It's also good for bench morale, and good sportsmanship.

Some of these schools must have two tracks; a serious student track, and a pay-as-you-go track. Upon completion of which ever track they pursue the former should get actual diplomas and the latter can just get participation certificates.

I see that the Gianulli sisters have "withdrawn" from USC. Probably had someone fill out the withdrawal forms, or tweeted them.

I have always wondered what happens to people who get a boost like this to get into an elite college...you have a gimmick to get into a tough school, now how do you survive? How do you stay afloat at an Ivy League school when the only way you got in was parents' money, bribes, people taking your SATs for you...Same thoughts come up with so many stories about scholarship athletes. And how will they make it after college? (That is, if there's not a job waiting for you as VP in charge of coffee and social media at parent's corporation.....but I digress.)

(...though I am not sure we ought to be wondering about a second game after the results of the first one...)

I pulled the entry below from the baseball thread. Goags20172 noted the confusion. I imagine both teams are running around trying to find games and blanks in their schedules to make up for missed games in a rainy winter.

As I recall, last year's softball game was never made up after a weather "postponement."

"Goags20172
That was the impression I got as well. When Sac State added a Sunday game against Marge Simpson College the press release said it was to replace the rained out game against UCD. Then they cancelled that game due to rain that never happened. UCD may not make up the Santa Clara game either. They made it difficult to do sp by adding extra games against UOP and USF."

More new math. Yesterdary the UCD Causeway website showed UCD with 43.33 points. Add 2.5 for the softball win and this morning the score is 45.84. We need to win the third and final beach volleyball match with its 1.33 points to resolve my inner obsessive-compulsive disorder...I hope.

And the site is inconsistent on whether the postponed baseball game from the last week of February will be made up. As of this morning it is showing 2.5 pts for yesterday's game with a game to be made up. Yesterday morning it was showing 5 pts for yesterday's game.

"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."

Based on the UCD Causeway Cup site, women's golf added an event last week. Sac came in first and UCD fourth at the Gunrock Invitational to move the current score to UCD 43.33, CSUS 12.5.

Also, the website is listing 5 points for the UCD at CSUS baseball game on March 12th, suggesting that the earlier rain-out game has gone from "postponed" to "cancelled."

The baseball press release indicates the Ags and Hornets will still play a home and away series this year, (https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/3/11/baseball-aggie-to-face-hornets-tigers-in-mid-week-meetings.aspx?path=baseball ), however the Causeway Cup site is giving this game the full 5 points, (https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/2018/9/4/Causeway-Cup-18-19.aspx ), indicating the game originally scheduled in February but postponed for rain will not be made up.

As a side note, Bradley, Coach Les' alma mater and his previous college coaching position, won the Missouri Valley tournament tonight with a victory over Northern Iowa and will be going to the NCAA tournament. Keep the faith. Bradley was the 5 seed and Northern Iowa the 6th. The top four teams lost in the conference tournament.

I'm thinking the Ike & Tina Turner Review might have been the first step on the road to needing seismic retrofitting.

Buildings at Tercero have been knocked down?!?!?!?!?

Lord, I feel old(er) now.

Saw BB King at Freeborn, and Tina Turner when she was still with Ike.

Which isn’t to say that it wouldn’t be awesome to run the table and beat them by 70.01.

I am also curious, but the UCD athletic site, adding two victories at 1.67 points each to a previous score of 40 points, has the cumulative score as 43.33 points for UCD. 1.67+1.67= 3.33. Must be new math.

"50 years (and a little...) since I graduated from high school and I have yet to use the quadratic formula in my life."

So to revise my earlier comment....a victory in beach volley ball will assure a tie...a victory in any other sport assures a win.

WIth today's sweep of the beach volleyball games, Ags pick up 3.34 points to take a 43.4-10 lead in the running Causeway Cup score. A victory in any sport assures the Ags will win yet another Cup. And it's barely March. Life is good.

Just saw that. To borrow a line, I think from Dr. Mike, after the equestrian team started with a victory over Delaware State, "these were the greatest wins in program history, no question!"

UCD gymnastics 195.450 - Slack 192.625 tonight giving the Ags another Causeway victory. Running score is now UCD 40, Slack 10. This was a triangular meet and Cal was the over all winner. Next schedule are two beach volleyball matches tomorrow, followed by softball at Davis and baseball at Sac 10 days later.

Go Ags.

How about the cap logo for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro Leagues?

According to both websites the beach volleyball games set for tomorrow, March 2nd, will be played at the new facility at Howard Field rather than at the park in Folsom which is Slack's home court.

Of course with the current weather forecast it may not matter where the matches are scheduled if they are likely to be postponed.

I like the "lemon" CA logo. Not as cluttered as the revised horse-head logo. (Though I like that as well.)

Softball has been rescheduled to April 30th due to rain. Baseball has been pushed back one day to Wednesday the 27th, also due to rain. I guess the baseball teams are more optimistic about the weather.

In other Causeway Cup news, beach volleyball has been added. There are three matches scheduled this year, all at the park in Folsom which serves as Slack's home sand court; two on March 2nd and one on April 5th. Our new courts will not be used in competition until late April. This year each beach volleyball match will count 1.67 pts. Next season will go to a home and away with each match counting for 2.5 points. Guess that means that there are 90.01 points at stake this year. Ags have 37.5 points thus far and will need 7.51 to clinch. Next scheduled event is gymnastics at Sacramento this Friday evening for a triangular meet with Slack and Cal.