Friday, August 27
Santa Clara, CA
7:30 P.M.
at
Santa Clara
Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics
Cal Poly Opens Regular Season at Santa Clara Friday, Saint Mary’s Monday
8/26/2021 11:44:00 AM | Men's Soccer
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Returning six regular starters, 10 letterwinners and 53 percent of its goal production from the 2019 squad, the Cal Poly men's soccer program plays its first match in 20 months when opening the 2021 regular season on Friday, Aug. 27 at Santa Clara. Kickoff is 7 p.m. for Cal Poly, which concludes its season-opening road trip with a 4 p.m. matchup at Saint Mary's on Monday, Aug. 30. After opening its training camp on Aug. 10, Cal Poly – which saw its 2020 season cancelled – completed preparations for 2021 with a 1-0 road exhibition loss at UCLA (Aug. 21) before topping Division II Fresno Pacific on Tuesday at home as three freshmen goalscorers helped finalize a 4-1 decision. Santa Clara, which produced a scoreless draw at No. 8 Stanford (Aug. 21) in its third and final exhibition match, finished its postponed 2020 season this past spring with a 4-4-0 mark. Saint Mary's, which opens its season Thursday evening against California, earned 13 points in the preseason edition of the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 poll to finish 25 votes behind No. 25 Coastal Carolina.
FOLLOW CAL POLY THIS WEEK: Live stats and streaming video from Friday's 7 p.m. opener at Santa Clara and Monday's 4 p.m. matchup at Saint Mary's will be available via GoPoly.com HERE.
CAL POLY VERSUS SANTA CLARA: The Mustangs and Broncos square off for just the third time in the last 21 years with Santa Clara producing a 2-0 road victory in the last matchup between the two sides on Sept. 18, 2018. Santa Clara leads the Division I series, 4-1-0, with Cal Poly's lone victory against the Broncos a 2-0 win on Oct. 17, 1994.
CAL POLY VERSUS SAINT MARY'S: The Mustangs have won three of the last four meetings against Saint Mary's to draw the Division I series, 5-5-0. The Gaels, however, handed Cal Poly a 4-0 defeat in the last matchup on Sept. 9, 2018.
ONE-TO-100: Santa Clara's head coach from 1986-90, seventh-year Cal Poly manager Steve Sampson's first collegiate victory was a 4-1 triumph at Loyola Marymount on Sept. 1, 1986. Thirty-six years on, Cal Poly's next victory will mark Sampson's 100th collegiate coaching victory. Sampson, who led Santa Clara to the 1989 NCAA Tournament co-championship, finished 64-19-19 with the Broncos. Named Cal Poly's head coach on Dec. 4, 2014, Sampson owns 35 victories with the Mustangs and a 99-61-31 career collegiate mark.
UP NEXT (SEPT. 3/6): Cal Poly opens its eight-game home schedule inside Alex G. Spanos Stadium when hosting San Diego State on Friday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. and San Francisco on Monday, Sept. 6 at 4 p.m. Cal Poly's home opener against San Diego State marks just the third meeting between the two sides in the past 21 years. Cal Poly is undefeated versus San Diego State in the last four meetings, handing the Aztecs a 1-0 defeat during the last matchup on Sept. 16, 2017 at SDSU Sports Park. Facing San Francisco for just the fifth time at the Division I level, Cal Poly finished in a scoreless road draw versus the Dons during the last meeting on Sept. 30, 2019.
FOLLOW CAL POLY THIS WEEK: Live stats and streaming video from Friday's 7 p.m. opener at Santa Clara and Monday's 4 p.m. matchup at Saint Mary's will be available via GoPoly.com HERE.
CAL POLY VERSUS SANTA CLARA: The Mustangs and Broncos square off for just the third time in the last 21 years with Santa Clara producing a 2-0 road victory in the last matchup between the two sides on Sept. 18, 2018. Santa Clara leads the Division I series, 4-1-0, with Cal Poly's lone victory against the Broncos a 2-0 win on Oct. 17, 1994.
CAL POLY VERSUS SAINT MARY'S: The Mustangs have won three of the last four meetings against Saint Mary's to draw the Division I series, 5-5-0. The Gaels, however, handed Cal Poly a 4-0 defeat in the last matchup on Sept. 9, 2018.
ONE-TO-100: Santa Clara's head coach from 1986-90, seventh-year Cal Poly manager Steve Sampson's first collegiate victory was a 4-1 triumph at Loyola Marymount on Sept. 1, 1986. Thirty-six years on, Cal Poly's next victory will mark Sampson's 100th collegiate coaching victory. Sampson, who led Santa Clara to the 1989 NCAA Tournament co-championship, finished 64-19-19 with the Broncos. Named Cal Poly's head coach on Dec. 4, 2014, Sampson owns 35 victories with the Mustangs and a 99-61-31 career collegiate mark.
UP NEXT (SEPT. 3/6): Cal Poly opens its eight-game home schedule inside Alex G. Spanos Stadium when hosting San Diego State on Friday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. and San Francisco on Monday, Sept. 6 at 4 p.m. Cal Poly's home opener against San Diego State marks just the third meeting between the two sides in the past 21 years. Cal Poly is undefeated versus San Diego State in the last four meetings, handing the Aztecs a 1-0 defeat during the last matchup on Sept. 16, 2017 at SDSU Sports Park. Facing San Francisco for just the fifth time at the Division I level, Cal Poly finished in a scoreless road draw versus the Dons during the last meeting on Sept. 30, 2019.
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