I think Cal football's academic performance proved to be the end for Telford.

They play CETYS from Mexico and Simon Fraser from Canada. Nothing wrong with a little international flavor to your college education.

Women's soccer lost today, 1-0. Last year Slack women scored 2.5 Causeway points all year. They already have 10 this year. Slack didn't have 10 points last year between the men and women until April.

Next up appears to be cross country on Sept. 30. EDIT: Cross Country points are determined at the NCAA West Regionals, to be held this year on November 10th in Seattle. Good thing. We split the Aggie Open on September 2 with Sac winning the men's and UCD winning the women's. They will also compete at the Capitol Cross Challenge in Sacramento on September 30 but that does not count in the Causeway Cup competition.

Next Causeway Cup event appears to be men's soccer. Because Sac is part of the Big West for men's soccer the Ags and Hornets will play twice. October 14 @ Sac and October 29 in Davis.

Only other fall event is football at Sacramento on November 18th.

University of the Incarnate Word from San Antonio, TX, beginning their first full-on season in D-1 (FCS-Southland Conference) . Went 3-8 last year. Currently 0-2 after traveling to Fresno State (66-0 loss) and Slack (56-22 loss) in the last two weeks.

When people ask me why UCD left D-II I always begin with "DII left UCD." Not entirely true, of course; UCD was growing faster than D-II, but also D-II and small college football were dying in the West. Money in general, travel costs particularly in light of the distance between schools in the west.....

HSU and Azusa Pacific are affiliated football-only members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Along with Central Washington, Western Oregon and Simon Fraser (of Canada) they are the sum and substance of the football part of the GNAC. To get a season they play each other conference opponent home and away and then scramble for games. HSU started with an "exhibition" game against CETYS Universidad of Tijuana, MX.

[Insert Trump/Wall joke here]

Way, way back, Humboldt State was a small college power. According to legend they did well because players found nice jobs in the lumber industry. Those days are gone. I guess the current cash crop in Redwood Country doesn't fill the void.

Water polo got off to a bad start in Berkeley, falling behind 4-0 before getting a score. Final was 15-10, Cal. San Jose State in the home opener this weekend.

Last year all the Hornet women could manage in Causeway Cup competition was tie in soccer. The Hornet women's last win over Davis was in softball in March of 2016.

The Causeway Cup pages have not been updated for this season, but I THINK the next competition is women's soccer, at Davis, next Monday.

Went 3-1 at the Triton Invitational with loss to #8 Long Beach State followed by victories over Air Force, #13 UCI and #12 UCSD. Tough one tonight at they travel to always powerful and defending NCAA champ Cal.

(Somewhere somehow sometime someplace someone will say the university should not take money generated by big oil.)

Tell my kids. I'm usually not correct until sometime after Labor Day.

[ Psst: I think that's the ACC/BIg Ten (14) or the SEC/Big 12 (10). ]

http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nba/sacramento-kings/article151321302.html

Great year for the Ags in the Causeway Cup Competition. (If points were still allotted like they used to be, with 10 points each for football, volleyball and men's and women's basketball, it would have been 82.5 points and a 70 point margin.)

Finals:
Men: Notre Dame College 40, UCD 20
Women: UCD 27, Notre Dame College 19.

In Women's D-1, the equivalent of Men's D-1AA, UCD defeated Central Florida in one semi-final today while Notre Dame College defeated Stanford in the other. UCD women will meet Notre Dame College women Saturday for the D1 Spring Championship.

That means UCD will play Notre Dame College in both the Men's D1AA final and the Women's D1 Spring Final, both games to be played at the campus of Life College. Go Ags! Beat the Falcons, twice!

So the 2016 Causeway Cup comes to an end with the track teams splitting a dual meet. The women won, 110-81, and the men lost, 102-89.

Final overall points: UCD 65, CSUS 15.

I referenced a snarky thought earlier....and as luck would have it, my uncharitable thought has come back to bite me, even though it had never been uttered until now. That thought was that not only did the Ags dominate, but (until Sac won the men's track,) the Hornets had not even won a single sport outright. The women tied in soccer and the men split in soccer, golf and baseball.

I have another snarky observation, but don't want to jinx the track team, so I will keep it to myself for now.

Aggie men's golf finished at El Macero in 4th place, 17 strokes ahead of 9th place Slack. Ben Corfee, who grew up next to the El Macero course, was the top overall individual.

Causeway Cup points now at 60-10 with men's and women's track in two weeks.