Box score RIVERSIDE — The UC Riverside Highlanders are quickly becoming a thorn in the side of Long Beach State men’s basketball. The 49ers lost for the third straight time to UCR, 69-67, in overtime to start Big West Conference play on Saturday night. LBSU (6-8, 0-1 Big West) missed[Read More…]
Men’s Sports
‘Niner Notes: Dec. 29 and 30
Men’s volleyball: 49ers put on offensive showcase Box score The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team hit .361 en route to a 30-24, 30-23, 36-34 victory over Canada’s McMaster University in an exhibition at the Walter Pyramid on Tuesday night. A trio of 49ers reached double figures in kills, led by[Read More…]
MORENO: 49ers are where they should be
On Tuesday, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team did what plenty of other teams have done in Durham, N.C., they lost. But hardly anybody wins in storied Cameron Indoor Stadium anymore. LBSU became the 75th consecutive nonconference opponent to fall in the facility. The 21-point loss ended the most[Read More…]
Final destination: LBSU heads to No. 7 Duke
The gauntlet of nationally-ranked nonconference opponents will come to an end Tuesday for the Long Beach State men’s basketball team. The 49ers (6-6) will travel to Durham, N.C., to face No. 7 Duke (9-1) at hostile Cameron Indoor Stadium, where the Blue Devils are undefeated, and the Cameron Crazies student[Read More…]
No. 3 Kentucky is no Beach
Box score LEXINGTON, Ky. — Fresh off Kentucky’s storied program’s NCAA-record 2,000th win, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team was hoping the Wildcats were going to have that Y2K hangover Wednesday afternoon. For the first 30 minutes they hung right with the third-ranked team in the nation. Then the big boys[Read More…]
‘Niner Notes: Dec. 22
Men’s basketball: Ware earns first career Big West Player of the Week Sophomore point guard Casper Ware the fourth Long Beach State player to earn Big West Conference Player of the Week honors in six weeks. Ware grabbed the weekly award for the first time in his career after leading The[Read More…]
LBSU cannot tame Lions
Box score LOS ANGELES — The 2,074 in attendance probably had to rest their feet after the nail-biter they experienced on Monday night. The Long Beach State men’s basketball team dealt out blows, but Loyola Marymount wouldn’t go down as the 49ers fell 85-80 in overtime at the Gersten Pavilion.[Read More…]
Beach men take down mid-major power Utah State
Box score Seemingly everything was going right for the Long Beach State men’s basketball team against an old Big West Conference foe on Friday night. T.J. Robinson and Casper Ware combined for 44 points in a 75-62 win over visiting Utah State in front of 2,656 at the Walter Pyramid.[Read More…]
‘Niner Notes: Dec. 17
Baseball: Dirtbag prospect found dead Long Beach State Dirtbag recruit James Wernke was found dead in Fullerton on Tuesday after going missing during the weekend. Search and rescue teams discovered his body in the Brea Channel Creek. Wernke was last seen in Fullerton on Saturday with a friend’s yellow Labrador[Read More…]
Hoops teams tackle loaded winter slate
When everybody else at Long Beach State packs it up for the winter, the sports on campus keep going. Here is a list of some key games for the LBSU men’s and women’s basketball teams. Men’s Basketball At No. 4 Kentucky (Dec. 23, 10 a.m.) The Kentucky Wildcats will be[Read More…]