BAKERSFIELD, Calif. \u2014 During head coach Bernardo Silva’s return to Cal State Bakersfield for the first time since taking over the Mustangs, Cal Poly (5-5-5, 2-2-3) played to a 0-0 draw against the Roadrunners (2-12-2, 1-5-1) on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
It was Cal Poly’s second scoreless draw this season, the first coming against Cal in Berkeley at the beginning of September. The result keeps Cal Poly in sixth place, now tied with Long Beach State (8-3-5, 2-2-3) for the final spot in the Big West Championship field.<\/p>\n
Cal Poly kept the pressure on in the first half, outshooting the Roadrunners 6-2 but unable to find the back of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mustangs had two chances to score late in the first half. In the 38th minute, Annika Smith received a feed from Kammy MacLennan at the penalty spot, but her shot was turned away, and Zoe Minnery’s attempt on the rebound hit the post and bounced out of danger.<\/p>\n
Just a minute later, Miah Thomas’ left-footed shot found the gloves of the Roadrunners goalkeeper, and neither team could find another chance for the remainder of the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Searching for the winner in the 87th minute, Mya Clarke got on the end of a pinpoint cross off a free kick, but her header took a deflection off a defender and was saved.<\/p>\n
Shannon Porubski’s 32nd consecutive start in net saw her defense completely wall off the Roadrunners attack, allowing no shots on goal as a defensive unit for the first time this season. Only one of Bakersfield’s shots came from inside the box.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs return home on Wednesday, hosting Blue-Green rivals UC Santa Barbara at 6 p.m. for the final regular-season meeting as Big West foes, with the Gauchos heading to the WCC next season. Cal Poly also hosts UC Irvine later that week at 1 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. \u2014 During head coach Bernardo Silva’s return to Cal State Bakersfield for the first time since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-499902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}