Long Beach State track and field will make its outdoor debut Saturday at the Ben Brown Invitational in Fullerton. The men’s team will be competing for the first time since winning the outdoor Big West Conference Championship last spring, while the women’s team will set out to make a run[Read More…]
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‘Niners fall to Trojans in five at the Pyramid
Box score The Southern California Trojans are sometimes referred to as the Men of Troy. It was only fitting that a man named Troy helped defeat the No. 6 Long Beach State 49ers men’s volleyball team in a five-set thriller Wednesday night 29-31, 30-24, 23-30, 30-23, 15-13. USC outside hitter[Read More…]
Beach heads North to finish Big West schedule
Long Beach State’s men’s basketball team started Big West Conference play the same way it will finish — by taking on Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara. When LBSU (14-13, 9-5 Big West) last took on Cal Poly (7-19, 3-11 Big West), it was its most lopsided conference win. The[Read More…]
Latest ruling deems 7th-graders hoops prospects
Dan Monson is a never-say-never kind of guy when it comes to the NCAA’s latest change to the recruiting rules. The Long Beach State head coach cited competitiveness as one of the reasons he thought the NCAA decided to classify seventh-graders as men’s basketball prospects in mid-January. “The problem is[Read More…]
The ‘magic number’ is 1 for men’s basketball
Big West standings In sports, the “magic number” refers to either how many wins one team needs or losses it needs by the teams behind them in the standings in order to clinch. While the Long Beach State men’s basketball team’s loss to Cal State Northridge on Saturday makes winning[Read More…]
Women end Day 1 in 4th
Long Beach State ended the first day of the Wave Invitational in fourth place on Tuesday. The No. 47 49ers shot an 18-over-par 306 at the Moorpark Country Club to open the tournament hosted by Pepperdine, which leads the six-team field. The Waves are a whopping 11 strokes ahead of[Read More…]
49ers finish 8th in tournament
Long Beach State shot 306 in the final round of the Braveheart Classic to finish in eighth place on Tuesday. Oregon won the team title by seven strokes over Southern Utah as the Ducks carded an 11-over-par 875 total. The 49ers ended the two-day event at 32-over 896 at the[Read More…]
Cal sweeps Dirtbags
Box score Behind a 15-hit attack, California swept Long Beach State with a 6-3 win Sunday in front of 1,419 at Blair Field. The Golden Bears (6-2) took control of a 2-2 game in the in the top of the seventh when Blake Smith drove in Jeff Kobernus with a[Read More…]
Softball completes 5-game sweep at Mayfair Tournament
Long Beach State vs. Iowa State box score Long Beach State vs. Fresno State box score LAKEWOOD — Unlike Friday’s 6-5 win over Iowa State, the ‘Niners made sure to pounce the Cyclones early in Sunday’s rematch and never showed mercy. That is, until they had to. The Long Beach[Read More…]
49ers lose battle of 1st-place Big West powers
Box score NORTHRIDGE — A team now sits alone atop the Big West Conference men’s basketball rankings, but it is not the Long Beach State 49ers. LBSU didn’t have an answer for the Cal State Northridge offensive attack and fell at the hands of the Matadors, 95-74, on Saturday. CSUN[Read More…]