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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…]

Weber produces 6 hits in 49ers’ doubleheader sweep

Game 1 box score Game 2 box score One can always expect a Long Beach State-Cal State Fullerton game to be an emotional, back-and-forth struggle and Saturday’s doubleheader at the 49er Softball Complex was just that. LBSU (29-17, 10-4 Big West Conference) downed the Titans in both games to move[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…]

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…]

Franchitti wins Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Dario Franchitti took first place in the IndyCar Series at the 35th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Franchitti said at the press conference after the race, “that last restart we were able to get on it again, pull away, and the Target car, the pace was great all[Read More…]

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