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| The Mustangs and Gauchos face off again in the most anticipated game of the year.
Twenty-two years. Forty-three games. One unforgettable rivalry. Every October in San Luis Obispo, the weather becomes cooler with the fall season, new students endure midterms for the first time and greek life accepts new members. But there’s one more fall event that may trump all others — the biggest sporting event of the year. The Blue-Green men’s soccer game. The rivalry at large The Blue-Green rivalry began in 1921 with a football game between Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara — Santa Barbara Junior College at the time — on Nov. 5. The Mustangs won 42-0 in the first scene of this saga. In 1970, UC Santa Barbara made the change into NCAA Division I competition, halting the rivalry until Cal Poly joined the Division I ranks in 1994. In 2012, the Blue-Green rivalry was formally recognized by both schools. The rivalry between the two schools includes ten sports: cross country, volleyball, soccer, swimming and diving, basketball, tennis, track and field, men’s golf, softball and baseball. But the most popular sport of the rivalry lies in men’s soccer.
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| The Mustangs won in double-overtime in last year’s installment of the rivalry.
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Men’s soccer The men’s soccer Blue-Green rivalry was first established in 1994 following the Mustangs’ transition to Division I athletics. Sept. 3, 1994 saw the Mustangs win the inaugural match 2-0. Since that first match, the two teams have played in some of the
most watched games in NCAA soccer history. According to College Soccer News, six of the ten highest-attended regular season college men’s soccer matches have featured these two teams and their passionate fan bases. In each of the past five home games, Cal Poly has filled the 11,075-seat Alex. G Spanos Stadium to capacity. It’s often considered the best rivalry in the country, and recent history shows exactly why. From 1999 to 2007, the Gauchos won 15 of 17 matches against the Mustangs. But in the past few seasons, the Mustangs have been much more competitive, posting a 3-2-3 record since 2012. Three of the past four games have gone into double overtime, highlighted by last season’s 3-2 overtime thriller won by the Mustangs at Spanos. Senior defender Kody Wakasa’s header in the 104th minute, the first goal of his career, prompted the audience to rush the field. One week later, sophomore forward Jared Pressley scored off a rebound with six seconds remaining in regulation to snatch victory away from the Gauchos in Santa Barbara. Coach Steve Sampson, in his second season as head coach of the men’s soccer team, has a personal connection to each school. His daughter Emily graduated from UC Santa Barbara and his son Brandon graduated from Cal Poly. Looking forward After the success of last season’s team, which made it to the NCAA tournament, the Mustangs have had more of a down year. Losing top talents in goalkeeper Wade Hamilton, midfielder Chase Minter and defender Kip Colvey to the professional league left the Mustangs with many holes in
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the starting 11 to fill. This means relying on young talent such as redshirt sophomore Nick Carroll as defender, freshmen Christian Enriquez and Kenneth Higgins as midfielders and sophomore George Grote as forward to pick up the slack. Some growing pains can be expected with inexperienced players being required to step into bigger roles, and the Mustangs have shown just that. With six matches left in the 2016 season at press time, the Mustangs stand at 2-7-2 overall. Their 0-3-1 Big West Conference record puts them in last place out of eight teams. On the other side, the Gauchos look like stiff competition at the top of the conference table with a 7-5-1 record, 3-0-1 in the Big West. UC Santa Barbara features two of the conference’s top four scorers and leads the conference in scoring as a team. But there is hope for the Mustangs. The Gauchos are the top scoring offense in conference, but they also feature the second-worst defense in goals allowed. With senior forward Justin Dhillon already notching six goals this season, the Mustang attack could find opportunity against the Gauchos’ defense. If they do, they could play spoiler for UC Santa Barbara’s NCAA tournament hopes. No matter what happens in the game, you can expect one thing above all else Saturday night at Spanos: the best men’s soccer rivalry in the country with the best soccer fans in the nation. Twenty-two years. Forty-three going on fortyfour games. One unforgettable night of soccer.
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Ben Bradlee Jr. Will Peischel Special to Mustang News
Ben Bradlee Sr. left his son big shoes to fill; he was the executive editor for Washington Post when the newspaper broke the Watergate story. His son, Ben Bradlee Jr., is a newspaper man of similar caliber. One climactic moment of his career resurfaced with the 2015 Academy Award-winning film, “Spotlight.” The film tells the story of The Boston Globe’s publication of a series of stories that unraveled the extent of child molestation in the Catholic Church. Bradlee oversaw the Pulitzer Prizenominated coverage as a deputy managing editor through 2001 and 2002. Bradlee spent 25 years as an editor and reporter at The Boston Globe.
As an editor, he covering state and local politics, local news and oversaw the Spotlight team after which the movie was called. As a reporter, Bradlee worked on the same Spotlight team, covering state politics and national news. He also worked as an international correspondent and reported from locations spanning from Afghanistan to South Africa to Vietnam. In 1988, Bradlee covered the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign. Bradlee’s non-fiction work, “The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams,” was published in 2013 as a New York Times bestseller. Bradlee also worked for the Riverside Press-Enterprise until 1975 after a tour with the Peace Corps from 1970-72. He is a graduate of Colby College.
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Susan Goldberg In April of 2014, Susan Goldberg was named editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine. She is the 10th editor of the magazine, and the first female, since publication began in 1988. During her tenure, National Geographic coverage has expanded from nature and wildlife to include mankind and culture within the scope of its reporting. As of November, Goldberg’s role expanded to also include the position of editorial director for National Geographic Partners. Her industrious career began the summer before her senior year of college. Goldberg, an Ann Arbor, Michigan, native and Michigan State University (MSU) student, spent a summer internship with the Seattle PostIntelligencer. Rather than complete her education and graduate in 1981 as originally planned, she was offered
a job in Seattle. In 1982, she left Seattle and moved to Detroit to work for the Detroit Free Press, from 1982-1987. During her tenure there, Goldberg was the first woman assigned to cover the state legislature in Lansing, Michigan and spent her final year as the political editor. She also found time to complete her degree from MSU. After the Detroit Free Press, Goldberg spent two years at the San Jose Mercury News as an assistant city editor before moving on to USA Today, a post she held for 10 years. In 1999, Goldberg returned to San Jose as a managing editor until 2003. She held the post of executive editor from 2003 until 2007. After working for Bloomberg News for four years, she was hired by National Geographic in January of 2014 as an executive editor for the magazine.
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| Julia Morgan designed many buildings in her lifetime. One of the most humble ones is The Monday Club ,located on Monterey Street. She completed the structure in 1925.
How a building can teach you about humility Will Peischel Special to Mustang News
The place The Monday Club of San Luis Obispo at 1815 Monterey St. is easy to overlook. The building does not dominate the property on which it rests but rather it sits back unpretentiously, waiting for patrons to approach. The Monday Club does not demand, it waits for you to notice without a drop of martyrdom, much like its architect. If you’re driving down Monterey Street, you might speed right past it. But it is there — a few steps back, up three stairs, past the pair of eucalyptus trees. And recently, 1815 Monterey St. has begun to receive some notice.
The recognition On May 10, 2016, the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which keeps the official list of historic places worthy of preservation, officially recognized The Monday Club – built in 1934 to house the women’s club of the same name. The club was founded in November1924 to empower women and provide a medium for them to contribute to the community, less than a decade after women battled for the right to vote. According to former Monday Club President Christy Noble, the process of moving 1815 Monterey’s application for recognition from start to finish, from state to federal, took two years. She lik-
ened it to a doctoral dissertation. That certification, and the role The Monday Club’s member continues to play in the town’s development, was officially recognized on September 20 at the San Luis Obispo City Council meeting — a place that makes it easy to remember that San Luis Obispo is still a somewhat small place. The Monday Club’s administration sat front and center to see the council’s recognition added to the meeting’s minutes. Mayor Jan Marx acknowledged the absence of two council members with a quick quip. “The missing city council members are finishing up dinner, but they’ll be here shortly,” Marx said. With that, this certification feels all the more endearing. It is a small town victory. The significant cornerstone that instilled San Luis Obispo as small town-friendly and community-minded is here to stay, for now.
The architect The Monday Club is California-mission beige. Clean, black metal frames accordion around the clean, black metal front doors. Sleek moss film webs over bricks of the Spanish roof. For a building more than 80 years old, there’s no wrinkle in sight, no dusty surface by which to run a finger. The structure knows exactly what it is, with newfound validation that it’s exactly where it belongs. Thin white letters on the black charcoal wood sign: MONDAY CLUB; 1925;
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Julia Morgan, Architect. Morgan, the small architect with the soft voice who quietly designed more than 700 buildings, including Hearst Castle, would have almost certainly prohibited her name from being stenciled there. There is an issue with an adamant modesty: History tends to forget about the people who don’t put their name on things. In 2014, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) honored Morgan with its semi-annual Gold Medal. Morgan was only the 10th architect to receive the award posthumously since the institute’s 1907 establishment. She received the award 57 years after her death. The award recognizes “individuals whose work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture,” and highlighted a newfound interest in Morgan, a personality kept in the dark. Perhaps the more surprising fact here is Morgan was the first woman to win the award in its history, the last accomplishment in a long list of firsts. Decades after her death, the woman is being set free from historical obscurity. Morgan refused interviews; she preferred her work do the speaking for her. However, that doesn’t mean others didn’t speak on her behalf. Walter Steilberg, a friend and colleague who worked for Morgan between 1910 and 1921, wrote about an exchange that underlined her unpretentious nature in a 1969 issue of La Vista. “My most serious disagreement with her was over the text of the article that I wrote in the ‘Architect and Engineer of California’ in 1918; I was in charge of her office while she was away in the East and wrote a few paragraphs at the request of the edi-
tor of the magazine; she thought that the pictures were enough,” the story read. According to Hearst Monument Historian Victoria Kastner, Morgan gave Steilberg the silent treatment for weeks for praising her in his writings. She thought that success was exclusively the product of good work. “She had no patience with people who were self-promoters,” Kastner said. “She didn’t talk about it. She didn’t teach classes. She designed buildings.” Steilberg went on to write
that Morgan thought the architect’s need to verbally explain meant the design didn’t accomplish its task. “In general, her view of architecture was that it was essentially an anonymous art — that the architect had his say in what he built, and that he had no right to resort to verbal elaborations,” Kastner said. Steilberg used his entry in La Vista to further elaborate on and praise his old friend, who by 1969 was 12 years dead and unable to berate him for his kind words. He noted her relentless sleep sched-
ule when she worked on the design and construction of Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. “Her capacity for work was incredible,” Steilberg wrote. “Many times I have seen her work at her drafting table from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., without pause for lunch; then take the 8 o ’clock train for San Luis, where she could get a lunch counter snack about 2 a.m.; then take a four-hour ride over rough roads to San Simeon to put in a full day on the job.” That tact was consistent throughout Morgan’s entire life.
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‘THE GIRL GIRL ON ON THE THE TRAIN’ TRAIN’ ‘THE G G R R
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Generally, I’m enthralled by mystery; it’s easily one of my favorite genres of film. The way a writer is able to pull all the elements from the story together to string the viewer along and lead into a satisfying conclusion is always fascinating to me. Some mysteries, like “Zodiac,” are truly gripping, the audience
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discovering the twists at the same pace as the characters. Then there are the likes of “The Girl on the Train,” based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins. This movie is not wholly incompetent and, like most mysteries, it at least has an intriguing build-up. However, so much goes wrong with its characters and plot that it’s impossible not to think it wasted what potential it had, keeping viewers from be-
ing fully immersed and invested in the story. The film stars Emily Blunt as Rachel, a recently divorced woman whose life nosedived after not being able to become pregnant, leading her to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Even after being fired from her job in New York City, she continues to ride the train there each day, envious of the happy and fulfilling lives of couples she sees in
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houses along the tracks. Rachel is especially envious of her ex-husband’s new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) and the young blonde Megan (Haley Bennett), the babysitter of Anna’s child. When she sees Megan with another man, a drunk and enraged Rachel confronts her in a tunnel only to black out. Afterwards, Rachel wakes up in her room with blood on her clothes and news that Megan has vanished, forcing Rachel to clear her own name. It’s easy to fault “The Girl on the Train” for doing almost nothing right with important elements, but the setup for the mystery isn’t the worst. The aftermath of Rachel blacking out and trying to process what happened with Megan in the tunnel is legitimately intriguing. However, the initial shock of the situation quickly wears off after the first few minutes when viewers are confronted with the grim reality that the main characters are some of the most unlikable people to wander onto the screen. Most of the first act before Megan’s disappearance tries to establish the personalities of the lead characters Rachel, Megan and Anna; this gets old really fast with Rachel monologuing for minutes on end. It’s somewhat of a “Gone Girl” situation, where none of the characters are really ones you’d want to hang out with. The difference between the films is that Nick and Amy from “Gone Girl” actually have interesting motivations that make you morbidly curious as to how far they’re willing to go to destroy each other’s lives. This is the most glaring issue with “The Girl on the Train.” I tried, but it’s truly not worth
the effort to become invested in someone like Rachel, a “sad woman,” as her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) describes her. The extent of her characterization is that she’s an alcoholic and very little else. Blunt certainly plays this role maniacally and realistically, but it’s not nearly enough. With a tragic past, the film tries desperately to make her sympathetic or remotely interesting, but there’s only so much a writer can do with a character such as her. In a mystery where there are very real stakes for the leads, there should be a reason to care about them. As it is, there’s very little reason to care for the fates of any of the lead characters. The side characters are also a problem the film faces. Rachel’s friend and roommate Cathy (Laura Prepon) acts as a calming force for her and had potential to be a likable character, but somewhere in the middle of the film she inexplicably disappears. This isn’t a plot point and it warrants no explanation or comment from other characters; it’s more like the screenwriter (Erin Cressida Wilson) forgot she existed. There also could’ve been some intrigue with Detective Riley (Allison Janney) working on the case at the same time as Rachel. Instead, Riley’s scenes only involve her confronting Rachel and calling her a bad person for supposedly killing Megan. Doesn’t she know Rachel’s actually a “sad” person? I don’t envy the position that Wilson was put in for writing. In addition to trying to balance poor characters, she creatively tries to keep the structure of the book where the main characters explain the events from their own perspectives.
Some of the scenes are out of chronological order, which is somewhat unique for a film, but it’s not hard to keep up with. However, many of these scenes fall flat. While some give insight into the characters’ pasts, the majority add nothing to the narrative. These scenes appear now and again, with some potential, but the only positive they provide is a brief reprieve from Rachel’s antics. As is typical of mysteries, there is a reveal before the climax. I know this is offensive to underwhelming reveals, but the twist of “The Girl on the Train” is the quintessential underwhelming reveal. It comes out of nowhere, but not in a good way. It’s not the completely devastating, Earth-shattering, “I am your father” type of reveal. Instead, the reveal comes off as a hamfisted way for the film to end under two hours. It tries to shock viewers, but the film writes itself into a corner by having no compelling way to reveal the villain. After the reveal, it just doesn’t get any better for “The Girl on the Train.” I wish I could say the climax at least redeems the film somewhat. Nope. It doesn’t. Rachel and Anna confront the villain in perhaps the least interesting way. Instead of having a cathartic and thrilling ending, the film stumbles its way into what is almost a comedic one, though that should be expected by this point. I guess Tom’s description of Rachel can also apply to me. I am now a “sad” man after investing almost two hours with no payoff. The only time I can say I enjoyed “The Girl on the Train” is when it ended, never to deal with these characters again.
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‘Cosi:’ The making of a cast — Part Four Sabrina Thompson @ Sabrinaswriting
The cast of “Cosi” rehearses together five days a week for three hours each day. All of this time spent together develops strong friendships within the cast, something that can be very helpful when performing a large-scale production. The more the actors get up close and personal in their real life, the more believable their connections will be onstage. “Cosi’s” cast has been working on the production for three weeks. The ensemble of 12 and two stage managers are a mixture of new performers and veterans of the craft. Every show has a different cast, yet it seems each member has managed to find the same sense of belonging. “Cosi” is theatre freshman Samantha Boyarsky’s debut performance with the Cal Poly Theatre Arts Department. She will be portraying the character of Maude, a quiet patient at the mental institution the play is set in. “Everyone has been super nice and supportive of one another,” Boyarsky said. “As these weeks have gone on we have become close.” Theatre senior Antonio Mata, who will play the silent and shy patient Henry, said meeting people he didn’t know and seeing old friends is what makes his nights at rehearsals so fun. The friendships that he has developed carry off-stage as well. “During the breaks, Sarah [and I], we’ll just randomly start dancing with each other. Or we’ll have a look and it will be really funny,” Mata said. What is it that allows for this group of people, some complete strangers, to form a bond like this in a matter of weeks? Theatre junior Sarah Dickerson, who will portray Ruth, a patient with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), said it was the vulnerability. “You immediately have to open up and be yourself,” Dick-
erson said. “I think that’s what allows people to feel OK being vulnerable, they’re showing me their true core, so I’m comfortable to do the same thing and I will not be judged; as in someone thinks I’m weird or strange. Because we are all kind of weird and strange in our own way.” In acting, vulnerability is important because when actors open up to each other, they are able to play with their characters more. They are able to delve deeper into the psyche of their character and develop a realistic representation of a person other than themselves.
You immediately have to open up and be yourself. I think that’s what allows people to feel OK being vulnerable. SARAH DICKERSON
In “Cosi,” it is important that the actors present the characters as they are, mentally unstable but often well-meaning. Without full expression from the actors, the full potential of each character’s range of emotion and expression cannot be reached. Helping the cast in their character journey is Director Al Schnupp. Schnupp has been giving the cast ways to express themselves through various exercises. These include having the actors answer questions as their character. These sorts of exercises encourage Schnupp’s
MATT LALANNE | MUSTANG NE WS GETTING COMFORTABLE | “Cosi” Director Al Schnupp encourages actors to express themselves through various exercises.
cast to express themselves in a raw and organic way. And when things don’t go perfectly, as they rarely do in theatre, Schnupp allows for the
actors to laugh about it, but reigns them back in and gets the scene back on track. “Al is an interesting guy. Working with him, you never
know what is going to happen,” said theatre sophomore Riley Clark, who will portray Lucy, the girlfriend of main character Lewis.
There are several weeks of rehearsals before the opening night of “Cosi.” The show will open Nov. 10 in Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre.
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| The cast of “Cosi” bonded through exploring their vulnerabilities. This allows each actor to delve deeper into the psyche of their character, making for a believable performance.
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Voter registration goes scoreless in 58th home game Brendan Abrams @ CPMustangNews
Brendan Abrams is a liberal arts and engineering studies junior and Mustang News columnist. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Mustang News editorial. A curious event in the digital world occurred during this election cycle. Facebook urged, in a seemingly nonpartisan way, that its users make their political voices heard. Facebook is not alone in this effort. Campaigns like Rock the Vote and celebrities like Stephen Colbert and Katy Perry all did their due diligence to make sure that anyone who isn’t registered feels compelled to do so. I should state that this is a good thing. We can all benefit from having a legislature that more fairly represents our nation. However, saying that the pop-culture voter registration efforts are nonpartisan is like eating pizza with a fork or actually knowing all the words to the Cal Poly fight song; it’s simply wrong. Calm down, democracy dogmatists. I’m not claiming the system is broken or that getting people to vote is unfair. It is clear, however, that those passionate about registration have an unambiguous partisan motive. For instance, greater voter turnout is believed by many to be necessary for liberal victories. But unbeknownst to many liberals, that’s not all there is to the story. So why are these left-lean-
ing people and organizations so focused on the quantity of voters? The typical assumption is that conservatives are less likely to forgo voting because they are older and/or
world have not played out that way. Though Republicans took fairly strong control of both the House and Senate, voters from both the liberal and conservative sides have turned out at comparable rates in almost every recent election year (both mid-term and presidential). This fact becomes more unsurprising when we liberals stop to consider that conservatives have also done their fair share of voter registration campaigning. If both sides try in seemingly nonpartisan ways to register more voters, neither one comes out on top. As a whole, registering voters does little to advantage any particular political party because the net effect is always goose egg for both sides. This makes the entire topic almost a moot point for anyone not concerned with the altruistic motive of getting people involved in democracy. We should not assign much value to the vote of a potential voter who is not motivated enough to get to the polls. Admittedly, that’s a bit of a ridiculous statement. But it’s true; it is more effective to give voters a motivation to vote than to annoy them until they give in. Our Republican-controlled congress is living, wheezing, proof of that. This election cycle, though novel and unexpected, has devolved to a point where the only real motivation to vote is to avoid a situation a little less terrible than the one they’re voting for. The only effective and meaningful way to im-
more fanatical about certain issues. Broadly speaking, this makes sense. The average age of a Republican-leaning voter is 50, as opposed to 47 for their democratic counterparts. According to the Census Bureau, citizens older than 45 have regularly been showing up to the polls at almost twice the rate of citizens under 29 in elections since 1986. Putting age aside, it is mostly obvious that certain key issues (guns and immigration, for example) elicit some very passionate responses from conservative groups. It would be easy to assume that conservatives who are vehemently against immigration or in favor of looser gun restrictions will show up to vote for the party which caters to them, while younger, less passionate liberal voters will stay home. But the events of the real
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Women’s golf finishes 12th at Harbottle Invitational Ty Schilling @ty_schilling106
The Cal Poly women’s golf team finished the Harbottle Invitational on Tuesday in Tacoma, Washington with a tournament-best 295 to lift themselves to 12th place overall. Junior Desiree Gillaspy with-
drew from the tournament following Monday’s second round. Cal Poly, coming off a strong finish at the Wyoming Cowgirl Intercollegiate, looked promising with her 2-under-par 70 following Monday’s results. Her reasons for withdrawing were undisclosed as of Tuesday night. Senior Sadie Strain and juniors
Sophie Bergland and Jamie Binns rounded out Tuesday’s scoring players. Bergland finished as the highest individual for Cal Poly, hitting a 232 aggregate which was good enough for 39th place. Binns finished one stroke behind Bergland at a 233 aggregate and tied for 46th. Strain finished with a score of 236, landing just
outside of the top 50 finishers. Sophomore Mallory Muehlbauer, the final golfer for the Mustangs, finished with an aggregate score of 243 after hitting a 79 on Tuesday. The Mustangs tied with Eastern Washington for 12th out of 15 schools in arguably the toughest invitational of their season,
as multiple Pac-12 teams participated in the invitational along with schools from the WCC and the Big West. The Mustangs finished three strokes ahead of Grand Canyon University and 24 strokes ahead of Montana. Pac-12 conference member Washington won the tournament with a total score of
880, three strokes ahead of the WCC’s BYU. Fellow Pac-12 competitor Oregon State finished third with 887. Cal Poly will finish its fall season Oct. 22-23 by hosting the Cal Poly Invitational. The invitational starts at 8 a.m. at the Cypress Ridge Golf Course in Arroyo Grande, California.
The Mustangs finished 12th, with a tournament-best 295.
MUSTANG NE WS FILE PHOTO DRIVING OUT THE PARK
| At arguably one of the toughest invitationals the Mustangs will attend this season, they tied with Eastern Washington for 12th place among schools from the WCC and the Big West.
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