After losing two straight road games, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team will return to the Walter Pyramid to host Hawaii and Cal State Northridge with hopes of improving its conference record. LBSU (11-10, 4-5 Big West Conference) holds an impressive 10-3 record at the Pyramid but is just[Read More…]
Women’s Basketball
Women’s basketball: 49ers swept in NorCal
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team came up dry in its Northern California road swing after dropping two straight games against UC Davis and Pacific. LBSU’s two game win streak was snapped by UCD on Thursday at the Pavilion after a 68-62 loss. Sophomore Bianka Balthazar led the way[Read More…]
Women’s basketball: LBSU finishes strong in close contest with UC Irvine
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team defeated UC Irvine 71-61 behind sophomore shooting guard Lauren Spargo’s season-high 16 points on Saturday at the Walter Pyramid. LBSU has now won two in a row after dropping three straight games and has improved to 11-8 overall and 4-3 in the Big[Read More…]
Women’s basketball: 49ers come from behind to defeat Cal State Fullerton
After being on the losing end of a close contest with UC Riverside two days ago, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team took the win in a game against Cal State Fullerton that once again came down to the wire. The 49ers came back from a deficit that was[Read More…]
49er women fall to UC Riverside on last-minute free throws
Long Beach State had dropped its last two games entering Thursday’s game with UC Riverside. UCR sat at the bottom of the Big West, winless in their first three games within the conference. The Beach looked at this meeting as an opportunity to erase the memory of two poor shooting[Read More…]
LBSU women take conference opener
It wasn’t a pretty performance, but the Long Beach State women’s basketball team started its Big West Conference play with a 62-52 win over Cal Poly on Thursday at the Walter Pyramid. In a scrappy game, sophomore guard Alex Sanchez lifted the 49ers (8-5, 1-0 Big West) with a game-high[Read More…]
Balthazar and Skorpen lead LBSU to blowout victory over Columbia
For the first time in seven years, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team will start the Big West Conference season with a winning record after it routed Columbia 79-50 at the Walter Pyramid on Saturday. The blowout win gives LBSU a 7-5 record and a three-game win streak as[Read More…]
49ers take Beach Classic
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team hoisted the third annual Beach Classic trophy after edging out Sam Houston State 50-49 in a title game on Friday at the Walter Pyramid. Claiming the Beach Classic title gives the 49ers their first tournament win in 11 years, as they’ve been in[Read More…]
LBSU’s second-half comeback leads to win over Arizona
Head coach Jody Wynn emphasized focus and effort as prerequisites to the Long Beach State women’s basketball team winning its second game against a Pac-12 opponent this season. She got just that. A gritty performance by the 49ers (4-3) pushed them past another Pac-12 foe in Arizona (5-3) with a[Read More…]
Women’s basketball team to face third Pac-12 opponent in four games
Forty minutes of full effort focus will once again be the calling card for the Long Beach State women’s basketball team (3-3), as it will host another Pac-12 foe in Arizona (4-2) on Sunday. The 49ers suffered a blowout loss to the No. 1 Stanford on Sunday but collected a[Read More…]