Box score NORTHRIDGE — After surrendering just over 75 points per game through 15 contests, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team displayed something it’s lacked all season on Wednesday: true defensive grit. The 49ers finished with a season-high 13 steals and forced 24 turnovers en route to its first[Read More…]
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Ware guides The Beach to third straight win
Box score The Long Beach State men’s basketball team won its third straight game Wednesday night in an 85-71 rout over Cal State Northridge in front of 1,956 fans at the Walter Pyramid. The 49ers (8-8, 3-0 Big West Conference) have started conference play with their first three-game win streak[Read More…]
Looking for home cooking
The inconsistency from last season appears to be enough of a wake-up call for the Long Beach State men’s basketball team. After practice Monday afternoon, senior guard Greg Plater quickly recalled a feat that the 49ers did not accomplish until the end of last year’s regular season and into the[Read More…]
Men’s volleyball sweeps exhibition finale
Box score The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team closed out its preseason matchups Monday night with a 3-0 sweep of visiting Alberta at the Walter Pyramid. The 49ers seized control of the match early on with a 25-19 win in the first set. However, the second set was a[Read More…]
Extra possessions haunt ‘Niners
Box score After opening Big West Conference play with what head coach Jody Wynn called a “lifeless” effort, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team started Sunday’s game with a little more fight. However, the 49ers could not capitalize on an early 14-point lead and lost, 83-72, to visiting Cal[Read More…]
49ers roll, complete Central Coast sweep
Box score One thing that plagued the Long Beach State men’s basketball team last season was letdowns. Through the first two games of Big West Conference play, the 49ers look like a team that is ready to change that this year. LBSU led by as many as 24 points in[Read More…]
LBSU overwhelmed in conference opener
Box score Throughout the entire season, Long Beach State women’s basketball head coach Jody Wynn has been adamant about her team combining effort with performance during games. Unfortunately for Wynn, the 49ers failed to answer their coach’s desperate plea as they suffered a 70-43 drubbing against UC Santa Barbara to[Read More…]
Anderson returns, sparks LBSU in Big West opener
Box score Long Beach State junior Larry Anderson returned from injury Tuesday night and looked like the first-team All-Big West Conference selection from two seasons ago. Anderson came off the bench to score 15 of his game-high 25 points in the second half, and the 49ers men’s basketball team knocked[Read More…]
Wynn remains ‘optimistic’ heading into conference play
After a tumultuous 2-11 start to the season, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team may have finally found what it’s been missing all year: it’s identity. Indeed, the 49ers have been searching for a legitimate starting lineup because of injuries to four of their players, including two of their[Read More…]
MCDANNALD: Haven’t we been here before?
The calendar year may read 2010, but it looks eerily similar to the end of 2009 for the Long Beach State men’s basketball team. The 49ers (5-8) will face defending Big West Conference champion UC Santa Barbara (6-4) in the conference opener Tuesday at the Thunderdome in Goleta. The game,[Read More…]