2021. That site lists the top 5 employees and their compensation (total pay & benefits) for the University of California system as:
    Charles Kelley (Head footbball coach, UCLA) $5,775,150
    Justin Wilcox (Head football coach, Cal) $3,989,491
    Michael Cronini (Head basketball coach, UCLA) $3,804,308
    Jason Roostaeian (Assoc. Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine) $3,426,298
    James Mora (Former head football coach, UCLA) $3,104,975
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    UCD swept Sac in beach volleyball today, 5-0, at the Big West Challenge in San Luis Obispo.

    Now, I will confess that in my advancing years I screwed up the math in my unofficial running tally for the moribund Causeway Cup. I won't go into the details, but as recalculated I have the score as UCD 42.51, CSUS 15.84.

    I believe the next meeting between the schools is in women's golf as both teams are entered in the Wyoming Cowgirl Classic on April 3-4. That of course is held in Maricopa, Wyoming, er, Arizona.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    Gymnastic from Berkeley: UCD 3rd of 4, 196.425 - CSUS 4th of 4, 194.875

    Running (very unofficial) cup score: UCD 40.16, CSUS 15.16.

    Next event is the Big West Challenge in beach volleyball, to be held the weekend of March 25-26 in San Luis Obispo. The Aggies and Hornets are scheduled to meet on Saturday afternoon.
  • March Madness
    Vandy lost to Texas A&M in the semis.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    Baseball score from Sac: CSUS 9, UCD 6
    Estimated Running Causeway Cup Score: UCD 38.91, CSUS 15.16

    Next meeting is a quadruple gymnastics meet along with Cal and Arizona to be held at Berkeley on March 12th.
  • Aggie Baseball Scores Thread 2023
    TIed at 5 in the middle of the 5th.
  • Derek Moore named head wrestling coach at CBU
    or why Arkansas-Little Rock is in the PAC 12.

    Next thing you know UCLA and USC will be in the Big 10.

    It would make sense for CBU to be in the PAC 12. Cal Poly and CSUBakersfield are. CBU beat Bakersfield in a dual meet this season.
  • Aggie Baseball Scores Thread 2023
    Sac website reporting that Tuesday's game has been moved to Sac due to unplayable field conditions at Davis.
    https://hornetsports.com/news/2023/3/6/baseball-field-conditions-in-davis-force-change-of-venue-for-baseball.aspx
  • Aggie Baseball Scores Thread 2023
    Regarding the scheduling: I wonder if the teams scheduled this game some time last week just in case weekend games got rained out. Once it became apparent the weekend games would be played, they could cancel the Monday game.

    Have a family relative involved in high school baseball in the Sacramento area. He says they are scrambling to play games. Even if the skies cooperate the ground is still too wet.
  • Derek Moore named head wrestling coach at CBU
    Lancers had only one first round win (who lost in the second round) and finished in last place (13th) in the Big 12 Conference wrestling tournament this past weekend.

    They went 3-12 overall and 1-6 in conference in dual meets this season.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    As noted on a baseball thread, the baseball schedule has changed yet again. Monday's game at Sacramento has been canceled. The Tuesday game in Davis is still on as scheduled and the April 11th game has been moved back to Sacramento..

    Another quirk: Sac has women's rowing as a varstiy team. Davis has rowing at the club sport level. The CSUS schedule lists a May 6 competition against UC Davis. The UC Davis Rowing Club confirms that.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    Today's softball score: UCD 7, CSUS 4.

    How long has it been since we've swept softball?

    Causeway score: UCD 38.91, CSUS 13.83.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    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.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    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.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    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.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    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.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    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.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    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.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    "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.
  • Causeway Cup (?) 2022-23
    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.