For a player with as much tough luck the past two seasons as Karina Figueroa, it’s hard to imagine that Friday the 13th could be one of her better days. Her 23-point, 10-assist double-double and four steals led the Long Beach State women’s basketball team to a 76-68 upset over[Read More…]
Women’s Sports
Wynn hauls in first batch of recruits
Long Beach State women’s basketball head coach Jody Wynn announced the signing of her first recruiting class on Thursday. Janae Coffee, Chantel Dooley and Brandi Henton each penned National Letters of Intent to play for the 49ers in 2010. “We are extremely happy with our early signees,” Wynn said in[Read More…]
SEASON PREVIEW: 49ers prepare for first season of Wynn era
There’s a new aura surrounding the Long Beach State women’s basketball team this season. First-year head coach Jody Wynn’s infectious, upbeat personality has spread like a wild fire as she works to sell her approach of playing basketball to a team that finished 8-21 last season. And early on, the[Read More…]
LBSU women’s basketball picked 5th
All signs point to progress for first-year head coach Jody Wynn after inheriting a team that finished at the bottom of the Big West Conference last season. The 49ers gathered 99 points and were selected to finish fifth in the Big West Preseason Media Poll. Coach Wynn doesn’t think much[Read More…]
Big West coaches create hell’s kitchen
Big West Media Day coverage ANAHEIM — Basketball coaches turned in their playbooks for aprons and cookbooks Tuesday at the ESPN Zone at Downtown Disney. Featuring just the Southern California-based schools, five of the nine Big West Conference men’s and women’s head coaches competed in a cook-off as part of[Read More…]
Coaches cook up season outlook
Cook-off coverage ANAHEIM — Before doing battle on the court, the Big West Conference men’s and women’s basketball coaches had the opportunity to face-off in the kitchen Tuesday at the ESPN Zone at Downtown Disney. Afterward, the collection of five Southern California Big West schools — Cal State Fullerton, Cal[Read More…]
‘Niner Notes: Oct. 10-12
Women’s Volleyball: Hot-hitting Tigers halt 49er streak at seven Box score The 49er women’s volleyball team fell to Pacific 25-16, 22-25, 25-22, 25-22, Saturday night at the Alex G. Spanos Center, putting an end to its seven-match winning streak. Senior Naomi Washington had 20 kills on .333 hitting to lead[Read More…]
‘Niner Notes: Oct 9
Women’s Volleyball: Balanced effort keys seventh straight victory Box score The 49er women’s volleyball team swept UC Davis, 25-23, 25-21, 25-22, Friday night at Upper Hickey Gym to push its winning streak to seven matches. Outside hitter Caitlin Ledoux tallied 13 kills to help the ‘Niners maintain sole possession of[Read More…]
‘Niner Notes: Oct 3-4
Women’s tennis: The Beach completes Day 2 at Cal NIKE Invite Sophomore Julie Luzar defeated Pacific’s Olga Gumenyuk 6-1, 6-3 to win the Flight C championship at the Cal NIKE Invitational on Sunday. In doubles action, the team of Deborah Armstrong and Anais Dallara fell, 8-4, to Cal’s Kasia Siowosz[Read More…]
Weary 49ers exit NCAA tournament with loss to Fresno St.
LBSU vs. Fresno State box score LBSU vs. UNLV box score LOS ANGELES — After outdueling UNLV, 3-1, in 13 innings to fight off elimination, the 49er softball team just had nothing left in the tank. Long Beach State (35-21) was upended by Fresno State, 12-2, Saturday night at UCLA’s[Read More…]