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2/4/2021 1:01:00 PM | Softball
COMPLETE BIG WEST POLL RESULTS
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Featuring 17 returning letterwinners from last season's squad, the Cal Poly softball program was predicted for a fifth-place finish in the Big West standings following the Thursday afternoon release of conference preseason coaches poll.
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Cal Poly, scheduled to open the 2021 regular season on Friday, Feb. 12 with a 12 noon doubleheader at Loyola Marymount, received 43 points in the poll – one vote shy of fourth-place Hawai'i.
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Four-time defending Big West champion Cal State Fullerton was selected to repeat a title last won in 2019 after receiving seven of nine first-place votes and 79 total points. Long Beach State finished second in the poll on 63 points and one first-place vote. UC Davis came in third with 52 points.
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Following Cal Poly in fifth was UC Riverside (37 points), CSUN (34 and the remaining first-place vote) and UC Santa Barbara (27). UC San Diego, making its Division I debut in 2021, finished ninth with 26 points. Another first-year Big West member, CSU Bakersfield, opted out of the 2021 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cal Poly finished 10-13 in 2020 after last season was curtailed in mid-March.
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SAN LUIS OBISPO – Featuring 17 returning letterwinners from last season's squad, the Cal Poly softball program was predicted for a fifth-place finish in the Big West standings following the Thursday afternoon release of conference preseason coaches poll.
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Cal Poly, scheduled to open the 2021 regular season on Friday, Feb. 12 with a 12 noon doubleheader at Loyola Marymount, received 43 points in the poll – one vote shy of fourth-place Hawai'i.
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Four-time defending Big West champion Cal State Fullerton was selected to repeat a title last won in 2019 after receiving seven of nine first-place votes and 79 total points. Long Beach State finished second in the poll on 63 points and one first-place vote. UC Davis came in third with 52 points.
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Following Cal Poly in fifth was UC Riverside (37 points), CSUN (34 and the remaining first-place vote) and UC Santa Barbara (27). UC San Diego, making its Division I debut in 2021, finished ninth with 26 points. Another first-year Big West member, CSU Bakersfield, opted out of the 2021 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cal Poly finished 10-13 in 2020 after last season was curtailed in mid-March.
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