SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly senior wide receiver Dominique Johnson has been placed on the College Football Performance Awards 2010 Football Championship Subdivision Preseason Watch List. Johnson, who transferred to Cal Poly from UCLA in the summer of 2009, caught 43 passes for 741 yards and six touchdowns last season. He broke the school record for touchdown receptions in a game with five against South Dakota, catching 13 passes for 273 yards. Johnson was a...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Ernie Cooper, who played several positions on the Cal Poly football team from 2005-08, died Thursday at his Huntington Beach home. Cooper, who turned 25 on June 17, was found unresponsive by a friend and could not be revived. The cause is still to be determined. Cooper, a 2004 La Serna High School graduate, was recruited as a quarterback, moved to wide receiver and slotback in 2006 and 2007 and was a...

EDMONTON, Alberta -- Former Cal Poly linebacker Mark Restelli opened his second season with the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos on Sunday and recorded four tackles -- two on defense and the other two on special teams -- in a 25-10 loss to the British Columbia Lions. One of Restelli's tackles was a 13-yard sack of BC quarterback Casey Printers in the first quarter. Edmonton hosts Montreal next Sunday. A year ago with the Eskimos, Restelli ended up...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly has been presented an award for compiling the best Academic Progress Rate among the five football teams in the Great West Conference. The Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) has announced the inaugural recipients of the Academic Progress Rate (APR) Award. The APR Award will recognize one institution at each of the 14 FCS conferences that has the highest Academic Progress Rate (APR) score. In addition, the Association...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Former Cal Poly football player Ryan Shotwell has signed as a player/coach with the Sollerod Gold Diggers in the Danish American Football Federation. Shotwell, playing defensive tackle, recorded two sacks and an interception in the Gold Diggers' season-opening 27-9 victory over the Herlev Rebels in Copenhagen. The Gold Diggers opened fast and quickly, building a 14-0 lead in the first quarter and taking a 14-3 lead into the lockerroom at halftime. Shotwell...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Four touchdowns and a pair of long field goals helped the offense (Green) defeat the defense (White) 59-42 in Cal Poly’s annual Spring Game on Saturday afternoon at Alex G. Spanos Stadium. Fullback Jake Romanelli and quarterbacks Tony Smith and Andre Broadous all scored touchdowns on runs while Broadous also connected with Eric Gardley on a 60-yard touchdown pass. Senior Jake West, despite missing a pair of extra-point kicks, booted field goals...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly’s annual football Spring Game will be conducted Saturday afternoon at Alex G. Spanos Stadium, with kickoff slated for 1 p.m. The scrimmage is expected to last about 90 minutes with second-year head coach Tim Walsh and his coaching staff running his team through about 80 plays. Instead of splitting the squad into a pair of separate teams, the offense, dressed in green, will play the white-clad defense with a...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Cal Poly head football coach Tim Walsh has too many quarterbacks and not enough cornerbacks. Six Mustang signal callers took snaps during a 30-play scrimmage Saturday morning on the upper artificial-turf field of the Cal Poly Sports Complex. “This scrimmage helps us find out exactly where those guys fit,” said Walsh, “especially for some of them to go against first-, second- and third-string defenses. We tried to give the quarterbacks an equal...