Box score LAKEWOOD — Freshman right-hander Taylor Petty looked like anything but a pitcher six months removed from surgery at Lisa Fernandez Field on Saturday morning. The hurler led Long Beach State to a 5-0 win over Brigham Young in the 49er softball team’s first game of the day at[Read More…]
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Linke delivers heroics again for 49er softball
Box score LAKEWOOD — For the second consecutive day, right fielder Danielle Linke came up with a big home run to propel the Long Beach State softball team to victory. The leadoff hitter went 1-for-3 with the difference-making three-run blast to give the 49ers a 4-1 win over Wisconsin at[Read More…]
Women’s hoops falls, 70-61
Box score The Long Beach State women’s basketball team dropped a key game Saturday night to Cal State Fullerton, 70-61, at the Walter Pyramid. A win would have virtually guaranteed the team a spot in the postseason Big West Conference Tournament that begins March 11. Fullerton guards Lauren Chow and[Read More…]
Women’s tennis edges No. 59 St. Mary’s, 5-2
In one of the tightest match-ups of the season, the No. 42 Long Beach State women’s tennis team defeated No. 59 Saint Mary’s, 5-2, at the Rhodes Tennis Center on Saturday. Doubles action headlined the all-time wins leader in 49er history, Hannah Grady, and her partner Jessica Weeks in a[Read More…]
LBSU drops back-to-back contests to Cal
Box score The hits keep coming, but so do the errors and wild pitches. The Long Beach State Dirtbags were defeated, 9-6, at the hands of the University of California Golden Bears in front of 1,090 at Blair Field on Saturday. “Defensively, we obviously need to cut those errors out,[Read More…]
Softball braves the Cyclones for fourth consecutive win
Box score LAKEWOOD — Head coach Kim Sowder plugged right fielder Danielle Linke in the leadoff spot this season to add power at the top of the Long Beach State order. With runners at the corner and two outs in the sixth inning, the senior delivered. Linke lifted a three-run[Read More…]
Errors hurt Dirtbags in 9th-inning rally
Box score It took 12 total pitchers, 27 combined hits and 19 total runs, but a winner was finally decided. The Long Beach State Dirtbags were defeated by the University of California Golden Bears, 11-8, on Friday night at Blair Field. “That one is just really frustrating because we felt[Read More…]
Grady sets LBSU all-time total wins record
Long Beach State women’s tennis dominated UC Riverside with a 7-0 sweep Friday at Rhodes Tennis Center. Senior Hannah Grady secured the school record for all-time wins with 149 and the team improved to 3-0 in Big West Conference play. First off the courts for doubles were freshmen Anais Dallara[Read More…]
Tiebreakers may determine regular-season conference champion
Click here for the Big West Conference standings When deadlocked atop the standings heading toward the end of the regular season, the next thing to look at is possible tiebreaker situations. Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge started Wednesday tied for first place in the Big West Conference men’s[Read More…]
Coach: Sprinter ‘among very best’ in LBSU history
Brent Gray — catch that name or did it run by too fast? A senior sprinter, Gray has so much speed that he just might be fast enough to run in the 2012 Olympics. Last spring, Gray competed in the outdoor NCAA Championships with 2008 Beijing Olympic medalists’ Walter Dix[Read More…]