Box score LAKEWOOD — A pair of two-out rallies and dominant starting pitching propelled the Long Beach State softball team to its ninth consecutive victory Friday morning. The 49ers blanked the Longwood Lancers, 4-0, in the opener of the Long Beach State Invitational at Mayfair Park. Freshman starter Taylor Petty[Read More…]
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Golden Panthers pounce on ‘Niner miscues to snap streak
Box score LAKEWOOD — The timely hitting that had propelled the 49er softball team to a nine-game winning streak vanished Friday night at Mayfair Park. Florida International (11-11) stunned Long Beach State (13-8), 9-3, in a game where the ‘Niners stranded 11 runners and left the bases loaded to end[Read More…]
49er women squander latest bid to clinch
Box score The Long Beach State 49ers fell apart down the stretch as they lost to Cal Poly, 70-63, Thursday night at the Walter Pyramid. The Mustangs had four players score in double figures. Forward Kristina Santiago led their team with 17 points, including 11 in the second half. Santiago[Read More…]
LBSU track and field set to compete in first outdoor meet
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…]
‘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…]