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Mustangs Visit UC Davis for Three-Game, March 15-16 Series on ESPN+
3/13/2025 11:00:00 AM | Softball
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SAN LUIS OBISPO – Seeking its first Big West victory of 2025, the Cal Poly softball program visits UC Davis for a three-game, March 15-16 series. With action streamed via ESPN+, the series opens with 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday, March 15 before closing with a 12 noon matchup on Sunday, March 16. Swept at home by CSUN (March 8-9) to open Big West action, Cal Poly (4-20, 0-3) resides just a game behind sixth-place UC Davis (7-18, 1-2) in the conference standings with the top six programs qualifying for the inaugural May 7-10 Big West Championship. UC Davis, which dropped two of its three Big West-opening matchups at Cal State Bakersfield before edging Pacific Tuesday (2-1), ranks second from bottom among conference programs with a 5.49 ERA.
FOLLOW CAL POLY THIS WEEKEND: ESPN+ coverage and live stats for all three matchups at UC Davis will be available via GoPoly.com HERE.
CAL POLY VERSUS UC DAVIS: Having won eight of the past nine series against UC Davis, Cal Poly leads the all-time series, 42-35, dating to the first matchups – a Mustang doubleheader sweep – on Feb. 19, 1983. Cal Poly’s home sweep of the Aggies last season marked the first time one program had taken all three series games from the other since 2013.
BARNETT ADDS OFFENSE TO THE RESUME: The reigning Big West Defensive Player of the Year honoree, senior catch Julia Barnett remains Cal Poly’s top hitter, leading the Mustangs with a .375 (24-for-64) batting average, 24 hits, 32 total bases, 14 RBI and a .500 slugging percentage. Having hit safely in 12 of her last 14 games and a team best 16 times this season, Barnett – who swatted her second career homer during a Feb. 8 home matchup with Oregon State – also paces Cal Poly with seven multi-hit games and four multi-RBI games A starter in all 107 games since the start of the 2023 season, Barnett is a .987 career fielder with just nine errors in 667 total chances.
BERMUDEZ BREAKS OUT: Hitting safely in 14 of her first 20 collegiate games, freshman left fielder Maddy Bermudez enters Cal Poly’s March 15-16 series at UC Davis as the program’s second leading hitter with a .322 (19-for-59) mark. Batting .400 (8-for-20) in Cal Poly’s last six games, Bermudez leads Cal Poly with nine runs and a pair of triples. Bermudez is one of only three Mustangs to start all 20 games and the only freshman to do so.
BLANCHARD HEATS UP: Having reached base in 11 successive games, junior center fielder Kiara Blanchard – third among Big West players with seven doubles – enters Cal Poly’s March 15-16 series at UC Davis batting .470 (8-for-17) in the program’s last six outings.
ERSKINE ON THE RISE: Just one Mustang – senior catcher Julia Barnett – had produced a three-game game this season until freshman shortstop Sienna Erskine accomplished the feat for the first time in her career during Cal Poly’s 4-3 win against Loyola Marymount (March 2). With just one hit in her first seven collegiate games, Erskine – a starter in 16 of 19 appearances – has three multi-hit efforts in her last eight outings.
CONDON ON THE VERGE OF MORE HISTORY: The winningest female head coach in university history, Jenny Condon requires just 19 more Mustang victories to become only the fifth head coach in Big West history to reach 500 career wins. Cal Poly’s April 12 doubleheader opening matchup at UC Riverside will also mark Condon’s 1,000th career game – a figure reached by just two previous Big West head coaches. A four-time Big West Coach of the Year honoree, Condon ranks sixth in conference history with both 481 total victories and 206 Big West wins.
CAL POLY SELECTED FIFTH IN BIG WEST PRESEASON POLL: A year after finishing third in the Big West standings with an 18-8 mark, Cal Poly was selected for a fifth-place finish during the 2025 season following the Jan. 30 release of the conference preseason coaches’ poll. The Mustangs earned 45 points to finish seven votes shy of Hawai’i. Long Beach State, last season’s Big West runner-up, took top spot in the poll with 81 total points and nine of 10 first-place votes. Defending champion Cal State Fullerton earned 63 points and the remaining first-place vote. UC Santa Barbara was third on 59 points.
Mustangs resume Big West play with a three-game, March 15-16 series at UC Davis. Action on ESPN+ begins with a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday, March 15!#RideHigh pic.twitter.com/7copmc0gF2
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