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Caleb Nguyen

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – Cal Poly announced a head coaching change for its football team Sunday afternoon.

The university parted ways with head coach Paul Wulff after three seasons on the Cal Poly sidelines.

Cal Poly Director of Athletics Carter Henderson shared the following sentiment on Wulff and his tenure:

“I want to thank Coach Wulff for his years of service to Cal Poly both as an assistant and a head football coach. He represented the Mustangs well and was extremely dedicated to this program. I wish him the absolute best moving forward.”

The university, in conjunction with its announcement of Wulff’s departure, said a national search for a new head football coach is underway.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT). – Dos Pueblos High School cross country is celebrating the boys CIF-Southern Section Division 2 championship with a four point win over Hart (84-88).

With a school record 3 mile total combined time of 1:13:30 for 5 runners (Avg Time of 14:42 per man) and a spread of 27 seconds from first to fifth runner, Dos Pueblos came out on top of the podium at Mt. San Antonio College.

From head coach David Jackson:

“With cool temps in the low 50s, the Chargers took Race #1 with determination. Lead by a 1-2 punch from Owen Abbot and Phil Contakes we put ourselves in contention. We were positioned in 4th, 40 points behind Hart of Santa Clarita. With Linus Martin, Ashton Smedley, Oliver Saleh and Cullen Gully in a pack of their own, pushing the chase pack, our race for gold was on. We came through the two mile mark just 1 point behind. And in a final push for the Championship, we were 4 points ahead. With such a close margin of victory, we were feeling vindicated for all the hard work at he edge of the continent, up here at the top of the Southern Section. And, then we saw the merged results. We came out on top of the whole section. Such an accomplishment is exciting, and we still have the State Championship to go. So, we’ll savor the moment.”

The DP girls did not advance to the State final after finishing in 9th place out of 16 teams. The Chargers were led by Cate Bishop who helped DP finish three places higher than last year. She came in 24th overall individually with a time of 17:38.

The San Marcos girls cross country team qualified for next weekend’s CIF State Meet with a sixth place finish overall. Sofi Hernandez had a personal-best time of 17:46. Elsie Tuttle was close behind at 17:49 followed by Samara Shalhoub (18:12), Layla Llewellyn (18:17) and Autumn Richardson (18:25).

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Mike Klan

FULLERTON, Calif. (KEYT) – Following their Friday night victory over UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara Women’s Volleyball finalized their 2025 regular season today with a 3-0 shut out of Cal State Fullerton. The Gauchos exit their final weekend with a sweep to finish with a 14-4 Big West record.

FROM HEAD COACH MATT JONES”Today was a great way to end the regular season,” Jones said. “Got contributions from the whole team and continued our momentum heading into the conference tournament. We’re excited to keep competing with this group for as long as possible.”

HOW IT HAPPENEDFullerton led as far as 4-3 in the first, but their luck ended there. Santa Barbara commandeered the match and scored nine points in a row to make it 12-4. The Titans collected a few more points before the set was through, but the Gauchos added 13 points of their own to end it 25-13.

It wasn’t long before Santa Barbara pulled the lead in the second, getting ahead at 7-6. Fullerton managed to stay tighter with the Gauchos this time around, keeping largely within two points for the first portion of the set. Fullerton tied it at 10-10 and had a chance through the teens, but Santa Barbara closed it out with a six-point run that brought them from 19-16 to the necessary 25 points.

The third set favored the Titans, who led all the way through 17-16. Santa Barbara coordinated their comeback after 17-17 and only allowed one more Titan point to be made. The Gauchos scored eight of the last nine points in the match to come away 3-0 from the Titans for the second time this season.

With today’s win, the Gauchos are on a 25 match winning streak against Cal State Fullerton.

STAT RECAP

Gabi Martinez was up to her usual business of leading the Gauchos in kills, this time bagging 17. She hit an astounding .682, landing the 17 out of 22 attempts

In addition to her copious kills, Martinez picked up a double double with 12 digs

Kate Martin recorded a career-high in both digs and assists with 10 and four

Eva Travis hit .435, landing six kills off of 11 attempts

Michelle Zhao put up 26 assists, breaking 20 for the fifth time this season

Grace Wuischpard had a career-high three solo blocks

NEXT UPUC Santa Barbara Women’s Volleyball will attend the first round of the 2025 Outrigger Big West Championship on Wednesday, Nov. 26 in Long Beach, Calif.

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Mike Klan

IRVINE, Calif. (KEYT). -No. 3 seed UC Davis surged into The Big West Championship Final with a decisive 15–7 win over No. 2 seed UC Santa Barbara in the Big West Men’s Water Polo Semifinal round on Saturday afternoon at the Anteater Aquatics Complex.

UC Davis struck first and never trailed, punching in four goals in the opening period behind crisp passing and disciplined front-court execution. UCSB responded twice to stay within reach, but the Aggies’ early rhythm established a 4–2 lead after eight minutes.

The second frame featured another strong offensive push from UC Davis, which added four more goals to extend its advantage. Though UCSB generated three scores of its own, the Aggies maintained control on both ends of the pool, entering halftime ahead 8–5.

UC Davis tightened its defensive structure in the third, holding the Gauchos scoreless while continuing to dictate pace. The Aggies’ counterattack created consistent pressure, and goalkeeper Baxter Chelsom delivered key stops on the few quality looks UCSB produced.

The Aggies put the match out of reach in the fourth period with a six-goal explosion, showcasing a deep and balanced scoring attack. Oleg Shatskikh led UC Davis with four goals, while Andrew Hitchcock, Max Prokhin, and Thomas Marr each added two. Chelsom’s 11 saves anchored a defensive unit that allowed just two goals in the entire second half.

UCSB’s offense was paced by Danilo Dragovic and Charlie Johnson, who each found the net multiple times, but the Gauchos were unable to keep pace with UC Davis’ sustained pressure and scoring depth. Goalkeeper Levi Lentin finished with eight saves for UCSB.

With the victory, UC Davis advances to the Big West Championship final, positioning itself to compete for the conference crown on Sunday. The Aggies enter the title match riding a wave of strong defensive play and an attack that continues to fire on all cylinders.

FROM HEAD COACH WOLF WIGO”I really thought we were going to have a strong showing at this tournament and it’s unfortunate, but I think we impressed a lot of people, impressed ourselves, and we’re really looking forward to next year,” Wigo said. “We knew it was going to be a hard game. We beat those guys up at their pool and I think they kind of weren’t happy about it, so I was looking at this as a 50-50 game, where either team if can win if they play well. I thought we did a good job keeping in the game, I think it was 5-5, we had some really big plays, some good goals, and unfortunately after that our offense kind of dried and we made a few mistakes that you can’t make that led to some easier goals for them. I felt like in the fourth quarter, in the beginning, we were still in the game down three goals and really thought we were going to make a run and unfortunately didn’t execute on a couple of the opportunities that we had and we had to take some risks at the end so the score really isn’t indicative of how the game was, but we didn’t play our best game of the year and we needed to play a strong game to win that. Their goalie played way better than he did last time, so that was a big thing for Davis, and they played pretty solid and didn’t give us really any free goals, we had to earn everything.”

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Mike Klan

RENO, Nevada. (KEYT) – The Gauchos dropped their second game in a row, losing at Nevada 77-64.

UCSB was beaten in almost every statistical category including field goal percentage (48-40), free throws (UCSB:15-of-23; Nevada 26-of-30, rebounding (35-30) and in fast break points (26-6).

Corey Camper Jr. set a career-high with 27 points as the Wolf Pack(4-2) snapped a 2-game losing skid.

Nevada scored 24 points off of 15 UCSB turnovers.

UCSB (3-2) trailed 32-28 at the half but Nevada opened up the second half on a 13-4 run and controlled the rest of the game.

Miro Little led the Gauchos in scoring, finishing with 13 points, six rebounds and four assists. Hosana Kitenge added 12 points. Aidan Mahaney also had 10 points and four assists.

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Mike Klan

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) -Cal Poly football finished the 2025 season on high note Saturday night, taking down Eastern Washinton at home, 43-34.

The Mustangs (4-7, 2-6 Big Sky) totaled 500 yards of offense on the night, 341 of which in the air. Anthony Grigsby Jr. got his first start as a Mustang and made the most of it. He finished with 341 yards on 21-37 passing, three touchdowns and two interceptions. In his final collegiate game, wide receiver Logan Booher led the way with 126 yards and a touchdown. Tight end Alek Marshall and wide receiver Fidel Pitts also had receiving touchdowns. On the ground, running back Tyrei Washington had 99 yards and a touchdown.

Defensively, the Mustangs held the Eagles (5-7) to 87 rushing yards and came away with three interceptions. Linebackers Troy Bean and Mikey D’Amato as well as safety Jeremiah Bernard each had picks. Linebacker Kenny Olson led the way with 10 tackles.

Cal Poly couldn’t have scripted a better start to the game, on the second play of Eastern Washington’s opening drive, Mustang linebacker Troy Bean came up with an interception to give the Mustang offense the ball at EWU’s 32. One play later, Grigsby Jr. found wide receiver Logan Booher in the end zone for the touchdown to take a 7-0 lead in the first minute.

On Cal Poly’s second drive of the game, the Mustangs went 53 yards in 12 plays to score again. This time, it was senior defensive lineman Antonio Vakameilalo with a one yard run right up the middle into the end zone for his first career touchdown to go up 14-0. The Eagles got on the board midway through the first quarter following a fumble recovery by their defense that gave them the ball at the Mustang 22. Four plays later, they got into the end zone on a seven-yard run.

The Mustangs answered back with a big drive of their own. Grigsby connected with tight end Alek Marshall for a 54-yard touchdown reception to make it 21-7 with three minutes left in the first quarter. Following a 92-yard kickoff return by EWU, the Eagles quickly made it 21-14 after a one-yard touchdown run.

Cal Poly kicker Noah Serna knocked through a 32-yard field goal with 9:22 left in the first half to make it 24-14. Eastern Washington responded with a 10-play, 62-yard drive that resulted in a 12-yard touchdown pass to make it 24-21 with five minutes left in the half. Cal Poly finished the half strong with a 48-yard field goal by kicker Gianluca Dimauro to make it 27-21. However, Eastern Washington was able to close the half with a field goal as time expired to make it 27-24 at halftime.

With 8:09 left in the third quarter, EWU tied it up at 27 after making a 32-yard field goal. Cal Poly came back with a 44-yard field goal of its own a few minutes later to take the lead back, 30-27. The Eagles then scored with two minutes left in the third, a 13-yard touchdown run, to take a 34-30 lead.

The Mustangs opened the fourth quarter finishing off an 11-play, 75-yard drive with a touchdown of their own. Grigsby Jr. found wide receiver Fidel Pitts in the right corner of the end zone for a 16-yard touchdown to make it 37-34. Cal Poly extended its lead with a 33-yard touchdown run by Tyrei Washington to make it 43-34 with seven minutes left.

With two minutes left, the game was iced after Mustang safety Jeremiah Bernard came up with an interception.

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Jarrod Zinn

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – A senior project expo at Cal Poly on Friday unveiled a number of innovations including a portable carbon monoxide sensor.

This was a little more than your ordinary senior project.

A legacy foundation was established after the passing of a Cal Poly graduate and his girlfriend.

The foundation funded a senior design project in their honor.

Cal Poly computer science graduate Johnny Heathco and his girlfriend Abby Lutz were vacationing at a 5-star resort in Mexico during the summer of 2023 and passed away from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Courtesy: John Wesley Heathco Legacy Foundation

“My son and his girlfriend had a suite,” says Chuck Heathco, JWH Legacy Foundation’s co-founder. “They had carbon monoxide alarms, but they turned them off because they were beeping and they were annoying the guests.”

After establishing the John Wesley Heathco Legacy Foundation, Johnny’s parents approached the university, and adjunct Cal Poly professor Dennis Mikel in turn approached his students, adding the request to the roster of possible senior projects.

“We selected our team,” says Zeke Bukovansky, a fifth-year mechanical engineering student at Cal Poly. “We gathered and then chose our project based on what the team was interested in.”

Four students who now call themselves the Carbon Canaries stepped up, and they formally unveiled their new portable carbon monoxide detector here at the expo.

“That originally was derived from canaries that they would send in to the coal mine to make sure there was no carbon monoxide,” says Bukanovsky. “You know, if the canary didn’t come back here, then the mine was was dangerous and they would stop mining operations.”

The device is designed to attach to travel beverage tumblers, and emit an alarm when unhealthy co levels are detected.

“There are probably millions of people walking around right now being slowly poisoned that may be working in an office 8 hours a day that has a very low leak, no alarm,” says Heathco. “They have no idea other than maybe going home with a headache.”

Johnny’s father and co-creator of the legacy foundation says the device is currently in the midst of a patent process, but the prototype was displayed at the campus expo on Friday.

The foundation also supports the “Safe Stay Act” congressional legislation.

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John Palminteri

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Thanksgiving week has come a week early for many people.

The United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara County served about 1000 meals at its clubs with the final dinner Friday night in Goleta.

The meals are prepared at the Westside Club kitchen and delivered. This week meals have also been served already in Carpinteria, Lompoc, Westside Santa Barbara.

Each one is a hot turkey dinner with thick cuts of turkey, along with corn, stuffing, salad, dessert and a beverage.

Staff members, volunteers, members of the Rotary have all been involved in the set up, serving and clean up.

This is an annual tradition for the clubs and they do it prior to Thanksgiving week when many of the families are out of the area or have other plans.

“We look forward to this event every year to be able to celebrate our kids and our families, and to really to let them know that we are grateful for them,” said interim United Boys & Girls Club Director  Christie Rojo.

The need has been growing in all areas. “We’re super grateful to all of our donors who have donated to our Zero Hunger Program. We have an amazing food program team that works hard every day to really comfort food insecurity in our community. Now more than ever, we need to gather together around our families, around our children to make sure that they have nutritious meals every day,” she said.

Many of the kids in the program are also on the food programs at their schools that enable them to have nutritious food while on campus. This dinner extends that food security to them, their families and their neighbors thanks to support from financial donors small and large. “Unfortunately, we’re living in times where, we have people that are still, going to bed hungry every night. We really take that seriously. And it is our call to action to be able to feed our kids every day in our club.”

Also in the spirit of the season, Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara has had a food drive with non perishables. Flyers have been up and a video is on social media. The public has responded with many items in a large collection bin at the doorway.

Tiana Garcia is a Program Facilitator with Girls Inc. and says, ” they’ve really felt very passionate about helping the unhoused community. So we organized this food drive. They made fliers. They’ve been putting the fliers up around the community. “

Emme  Lelevier -Joseph said, “we were going to help, save the planet or help the homeless shelter. And we all agreed on helping the homeless shelter, because a bunch of us feel bad that the holidays coming up and nobody has any food to eat. So we decided to donate canned food to help them.”

.   Two of the organizers said they had a marketing plan too and it worked.

Emma Moseley  said when the posters were done, “we gave some to our classes at school.”

Garcia said, “we’re going to take it to the, women’s portion of the Santa Barbara Rescue mission. And we’re going to drop it off right before the holidays so that they can, you know, get a little nice meal for Thanksgiving. “

The drop off for the Rescue Mission will be Monday and the collection continues all weekend at the door of Girls Inc. where they may get a second box.

It will also include one other item.

Garcia said, “I definitely want to have the girls write a letter to them so they can see, like, where this all came from and how much they really care about the the whole community.”

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Dave Alley

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT)- The News Channel 12 Turkey Drive concluded on Thursday with generous outpouring of community support throughout the Central Coast.

The annual fundraiser supports clients at Good Samaritan Shelter and SLO Food Bank. Beginning on Oct. 20, 2025 and concluding on Nov. 20, its traditional grand finale featured generous support at in-person drop-off locations.

Beginning at 6:00 a.m. and running through 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, donations rolled during the 13-hour time period.

There were three collection sites this year, including the News Channel 3-12 Santa Maria office, Grocery Outlet Bargain Market in Lompoc and the SLO Food Bank headquarters San Luis Obispo.

Preliminary numbers show more than 400 turkeys were donated on the final day and approximately $35,000 was raised through financial contributions.

A final dollar amount raised won’t be known until early December when SLO Food Bank receives the total amount of Turkey Bucks sold at several participating local grocery stores.

Turkey Bucks will continue to be sold through month of November at California Fresh Market in Pismo Beach and San Luis Obispo and Grocery Outlet Bargain Market in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo and Los Osos.

While the drive may have officially ended, there is actually still time to donate. 

Click here to visit the official News Channel 12 Turkey Drive webpage.

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Patricia Martellotti

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – A Grinch-themed scavenger hunt kicks off in Santa Barbara.

The Granada Theatre hid free Grinch movie tickets inside six local businesses.

Theater representatives — along with the Grinch — are sharing clues to help families and shoppers track down the vouchers throughout the weekend.

The event aims to bring playful holiday spirit to the community ahead of December’s screening of The Grinch.

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