A pair of timely Long Beach State home runs capped the softball team’s pair of wins Saturday at the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic in Las Vegas. LBSU 11, Arkansas 0 (5 innings, mercy-rule victory) Box score Junior Megan Denio’s walk-off grand slam — her first career home run — gave[Read More…]
Women’s Sports
Bats power The Beach to split in Las Vegas
LBSU 13, Southern Ill.-Edwardsville 5 (5 innings, mercy-rule victory) Box score The Long Beach State softball team posted a season-high 13 runs in a 13-5 mercy-rule victory over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in five innings at the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic in Las Vegas. The 49ers (5-1) received a school record-tying six[Read More…]
OT thriller caps Senior Night
Box score The Long Beach State women’s basketball team saved its best for last Thursday in its final regular-season home game at the Walter Pyramid. The 49ers gave their home crowd more than enough reasons to celebrate as they rallied from a 12-point deficit in the second half for a[Read More…]
MCDANNALD: Who’s the new guy?
The Long Beach State men’s basketball team is starting to come together like a team of Big West Conference championship destiny. While the flu-ridden Casper Ware certainly deserves plenty of headlines for his best Michael Jordan impersonation last Saturday, it is one of his back-ups that deserves some much-needed praise.[Read More…]
Petty tames Lions in the circle
Box score The Long Beach State softball team completed an opening weekend sweep Sunday by beating Loyola Marymount, 4-1, at the 49er Softball Complex. Taylor Petty (2-0) recorded 10 strikeouts and allowed just one earned run in the complete-game win for LBSU (4-0). Four of her seven innings pitched were[Read More…]
Freshman repeats performance against Boise State
Box score Erin Jones-Wesley’s second start for the Long Beach State softball team (3-0) turned out much like her first one, with a 2-0 win over Boise State (1-3) Sunday at the 49er Softball Complex. For the second day in a row, Jones-Wesley (2-0) had eight strikeouts and a complete[Read More…]
Freshman stellar in softball debut
Box score Freshman pitcher Erin Jones-Wesley struck out eight batters Saturday in a 2-0 Long Beach State victory over Boise State at the 49er Softball Complex. In her first appearance for the 49ers (2-0), Jones-Wesley allowed only three hits and one walk in a complete-game shutout. She struck out five[Read More…]
Two-out rally lifts ‘Niners in season opener
Long Beach State senior Liz Javier drove in what proved to be the winning runs of the softball team’s 5-3 season-opening victory against Loyola Marymount Saturday at the 49er Softball Complex. With two strikes, two outs and the score tied at 3, the third baseman hit a two-run bloop single[Read More…]
Jacob leads The Beach over UC Davis in nail-biter
Box score What a world of difference a week made. Just eight days removed from a 19-point thrashing, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team may have put a scare into the opposing teams of the Big West Conference on Saturday. The 49ers (7-19, 5-7 Big West) moved into sixth[Read More…]
Bounce-back year for 49ers softball?
Long Beach State softball has something to prove when the team starts its season this Saturday. Coming off a campaign where the team finished 21-21 overall and 10-11 in Big West Conference play, head coach Kim Sowder said she wasn’t surprised the team was predicted to finish fourth by the[Read More…]