San Jose, Calif. - The non-conference baseball game between San Jose State University and 17th-ranked Cal Poly, set for a 6:00 p.m. first pitch at San Jose Municipal Stadium on Tuesday, March 3, has been postponed due to rain. Spartan head coach Sam Piraro has announced that the game has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 11, with an identical 6:00 p.m. start time inside Muni.

This is now the Spartans’ fourth game affected by rain already this season, and the third day in a row in which they have been unable to take the field and attempt to extend their win streak to seven games. Sunday afternoon’s series finale with South Bay rival Santa Clara was washed out, with the make-up date for that contest now set for Wednesday night, April 29, at Municipal Stadium, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

Monday night’s meeting with Oregon Tech was cancelled. San Jose State will not play the Hustlin’ Owls this season, but will still attempt to schedule another game to get back to their full 59-game allotment for 2009.

The previous rain-out, at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., last Tuesday, February 24, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, April 15, with a 3:00 p.m. first pitch at Louis Guisto Field.

San Jose State is off to a 6-0 start, its best since beginning the 1997 campaign with eight successive victories. Piraro’s Spartans won each of the first two games of their annual showdown with Santa Clara (2-4), 5-4 at Muni on Friday night, February 27, and 10-7 at Schott Stadium on Saturday, February 28, to clinch the season series. When the finale is made up on April 29, they will look for a first three-game season sweep over Santa Clara since 2003.

Cal Poly of the Big West Conference and San Luis Obispo, Calif., is 6-1, and like the Spartans, on a six-game win streak. The Mustangs dropped their season opener at home to then-third-ranked Rice, before sweeping a doubleheader over the Owls the next day, winning at 2008 national champion Fresno State in their road debut, and sweeping a three-game home set with Sacramento State this past weekend. Cal Poly entered several national polls on Monday morning, March 2, as high as at No. 17 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper rankings, and including No. 25 in the Baseball America Top 25. With Tuesday night’s game postponed, the Mustangs will next board a plane on Thursday morning, March 5, bound for Houston, Texas, to take on the Houston Cougars in a three-game series this weekend. After returning late Sunday night, March 8, they will continue an eight-game road stretch at Pepperdine on Tuesday, March 10, before traveling north to face the Spartans.

San Jose State now looks ahead to the weekend as well, for a three-game set with another Big West squad, the University of the Pacific. The Tigers, coached by former Stanford and Major League Baseball player Ed Sprague, are currently 3-4, with all three victories coming against nationally-ranked teams away from home. The Spartans and Tigers are scheduled for a 5:35 p.m. first pitch in Pacific’s home opener at Klein Family Field in Stockton, Calif., on Friday, March 6. They will follow that up with a 1:00 p.m. contest in Stockton on Saturday, March 7, before concluding the series with another 1:00 p.m. game at San Jose Municipal Stadium on Sunday, March 8.

The Spartans then play host to area rival University of San Francisco on Tuesday, March 10, at 6:00 p.m. at Muni, before welcoming the Cal Poly Mustangs the next night, and departing by bus the following day on Thursday, March 12, for a three-game weekend series at Cal State Northridge, also of the Big West.