San Jose, Calif. - The non-conference baseball game between San Jose State University and Oregon Institute of Technology, set for a 6:00 p.m. start at San Jose Municipal Stadium on Monday, March 2, has been cancelled due to rain, as announced by Spartan head coach Sam Piraro. The game against the Hustlin’ Owls of Klamath Falls, Ore., will not be rescheduled.

This is now the Spartans’ third game affected by rain already in the early going, and second in a row after Sunday afternoon’s series finale with South Bay rival Santa Clara was washed out. The make-up date for that contest is now set for Wednesday night, April 29, at Municipal Stadium, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

The previous rain-out at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., last Tuesday, February 24, is also expected to be rescheduled for later in the season, but no date has been agreed upon yet.

As of 2:45 p.m. on Monday, March 2, no official decision has been made regarding the Spartans’ home game against Cal Poly on Tuesday night, March 3. The contest against the equally-red-hot Mustangs is still scheduled for a 6:00 p.m. first pitch inside Muni, pending further rain activity.

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 a pair of national polls on Monday morning, March 2, at No. 17 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper rankings, and No. 25 in the Baseball America Top 25.

Tuesday’s game, if played, is expected to feature a starting pitching match-up between San Jose State senior right-hander Scott Sobczak (1-0, 1.80 ERA) and freshman left-hander Kyle Anderson for Cal Poly. Anderson, out of Aptos (Calif.) High School, would be making his collegiate debut.