Weekly Mustang Roundup: Oct. 6-12
10/6/2026 8:00:00 PM | General, Women's Soccer
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Bronco Invitational
THIS WEEK IN MUSTANG ATHLETICS
- After earning a hard-fought 1-0 victory at UC San Diego thanks to a late penalty kick save from Shannon Porubski, the Cal Poly women’s soccer team returns home to host a pivotal conference match against Utah Valley at 6 p.m. Saturday.
- Men’s soccer looks to gain ground in the Pac-12 with another road trip this weekend, first at San Diego State on Wednesday before closing the second leg of the Blue-Green rivalry against UC Santa Barbara in Gaucho territory on Saturday.
- After hosting Weber State in front of a 11,000+ sellout crowd last weekend, the Mustang football team aims to get back in the win column against Big Sky foe No. 16 Idaho State in Pocatello, Idaho this Saturday.
- Sitting atop the Big West alongside UC Santa Barbara with a perfect 4-0 record, Cal Poly volleyball heads to Los Angeles for another pair of road conference matches at Cal State Fullerton on Friday and Long Beach State on Saturday.
- Cal Poly men's tennis is another Mustang squad headed to UC Santa Barbara this weekend with the UCSB Classic on Oct. 9-11, a tournament where many of the region's best programs will clash.
- Jessica MacCallum and Natalie Lynch on the Cal Poly women’s tennis team punched their ticket to the ITA Conference Masters Championships in November by winning the doubles title at the Big West Fall Selection event in La Jolla over the weekend. The Mustangs get a week off before heading back south to San Diego for the ITA Southwest Regionals on Oct. 15-20.
- Achieving a perfect score of 15 for the first time in 11 years, the Cal Poly women’s cross country team swept the top five places to win the Pacific Invitational at Micke Grove Golf Course in Lodi last Friday.
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WEEKLY SNEAK PEEK
- Coming off a Southern California road trip that saw them post a 1-1-0 record across a pair of Big West matches, the Mustangs are back at Spanos Stadium on Saturday to host Utah Valley. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. on ESPN+ and you can purchase tickets to the Pride Night match HERE.
- Saturday’s contest will be a matchup between two of the top teams in the Big West. Cal Poly (5-4-3) currently sits in a three-way tie for fourth place in the Big West standings with a 2-1-1 conference record (7 points), just one point behind Utah Valley (6-4-3, 2-0-2 BW), UC Santa Barbara and Cal State Fullerton, who are tied for first place with 8 points.
- The Mustangs are 0-2-0 all-time against the Wolverines with UVU beating Cal Poly 2-0 in the last meeting on Aug. 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City.
- Last year, Utah Valley earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament after falling to Cal Baptist in the WAC Tournament Championship match. The Wolverines lost to No. 3 seed Colorado 2-1 in the NCAA First Round as the Buffaloes scored a golden goal in the 106th minute to secure a 2-1 double overtime victory.
- Junior Miah Thomas, a transfer from Cal State Bakersfield, is responsible for six of Cal Poly’s 13 goals this season, burying a penalty kick in the fourth minute to propel Cal Poly to a 1-0 victory at UC San Diego this past Saturday. Thomas is a perfect 4-4 on penalty kicks this season and her six goals are tied for third most in the Big West.
- Junior goalkeeper Shannon Porubski secured her 12th career clean sheet and her third of the season against the Tritons, preserving the Mustangs’ victory with a clutch penalty kick save in the 86th minute.
- 29 players have seen the field for the Mustangs this season with six starting in all 12 matches — senior Siena Urzua, juniors Miah Thomas, Mya Clarke and Shannon Porubski, sophomore Sam Walker and freshman Kate Nunes.
- Following Saturday’s match, Cal Poly travels to CSUN on Wednesday, Oct. 14, and Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday, Oct. 17.
- Cal Poly seeks the first Pac-12 victory in program history on Wednesday, Oct. 8 with the Mustangs visiting San Diego State at 7 p.m. on YouTube. The non-conference matchup between the two sides on Aug. 30 in San Luis Obispo finished in a 1-1 draw.
- With one point from two Pac-12 matches, Cal Poly (4-3-4, 0-1-1) shares fourth place in the table with San Diego State (2-6-4, 0-0-1).
- Following Wednesday’s game, Cal Poly renews the Blue-Green rivalry at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday, Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. on ESPN+. Behind an 87th-minute goal from junior Devin Bening, Cal Poly captured the season opener against the Gauchos at home on Sept. 25, 2-1.
- Four of Cal Poly’s final six regular season matchups occur against ranked programs – a stretch that begins Saturday, Oct. 10 at No. 16 Idaho State. Kickoff from the ICCU Dome is 3 p.m. PT on ESPN+.
- Cal Poly (3-3, 2-1) enters the contest in a five-way tie for second place in the Big Sky Conference standings alongside No. 6 Montana State, No. 11 UC Davis, No. 13 Northern Arizona and Weber State. Cal Poly’s final three games come against the aforementioned ranked programs.
- One of the FCS’s top offensive threats, junior running back Jaden Green leads the nation with 183.5 all-purpose yards per game, ranks fourth with 130.3 rushing yards per game and 28th with five rushing touchdowns.
- Cal Poly Volleyball swept two new Big West foes on the road last week, beating Sacramento State on Thursday before sweeping Utah Valley on Saturday. It was a domination of both foes who had a combined .099 hitting percentage against the .430 mark for the Mustangs.
- The victory over Sacramento State was Head Coach Caroline Walters' 85th Big West win, the most conference wins in program history. Walters sits just three career wins from tying and four from passing the program record of 143 set by Mike Wilton.
- Cal Poly continues their road excursion, facing Cal State Fullerton before traveling 20 minutes south to face Long Beach.
- The Mustangs have swept the Titans in each of the last four games, and have won the past 8 contests (24-4 overall). Against the Beach, Cal Poly is 15-14, but have won 8 of the last 11 matches, including knocking out the 2025 Big West Championship host Beach.
- The Mustangs had a strong Friday at the Sherwood Collegiate Cup, sweeping the doubles and winning all three of the singles matches played. The rest of the weekend saw the team held winless against tough competition from Cal, New Mexico and USC.
- After an up and down weekend in Westlake Village, men’s tennis travels to Santa Barbara to compete against multiple highly-ranked programs in the region such as Pepperdine, LMU, USC, San Diego State, UCLA, Saint Mary's, Stanford, Santa Clara, UC San Diego, and current Big West foes UC Irvine and the host Gauchos.
- For the first time this season, the team will all travel together with every player making an appearance except Sean Kamyshev and Jack Lukic due to lingering injuries.
- Senior Natalie Lynch and junior Jessica MacCallum punched their ticket to the ITA Conference Masters Championships over the weekend in La Jolla, going 5-0 in doubles to win the Big West Fall Selection title.
- Lynch and MacCallum were also busy in singles play at the tournament, with Lynch making it into the quarterfinals while MacCallum went all the way to the semifinals before losing to the eventual singles champion at the event.
- Women’s tennis gets a week off before heading back south to San Diego for the ITA Southwest Regionals on Oct. 15-20.
- Earning a perfect score of 15 for the first time in 11 years, the Cal Poly women’s cross country team swept the top five places to win the Pacific Invite held at the Micke Grove Golf Course in Lodi this past Friday.
- All 11 runners on the women’s side finished in the top 20, led by Melisse Djomby Enyawe, who placed first to earn Big West Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Week honors for the first time.
- The men’s team sent just four runners, but all of them finished inside the top six. Freshman Kyle Jakary finished second with an 8K time of 24:57.7.
- The Mustangs return to competition next week for their final action of the regular season, splitting the squad between the Arturo Barrios Invitational hosted by Texas A&M on Friday, Oct. 16, and the Bronco Invitational hosted by Santa Clara on Saturday, Oct. 17.
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