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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Cal Poly’s Tiffany Gummow scored her team-leading fifth goal of the season in the 71st minute in leading the Cal Poly women’s soccer team to a Big West Conference regular season title and a 2-0 win over UC Santa Barbara in the regular season finale for both teams.

With the win Cal Poly earns the right to host the Big West semi-final on Thursday and will play the No. 4 seed UC Irvine, Nov. 5th and the final, on Nov. 8th if they advance. While UCSB earns the third seed and will travel to Cal State Northridge, No. 2 seed, for the other BWC semi-final.

With the win Cal Poly concludes the regular season with a 13-5-0 record and a 7-1 mark in conference play while UC Santa Barbara falls to 8-9-2 and 5-2-1 in the BWC.

For Cal Poly it was the team’s sixth regular season Big West Championship (1997, ’99, 2000, ’02 and ’03)..

Gummow’s game winner came after she beat a UCSB defender and fired the ball into the left side of the net. Gummow received the ball from Afton Thulin who lofted a cross from the right side.

The Mustangs looked to add to its lead with just under four minutes remaining when Morgan Miller fired a uncontested ball from 20 yards out with UCSB’s Tammy Lenham making the stop.

Kristina Condon-Shirwood put the Mustangs up 2-0 with her second goal of the season when she fired a shot off a free kick from just outside the goal box into the top left side of the net. Condon-Shirwood’s goal came after Bianca Burright was brought down trying to beat a UCSB defender.

UC Santa Barbara outshot the Mustangs 24-13 while both teams had six shots on goal. UCSB was whistled for just one more foul (10-9) while the Gauchos had nine corners compared to two for the Mustangs.

Coral Hoover earned her 10th shutout of the season when she made six saves and improved her overall record to 13-2-0. Lenham took the loss, making four saves for the Gauchos.

To open the game, Cal Poly had its first scoring chance when Julie McKee fed Morgan Miller on a cross, but was defected by a Gaucho defender.

Eight minutes into the game the Mustangs took the games first corner kick. Kaleena Andruss placed the ball perfectly in front of the goal, but no Mustang was able to get a header on it and the attempted cleared ball was picked off by Shandon Rovetta who put a shot wide left.

UCSB’s Kailyn Kugler, responded on the next possession, splitting two Cal Poly defenders, driving for the goal, but her shot from 15 yards out went wide left.

In the 25th minute Jacqui Simon took a shot from 15 yards out but Julieanne Grinstead blocked it only to have Kugler fire a second shot from about the same distance with Grinstead making a second block.

Two minutes later Cal Poly had the advantage in numbers when a cross by Andruss to the far corner of the box to Miller, but a slide tackle by a UCSB defender disrupted Milller’s shot and it went wide.

The second half opened with Burright beating two defenders with footwork and firing a shot from 15 yards out with Lenham making the save.

UCSB responded with Katy Roby, from just out side the penalty box, firing a shot with Hoover making a diving save.

In the 65th minute Gummow hit a shot that most thought would find the net but it defected off the top of the crossbar.

UCSB’s Alexa Stringler pulled down Miller when she had the opportunity for a breakaway and was whistled for a yellow card in the 68th minute. But the resulting free kick by Kristina Condon-Sherwood went high from 40 yards out.

The Mustangs enter the BWC semi-final game on a seven game win streak and have won 11 of the last 12 games.