After spending two weekends on the road, the 49ers returned home to face their rivals, the San Diego Toreros. And what a homecoming it was. Competing in front of a season-high 808 spectators, No. 22 Long Beach State (7-3) played suffocating defense and got a late goal from freshman forward[Read More…]
Women’s Sports
Long Beach State opens Big West play with win over Cal Poly
Sophomore middle blocker Alma Serna celebrated her birthday by leading the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team to victory Friday night. The Beach (6-6, 1-0 Big West Conference) defeated Cal Poly (1-11, 0-1 Big West) in four sets (25-17, 23-25, 25-21, 25-14) in the Big West Conference opener. Serna recorded[Read More…]
49ers will have to battle for back-to-back Big West titles
With the addition of Hawaii and the continued improvement of teams such as Pacific and Cal State Northridge, the Big West Conference looks to be highly competitive in 2012. The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team begins its Big West title defense Friday when it hosts Cal Poly.
San Diego to visit Long Beach State in annual rivalry match
It has been 304 days since the 22nd-ranked Long Beach State women’s soccer team defeated San Diego in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament. That’s 304 days of reminiscing on the 49er sideline about a rainy, muddy afternoon game that was won in the 56th minute by Ashley Roese’s[Read More…]
The Beach wins two of three in Illinois
In its last opportunity to build momentum before beginning Big West Conference play, the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team won two of three matches at the Bradley Invitational. The ‘Niners (5-6) opened the tournament Friday night by defeating Arkansas State in four sets. They continued their success on Saturday[Read More…]
LBSU defeats Army but loses heartbreaker to Texas Tech
After Sunday’s 2-0 win over Army in the Under Armour Invitational in Fullerton, more than a few Long Beach State women’s soccer players had ice applied to their limbs. The ice had several purposes - it provided quick relief from the triple-digit heat; it was a temporary cure for a[Read More…]
Serna returns from injury as ‘Niners head to Illinois
Alma Serna has exchanged her crutches and walking boot for court shoes and kneepads. Although she has been limited in her return to action, Serna is finally back on the court after being sidelined by an opening-match ankle sprain for nearly three weeks. The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team[Read More…]
Link is 49ers’ lone star in Texas
When the Long Beach State women’s soccer team traveled to the Lone Star State over the weekend, it found that everything – the crowds, the losses, the victories – is bigger in Texas. After enduring a 3-0 beatdown to Texas A&M in front of nearly 2,000 fans Friday night, the[Read More…]
LBSU gets mixed results in Seattle
Looking to get back on track, the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team came away with a win in one of its two matches over the weekend at the Washington Invitational. The Beach (3-5) defeated Seattle (4-5) in straight sets Saturday night, but fell to No. 7 Washington (8-0) in[Read More…]
Long Beach State women’s volleyball team to battle in Seattle
After a rough stretch of matches to begin the season, the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team is hoping to turn things around this weekend at the Washington Invitational. The non-conference schedule for the Beach (2-4) has been difficult to this point, and it does not get any easier. The[Read More…]