Aggie women defeated Sac, 5-0, in beach volleyball at the Big West Challenge hosted by Long Beach State. Unofficial running score of the unofficial 2021-22 Causeway Cup is UCD 37.5, CSUS 25. Next scheduled event is between the men's golf teams when they both compete at the El Macero Classic on April 20-22. Then on the 23rd (Picnic Day!!) both beach volleyball and women's tennis teams compete in Davis.

Tittle passed away in 2017, a few weeks short of his 91st birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y._A._Tittle
He was involved in some sort of summer camp for boys in the north bay area, possibly in the southern part of Sonoma County. My parents sent me there the summer after I was in 6th grade. That might have been the last year he had anything to do with the camp because it was about the time he was traded to the Giants. He was only at the camp on weekends. I met him the first weekend and out of the blue he looks at me and tells me he expects me to keep another camper from getting homesick. Week went by without any problems, and on the following weekend Tittle asks the kid something and for the first time the other kid ever got sad and weepy. Then Tittle rolls his eyes at me. I recall him standing on whatever passed for a football field at the camp and throwing footballs through tires suspended from goal posts that seemed like they were a mile away.

St. Mary's and Santa Clara used to pack Kezar for the Little Big Game.

No real surprise here as the women's golf team has finished in last place or next to last in most of the events they have entered this year. They finished in 15th place with a score of 924 at the Fresno State Classic. Sac finished with 893 strokes and tied for 7th.

As I noted in an ealier post, Davis is a very young team. Four of seven golfers are true freshmen. One is from Kyiv, Ukraine and according to her bio still competes for the Ukrainian national team, or did recently. The current situation there has to effect her mental game, but then how much of golf is mental?

The tournament was a good indicator of the Big West competition as seven of the nine conference teams competed in Fresno.

Unofficial running score for this year's faux-Causeway Cup is UCD 35, CSUS 25. Next event is a scheduled beach volleyball match at the Big West Challenge next weekend in Long Beach.

"Kezar stadium has fresher air."

It had fresh air during the "Summer of Love" and the Haight-Ashbury days.

It was a tough weekend to be an Iowa fan. Both basketball teams, coming off of Big 10 tournament titles, were upset. Creighton women shut down Iowa's talented guard. Wrestling team underperformed in the NCAA tournament. Softball team lost to top rated Oklahoma, 20-0, in a game called after five innings....

...but back to basketball, one of the stars for Creighton played for Iowa last year, then had a starring role in the upset in front of a sold out Iowa crowd.

Not sure UOP would have been a viable alternative even with a stadium. A couple of years ago (or more) at the height of one of our smokier periods my wife and I were traveling to Yosemite from Sacramento and the smoke was as bad, or worse, in Stockton as it had been in Sacramento.

UOP tore down their stadium. It was in pretty bad shape and refitting it would be too expensive, particularly if the school no longer had football.

The site now houses a tennis facility and soccer pitch. It was the home field for UOP's short lived field hockey team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagg_Memorial_Stadium

I recall Sochor saying that he was concerned about rumors that UCSB was going to move it's then D-3 football program to D-2. As he said, once a recruit visits Santa Barbara we'll never get him to Davis.

For their efforts Fullerton gets Duke in Coach K’s last tournament.

As usual, I learn a lot from your posts. After reading a comment you made on another post about Slack defeating "No. 6" Long Beach, as well as this thread, it is interesting to read the different rankings included in the Slack State post about their own national ranking. A week ago the Hornets were ranked at four different positions (20, 23, 24, 25) in four different polls. Not one of those polls had Long Beach as No. 6 in their "Previous" column. I think the highest anybody had the Dirtbags was #10. It's also worth noting that pre-season and early season polls don't mean much, and I bet a couple of years of a pandemic have not helped. Slack has gone 1-5 since they were ranked. Life's too short for me to search for updated rankings, but I doubt anyone has them in their top 25 now.

Somebody's thoughts on betting the Big West tournament. He thinks six teams have a chance of winning. Ags are not any of them.
https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-basketball-betting-big-west-has-six-teams-that-could-win-the-tournament-170004519.html

Great article and a nice reflection on UCD, but the life of an assistant coach or coordinator at the college or pro level is a tough one. They don't stay in any one place for very long.

The Hornets defeated the Aggies today in softball, 3-2.

Causeway "score" is UCD 35, CSUS 22.5.

Next competition between the two schools is March 21-22 when the women's golf teams play in the Fresno State Classic.

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Aggies and Hornet split today as Davis won the gymnastics meet in Sacramento, 196.225 - 195.400, to sweep the season series. In a softball game in Davis the Hornets defeated the Aggies, 2-1.

Unofficial Causeway Cup score is now UCD 35, CSUS 20.

The softball teams meet again tomorrow in Sacramento as part of the Capitol Classic.

Sac finished tied for 6th place (of 11 teams) with 866 strokes, well ahead of the Aggies who finished in 10th place with a score of 882, at the Gunrock Classic.

The Aggies are a very young team - of seven players on the roster there is one senior, a sophomore, a red-shirt sophomore and four freshmen. (One of the freshmen is Elle Rastvortseva of Kyiv, Ukraine.) They have finished either in last place or next to last in most of their competitions this year, going back to the fall season.

Sac had a player hit a hole-in-one yesterday.

The two teams will compete against each other again in three weeks at the Fresno State Classic. There still does not seem to be an official Causeway Cup, so unofficially, and awarding 2.5 points for this meet, the running score is UCD 33.75, CSUS 17.5.

The next competition between the schools is on Saturday, March 5th, when they will meet in gymnastics at Sacramento and also in softball at Davis as part of the Capital Classic. The softball teams are scheduled to meet again on the following day in Sacramento, also as part of the Capital Classic.

ESPN story on Campbell:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/33323417/how-campbell-small-fcs-school-north-carolina-competing-deion-sanders-fbs-teams

Whatever the "official" status of the Causeway Cup may be this season, yesterday was a good day for the Ags in competitions against the Hornets. Men's tennis won, 4-3, in a match in Davis and gymnastics defeated the Hornets, 195.625-1995-000, in a meet in Sacramento. Unclear how gymnastics would be recorded in a year when neither school is recording anything, but conservatively the running score is UCD 32.5 - CSUS 15.

Next scheduled competition is women's golf when both teams compete in the Gunrock Invitational on February 28th and March 1st.

I don't recall the particulars. I followed USC football when a family member was going to school there, all in the Pete Carroll era. On one particular fansite Hackett was referred to (keeping in mind that Harry Potter was very popular at the time) as "He Who Shall Not Be Named."

As an Aggie I just bit my tongue.

(Yet there are USC publications which list people associated with the football program who had success in the pros or various halls of fame that list one time USC assistant Ken O'Brien.....)