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CalCal Poly Athletics Communications Poly • (805) 756-6550 ph • (805) 756-7255Football fax • www.GoPoly.com • twitter.com/cpmustangs Senior wide receiver J.J. Koski already has a third of last Cal Poly year’s reception total in just two games this fall, catching 2019 Football Scoreboard five balls versus San Diego Record: 1-1 Home: 1-0 Away: 0-1 Big Sky: 0-0 (two for touchdowns) in the Date Opponent Time/Score August 31 season opener and Aug. 31 $U. SAN DIEGO 52-34 W six more at Weber State last Sept. 7 at Weber State (KJZZ) 24-41 L week. Koski moved past the Sept. 14 at Oregon State (Pac-12 Oregon) 1:15 p.m. 100-reception mark for his Sept. 21 Bye career last week and now has Sept. 28 *at Southern Utah 5:05 p.m. 101 career catches for 1,959 Oct. 5 *=MONTANA STATE (SWX) 5:05 p.m. yards and 14 touchdowns. The Oct. 12 *#at UC Davis (Eleven Sports) 4:05 p.m. San Ramon Valley High School Oct. 19 *%NORTH DAKOTA 5:05 p.m. graduate is No. 8 in career Oct. 26 *&SACRAMENTO STATE 5:05 p.m. receiving yards and No. 9 in Nov. 2 *at Idaho 2:05 p.m. receiving touchdowns at Cal Nov. 9 Bye Poly and needs five catches to Nov. 16 *^+EASTERN WASHINGTON 5:05 p.m. move into the top 10 for career Nov. 23 *at Northern Colorado 11:05 a.m. receptions. $Youth Day &Mustang Family Weekend Photo by Matt Brown ^Homecoming/Senior Night %Blackout Game #Battle for the Golden Horseshoe +Hats Off to Heroes =Hall of Fame Game Sept. 9, 2019 *Big Sky game All Times Pacific Cal Poly to Visit Pac-12 Athletic Media Relations Mott Athletics Center, Room 201 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Member Oregon State on Saturday Fax: (805) 756-7255 Mustangs (1-1) Last Played a Pac-12 School in 2015 (Arizona State); Press Box: (805) 756-6739 Beavers (0-2) Fall to Oklahoma State and Hawai’i in First Two Weeks Website: GoPoly.com Cal Poly (1-1, 0-0 Big Sky), which followed its season-opening 52-34 win over San Diego with a 41-24 setback at Weber Twitter: Twitter.com/CPMustangs State last week, plays the second of three consecutive road games Saturday afternoon, visiting Pac-12 Conference mem- Facebook: Facebook.com/CalPolyMustangs ber Oregon State (0-2, 0-0 Pac-12) at Reser Stadium (cap.: 43,154) in Corvallis, Oregon. Kickoff is set for 1:15 p.m. PDT and the game will be broadcast live on ESPN Radio 1280 AM and 101.7 FM with Chris Eric Burdick -- Football Contact Sylvester (play-by-play) and Vernon (Veejay) Huskey (analyst). Pregame show starts at 12:30 p.m. The game also will be Office: . .(805) 756-6550 televised on Pac-12 Oregon with Jim Watson (play-by-play) and Jordan Kent (analyst) and streamed on the Pac-12 Now . .(805) 756-6531 app. Links for audio and video streams as well as live stats are available on the football schedule page at Cell: . .(805) 550-3427 www.GoPoly.com. E-mail: . [email protected] Cal Poly racked up 607 yards of total offense in the win over San Diego, led by redshirt freshman Jalen Hamler and sophomore fullback Duy Tran-Sampson. In his first game in a Mustang uniform, Hamler passed for 221 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 96 yards and two more scores en route to Cal Poly Quick Facts: ROOT SPORTS Big Sky Offensive Player of the Week honors. Tran- Location: San Luis Obispo, CA Sampson, who had just one carry for four yards a year ago, sprinted Enrollment: 21,812 (Fall 2018) 87 yards on his first carry of 2019 for a touchdown and finished with President: Jeffrey D. Armstrong 172 yards and two scores, averaging 11.5 yards per carry. Athletics Director: Don Oberhelman Last week in Ogden, Utah, the Mustangs were held to 164 rushing Stadium: Alex G. Spanos Stadium Cal Poly (1-1) yards and had the ball for just 24 minutes, 45 seconds in their fourth (Capacity: 11,075) straight loss to Weber State. Hamler completed 11 of 14 passes for Nickname: Mustangs at Oregon State (0-2) 182 yards and rushed for 53 yards and one touchdown, a 47-yard Saturday, Sept. 14, 1:15 p.m. PDT run. Lepi Lataimua ran 50 yards for a score and Brandon Davis Colors: Forest Green & Gold Reser Stadium (43,154) recovered a blocked Wildcat punt in the end zone for a touchdown. Affiliation: NCAA Division I FCS Radio: ESPN (1280 am), 12:30 p.m. Oregon State dropped its opener at home to Oklahoma State, 52- Conference: Big Sky Television: Pac-12 Oregon 36, and traveled to Honolulu last week, falling 31-28 as Hawaii’s 2018 Record: 5-6 (4-4, Tie-Sixth in Big Sky) Internet: Audio -- www.GoPoly.com Ryan Meskell kicked a 28-yard field goal with 2:01 remaining to snap (NCAA Division I FCS Quarterfinalist in 2005) Video -- www.GoPoly.com (Pac-12.com) a 28-28 tie. The Beavers rushed for 263 yards, led by Jermar (NCAA Division I FCS First Round in 2008, 2016) Live Stats -- www.GoPoly.com Jefferson with 183 yards and one touchdown. Sixth-year senior quar- (NCAA Division I FCS Second Round in 2012) terback Jake Luton completed 15 of 32 passes for 169 yards and one score and Isaiah Hodgins caught seven passes for 96 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown catch. Cal Poly and Oregon State are meeting for the first time Saturday. Cal Poly’s only other game against an active Pac- THE TIM WALSH SHOW 12 school was against Arizona State in 2015, falling 35-21. The game was tied at 21-21 with eight minutes remaining The Tim Walsh Show will air at 6 p.m. on before the Sun Devils scored twice to pull away. The Mustangs, who play at Cal in 2020, played Arizona State three times ESPN Radio 1280 on Tuesdays during the before the Sun Devils became a Pac-12 member in 1978 and also played Arizona once, back in 1945. week of home games at various locations Oregon State returned 49 lettermen, including 19 starters (seven on offense, nine on defense, three on special teams) throughout San Luis Obispo County. from last year’s squad which finished 2-10 overall and 1-8 for sixth place in the Pac-12 North standings. Top returnees include Jefferson, a First-Team Freshman All-American by The Athletic, 247Sports, ESPN, the FWAA Live Radio Broadcast and USA Today after finishing with seven 100-yard games, including two of 200 or more yards. His 254-yard outing at Chris Sylvester (PbP) Arizona State is the second-best single-game total in Oregon State history and his 1,380 yards for the season is a Beaver Veejay Huskey (Color) Pregame Show: 12:30 p.m. single-season record and ninth nationally for the 2018 season (first among freshmen). He scored four touchdowns in a (Continued on Page 8) Cal Poly Record Book Update Mustang Notes Game PRESEASON HONORS: A total of six Mustangs were named to Phil Steele's 2019 Big Sky Rushing Yards Conference preseason teams, led by junior linebacker Matt Shotwell on the first unit. Senior J.J. 1. Craig Young, 1996 (Saint Mary's) . .283 2. Louis Jackson, 1978 (Portland State) . .267 Koski was named to the second unit twice — as a wide receiver and punt return specialist. Senior 3. Paul Dickens, 1979 (Portland State) . 266 offensive lineman Tyler Whisenhunt and senior safety Kitu Humphrey also landed on the second 4. Joe Protheroe, 2018 (Idaho State) . .260 11. Joe Protheroe, 2018 (Brown) . .228 team while senior linebacker Nik Navarro and senior offensive lineman Paul Trujillo-Langdon 17. Joe Protheroe, 2016 (South Dakota State) . .217 were named to the third team. Koski and Humphrey represented Cal Poly at the Big Sky Summer 17. Joe Protheroe, 2018 (Northern Arizona) . .217 19. Joe Protheroe, 2018 (Montana State) . .215 Football Kickoff in mid-July in Spokane, Wash. Passing Yards 1. Seth Burford, 2000 (Northern Iowa) . 566 MUSTANGS 12-14 IN SEASON OPENERS: Since beginning play in Division I FCS in 1994, Cal 2. Jonathan Dally, 2007 (Idaho State) . .453 Poly has won 11 of 25 season openers, including nine of the last 16. A losing streak of five was 3. David Lafferty, 1990 (Cal St. Hayward) . .421 snapped 15 years ago at Texas-El Paso, 34-13. The Mustangs beat Humboldt State 42-7 in the Receiving Yards 2004 opener and 23-17 in 2010, Fort Lewis 44-0 in the 2006 opener, San Diego State 29-27 in the 1. Kassim Osgood, 2000 (Northern Iowa) . 376 2. Chris Thomas, 1991 (Sacramento St.) . 334 2008 opener, Sacramento State 38-19 in the 2009 lidlifter, the University of San Diego 41-14 in the 3. Ramses Barden, 2007 (Idaho State) . 268 2012 opener and 38-16 in 2013 and Montana 20-19 in the initial 2015 contest. New Mexico State Receptions beat the Mustangs 28-10 in the 2014 opener while Nevada earned a 30-27 overtime win in 2016, 1. Kassim Osgood, 2000 (Northern Iowa) . .17 Colgate posted a 20-14 triumph in 2017 and North Dakota State bested the Mustangs 49-3 in 2018. 2. Kassim Osgood, 2000 (Hofstra) . 15 Tim Walsh is 6-5 in season openers, snapping a three-game losing streak with a 52-34 win over 3.