Cal Night at the Giants Game, Senior Day, some Bear news, and more!

Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets! In this weekly write up, we try our best to cover all things Cal, Berkeley, Bearkeley UC Berkeley, University of Cal Berkeley, University of Berkeley at Cal, BerkeleyInspire, and California Berkeley University that happened more or less in the last week! Let’s dig in!

This past Friday, the San Francisco Giants held Cal Day at “It’s Still AT&T Park To Me” Oracle Park against Marcus Semien and the Texas Rangers. Cal Band and Dance Team held a rally at China Basin Park. Ron Rivera and Chancellor Lyons held a panel with fans before the game. Jim Knowlton was present. Cal Band played the National Anthem. Chancellor Lyons threw a high strike first pitch. Cal Women’s Basketball lead with the “Play Ball!” Watch the recap video of it all below!

Cal Band also put together a nice video of their time around the park!

Aaaaaand we won’t talk about that blown call to end the game, but sounds like a great time! Go Bears!

It was Senior Day this past weekend for Cal Softball up at the soon-to-be-improved Levine-Frick Field. Congrats to seniors Mika Lee, Acacia Anders, Anna Reimers, and Annabel Teperson!

Cal Football is crowdfunding some monies for Ron Rivera and Justin Wilcox to supe up the car that is Cal Football (after all Ron has the keys now!) They already passed the goal, but every dollar counts! We blew through the goal and others have stepped up! The match is now an additional $500,000 for Cal Football, meaning that we have another shot at raising $2 Million dollars (THROUGH TAX DEDUCTIBLE MEANS) for Cal Football in 1 week! Get to it!

Someone tried to make Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania Bear Territory, but the politest bear I’ve ever met was shown the gate in what is probably one of the wildest bear encounter videos I’ve ever seen. He’ll need some polishing on aggressiveness but I still think he’ll help out on the defensive line and get a few snaps next year.

• Beach Volleyball beat Grand Canyon, lost to UCLA, and then beat Grand Canyon again, but lost to USC in the inaugural MPSF Championship

• Men’s Golf finished Day 1 in 6th place in the ACC Championship and improved to tie for 4th place on Day 2, and fell back to a tie for 6th place on Day 3 before falling to Florida State in the ACC Quarterfinals

• Women’s Water Polo beat San Jose State, narrowly lost to UCLA, and beat USC in the Third Place Game of the MPSF Championships

• Softball went 1-2 against Virginia Tech (3-11, 0-9, 4-0) including this absolute moonshot

• Baseball got swept by Notre Dame (1-8, 0-10, 5-6) and lost to USF (9-10)

• Track and Field competed in the Payton Jordan Invitational (Day 1)

• Men’s and Women’s Rowing both lost in the Cal-UW Dual Meet

• NBA

  • Jaylen Brown and the Celtics lead the Orlando Magic in the first round of the NBA Playoffs in the Eastern Conference –

  • Jaylon Tyson and the Cavaliers swept the Miami heat in the first round of the NBA Playoffs in the Eastern Conference. They’ll await the winner of the Pacers/Bucks series.

  • Jason Kidd and the Mavericks just missed the playoffs, but Jason decided to become a part owner of Everton. He joins Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, and Manchester United.

• NFL

• Men’s and Women’s Tennis compete in the First/Second Rounds & Round of 16 in the NCAA Championships (5/2-5/11)

• Beach Volleyball plays #7 Texas in the NCAA Championship (5/2)

• Softball starts a three game series against Syracuse (5/2, 5/3, 5/4)

• Men’s and Women’s Rowing competes against Stanford in the Big Row (5/3)

• Track and Field take on Stanford in the Big Meet (5/3)

• Rugby takes on Life University in the 2025 D1A National Collegiate Championships (5/3)

• Women’s Golf competes in the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional (5/5-5/7)

• Baseball plays at Pacific (5/6)

Once again, we find ourselves at the end of Golden Nuggets, but fret not dear friends, for I shall return next week with more great Cal content for you. In the meantime, let me know what I forgot in the comments! Now to go find some boba…