Box score Timely hitting carried the Long Beach State Dirtbags to a 5-2 victory as they won the three-game series over the Cal Poly Mustangs Sunday afternoon at Blair Field. With the Dirtbags (21-19, 8-7 Big West Conference) trailing 1-0, LBSU shortstop Kirk Singer started the bottom of the third[Read More…]
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Patron stands ‘a head above the rest’
With 17 freshmen on the 2011 Long Beach State Dirtbags’ roster, Ino Patron should not feel alone, but his statistics with nearly three-fourths of the regular season completed suggest that the stocky first baseman is a head above the rest. Patron currently leads the Dirtbags in three major offensive categories,[Read More…]
Sophomore guides Dirtbags to victory over Cal Poly
Box score Sophomore Juan Avila drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eight inning to lead the Long Beach State baseball team to a 4-3 victory over Cal Poly on Saturday at Blair Field. Tied at 3 with a runner on third in the eighth inning, Avila[Read More…]
Mustangs tee off on Dirtbags in 10-0 rout
Behind two big innings, the Cal Poly Mustangs made a statement against the Long Beach State baseball team at Blair Field Friday night, taking the first contest of a three-game series, 10-0. Coming into the game, the Dirtbags (20-19, 6-7 Big West Conference) sat two games behind Cal Poly (19-17,[Read More…]
LBSU’s bats come alive in romp of USC
Box score Long Beach State baseball head coach Troy Buckley may have opted to give his regular starting pitchers some much-needed rest Tuesday, but the Dirtbags didn’t show any signs of taking the night off. LBSU rallied from a one-run deficit and piled on seven unanswered runs, including four in the[Read More…]
Aviles: Don’t sleep on the Dirtbags just yet
Sitting in fourth place in the Big West Conference standings through two-thirds of the way through the 56-game season has to have Long Beach State baseball head coach Troy Buckley in good spirits. In just Buckley’s first year at the helm, his goal was to be able to compete for[Read More…]
Dirtbags’ freshman homers twice in victory over UCSB
Box score Freshman Ino Patron hit two home runs, including a three-run blast to guide the Long Beach State baseball team to a 6-2 victory over UC Santa Barbara in the final game of the three-game series Saturday at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. With the win, the Dirtbags (19-18, 6-6 Big[Read More…]
Dirtbags drop third consecutive game
Box score Freshman Jeff McNeil collected three hits for the Long Beach State baseball team, but it wasn’t enough as UC Santa Barbara’s pitching staff threw its second straight complete game Friday in a 7-2 win over the Dirtbags at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. The loss marked the third in a[Read More…]
Dirtbags unravel late, lose to Gauchos
Box score Long Beach State starting pitcher Andrew Gagnon threw a complete game Thursday, but judging by the final score, you would never know it. Gagnon allowed just five hits. But three unearned runs on two errors proved to be the difference as the Dirtbags squandered a two-run lead in[Read More…]
Highlanders crush Dirtbags’ bid for a sweep
Box score The Long Beach State baseball team’s push for a series sweep was heavily denied in a 14-2 loss to UC Riverside Highlanders on Sunday at Blair Field. The Highlanders hit and scored more than the two previous games against the Dirtbags (18-16, 5-4 Big West Conference) combined as[Read More…]