Caitlin Ledoux, Ashley Lee and Jocelyn Neely were three of eight players named to the USA Volleyball National Beach Training Team for the Junior (Under-21) World Championships. The team was selected from a pool of 177 players and will be trimmed to four by mid-July. Ledoux and Neely, both sophomores,[Read More…]
Men’s Volleyball
Read between the lines
Long Beach State interim men’s volleyball head coach Andy Read lives a double life. One revolves around volleyball nets and scoreboards; the other is a world of lab coats and goggles. Coaching volleyball with college athletes and teaching physical science to high school students are one in the same for[Read More…]
Sports Picks: Bittner, Watten named All-Americans
A pair of Long Beach State men’s volleyball players were named All-Americans by the American Volleyball Coaches Association on Monday. Junior opposite Dean Bittner was tabbed a first-team honoree while senior libero Dustin Watten earned second-team honors. Bittner led the 49ers in aces (42) and kills, which he also ranked[Read More…]
Men’s volleyball season ended by Pepperdine – again
MALIBU — Much like last season, the Pepperdine Waves were just too much for the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team to prolong its postseason Saturday night. The No. 2-seeded Waves ended the No. 7 49ers’ season in similar fashion with a 30-28, 30-25, 23-30, 30-27 victory in the quarterfinals[Read More…]
Sports Picks: Dirtbags sweep Pacific
Baseball LBSU sweeps Pacific The Dirtbags (20-19, 7-5 Big West Conference) completed the series sweep with a 10-3 win Sunday over the Pacific Tigers (16-22, 7-8 Big West). Down two in the third, the Dirtbags scored four runs and captured the lead for good. Devin Lohman and TJ Mittelstaedt each[Read More…]
Men’s volleyball draws familiar MPSF foe
Head coach Alan Knipe won’t need much time to scout the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team’s first-round Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament opponent. The No. 7-seeded 49ers will travel to Malibu to face the No. 2 Pepperdine Waves — the defending MPSF champions — at Firestone Fieldhouse Saturday night.[Read More…]
Sports Picks: 3 track athletes reach NCAA qualifying marks
Track and field NCAA qualifying marks reached Three ‘Niner athletes set NCAA West Regional qualifying marks at the meet. Junior Colin Dunbar set an NCAA Regional qualifying mark in the hammer throw with a distance of 190-10. Senior Patrick Smith set a personal-record 203-03 in the javelin. Junior Kenneth Medwood[Read More…]
LBSU clinches MPSF tournament berth in upset
The 49er senior trio of Dustin Watten, Luke Shea and Daniel Fabry ended their home careers at the Walter Pyramid with a big victory over the third-ranked Cal State Northridge Matadors Saturday night. “It’s the last [home] game and there was a lot of emotion going on,” Watten said. “We[Read More…]
49ers notch back-to-back wins, defeat UCSB
With only two home games remaining for the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team, it is imperative to take care of business at the friendly confines of the Walter Pyramid. The Beach scored a routine four-set victory over the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, 30-20, 26-30, 30-20, 30-24, Friday night in[Read More…]
49ers come up short against the Cardinal
The third time was not the charm for the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team Friday night. The 49ers lost a five-set match to the fifth-ranked Stanford Cardinal, 30-28, 18-30, 26-30, 30-26, 18-20, at the Walter Pyramid. LBSU (10-13, 7-11 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) has lost all three matches against[Read More…]