An impressive comeback against Kent State helped the Long Beach State softball team cap off a successful five-game run in the Mizuno Invitational at the 49er Softball Complex. The 49ers began their season on Thursday with a 10-0 loss against the No. 12 team in the country, Kentucky. It was[Read More…]
Women’s Sports
49ers respond from loss to UCI with British Night win over UCR
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team split their games against UC Irvine and UC Riverside, falling at UCI 78-58 on Thursday before defeating the Highlanders at the Walter Pyramid, 65-52. Both games featured slow starts out of the gate, with the 49ers not hitting double figures until the five-minute[Read More…]
CLARK: Long Beach State is set up for success right off the bat
The Long Beach State softball team has quietly become the most consistently good team on campus. The 49ers have finished in the top two of the Big West Conference three years in a row, and this year doesn’t figure to end up any differently. Ranked second in the Big West[Read More…]
LBSU to take on bottom-half Big West foes in UC Irvine, UC Riverside
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team begins the second half of their Big West schedule visiting UC Irvine on Thursday, followed by a Saturday game at the Walter Pyramid against UC Riverside. The 49ers will face two of the Big West’s top scorers in Irvine’s senior forward Camille Buckley[Read More…]
Softball team ready to swing away
With the return of four key starters, the Long Beach State softball team hopes to build off its strong 2013 finish. After winning consecutive Big West titles in 2011 and 2012, the 49ers’ postseason streak came to an end last year. Despite winning 10 out of their last 12 games,[Read More…]
Pyramid to go British
Junior forward Ella Clark won’t be blowing the candles out at home, but she will be celebrating her 22nd birthday inside a British-themed Walter Pyramid with her sisters. Following the Saturday game against UC Riverside, the 49ers will be hosting British Night at the ‘Mid to help send Clark and[Read More…]
Comeback too little, too late for Long Beach State
Old conference opponents squared off in a battle worthy of a rivalry renewed as the Long Beach State women’s water polo team came up just short in a 5-4 loss to No. 9 San Diego State Sunday at the Campus Pool. The 12th-ranked 49ers struggled out of the gate in[Read More…]
Trends: Marketing Manhood
Barbie has grown up, moved from Malibu to Memphis and is now CEO of the company. It’s what Ken had always feared. Just as women have faced objectification in mainstream media for generations— it’s hard to forget those commercials featuring women ravenously eating messy hamburgers on soapy hot rods— today’s[Read More…]
49er women win close game against Hawaii, blow out Fullerton
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team got back on the winning track by taking down the Big West’s top-ranked Hawaii in a 74-72 game that was close throughout. The Beach got things started off how it had hoped, with good post defense and constant commotion down low. Senior Jade[Read More…]
Long Beach State suffers blowout defeat at CSUN
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team left The Matadome with its fourth straight loss on the road Saturday night, losing 77-54 to Cal State Northridge after a night in which the 49ers just didn’t play as well as they needed to. The ‘Niners kept up with CSUN for much[Read More…]