At the halfway point in their Big West Conference schedule, the Dirtbags are 7-5 and sit at 20-20 overall. The 7-5 mark puts them fourth in the Big West race behind UC Irvine (11-1), Cal Poly (10-5) and Cal State Fullerton (9-6). While the Dirtbags were swept at UCI three[Read More…]
Men’s Sports
Sports Picks: Women’s golf earns No. 15 seed for NCAA West Regional
Softball Junior earns first Player of the Week honor Junior left fielder Ashley Weber was named Big West Conference Softball Player of the Week on Monday. Weber earned the first weekly honor of her career after helping the 49ers take two out of three against Cal State Fullerton as she[Read More…]
Sports Picks: Dirtbags sweep Pacific
Baseball LBSU sweeps Pacific The Dirtbags (20-19, 7-5 Big West Conference) completed the series sweep with a 10-3 win Sunday over the Pacific Tigers (16-22, 7-8 Big West). Down two in the third, the Dirtbags scored four runs and captured the lead for good. Devin Lohman and TJ Mittelstaedt each[Read More…]
Men’s volleyball season ended by Pepperdine – again
MALIBU — Much like last season, the Pepperdine Waves were just too much for the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team to prolong its postseason Saturday night. The No. 2-seeded Waves ended the No. 7 49ers’ season in similar fashion with a 30-28, 30-25, 23-30, 30-27 victory in the quarterfinals[Read More…]
Men’s volleyball draws familiar MPSF foe
Head coach Alan Knipe won’t need much time to scout the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team’s first-round Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament opponent. The No. 7-seeded 49ers will travel to Malibu to face the No. 2 Pepperdine Waves — the defending MPSF champions — at Firestone Fieldhouse Saturday night.[Read More…]
‘Niners earn conference accolades in tennis, golf
Hannah Grady capped off her Big West Conference tennis career by becoming the first four-time Player of the Year award recipient in conference history. Grady went undefeated in singles action during conference play at 11-0 this season, helping guide the 49ers to their sixth straight conference crown. She compiled a[Read More…]
Aztecs drop Dirtbags, 6-3
Box score SAN DIEGO — The Long Beach State Dirtbags fell, 6-3, against the host San Diego State Aztecs Tuesday night at Tony Gwynn Stadium. The game started off slowly, with each pitcher working at a snail’s pace. The scoring opened in the top of the third inning, when Jonathan[Read More…]
Women claim 1st Big West golf crown
For the first time in the history of the Long Beach State women’s golf program, the 49ers can call themselves Big West Conference champions. The Beach shot 65-over-par 929 to edge UC Davis and UC Irvine by a stroke Tuesday at the San Luis Obispo Country Club. The Anteaters made[Read More…]
Baseball, softball pitchers earn weekly honors
The Big West Conference honored Long Beach State’s Adam Wilk and Brooke Turner as the Pitcher of the Week in their respective sports Monday. Wilk, a junior left-hander for the Dirtbags, tossed eight scoreless innings in a 1-0 win over Cal State Northridge last Friday. He struck out six batters,[Read More…]
Women end Day 1 in lead, men in 5th
The 49er women’s golf team wrapped up Day 1 at the Big West Conference Championship, taking a two-round score of 45-over 621 into the clubhouse Monday. The highest individual score in each round is thrown out of the final team tally for that round. LBSU holds a two-shot lead over[Read More…]