Box score Fifth-year senior Naomi Washington capped off what might be her Walter Pyramid finale in fitting fashion and left with a milestone Saturday night. Washington hammered a match-high 22 kills — including the 1,000th of her career — to guide the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team to a[Read More…]

Box score After dropping a four-set decision to Texas Christian University earlier in the day, Long Beach State women’s volleyball head coach Brian Gimmillaro spent an hour and a half talking to his team in the locker room. He emerged with the decision to rest four of his starters for[Read More…]

Box score Call it a Thanksgiving hangover, or complacency from having already secured a Big West Conference title and an NCAA bid, but the 49er women’s volleyball team looked out of it Friday afternoon at the Walter Pyramid. Long Beach State (19-8) dropped a four-set decision to Texas Christian University,[Read More…]

Box score The Big West Conference women’s volleyball championship match Saturday night was much like Long Beach State’s entire conference slate — a rollercoaster. Fifth-year senior Naomi Washington nailed down the final two exclamation points of an intense, five-set thriller to give the 49ers their second consecutive Big West title[Read More…]

Box score The race for the Big West Conference women’s volleyball championship is now down to two teams after Friday night’s action. Long Beach State moved a step closer to the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a sweep over UC Riverside at the Walter Pyramid. The 49ers[Read More…]

The math is simple for Long Beach State’s women’s volleyball team: A win Friday plus a win Saturday equals the school’s 10th Big West Conference championship. Two wins will give the 49ers’ back-to-back Big West titles and the conference’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament, which would be the program’s[Read More…]