Baseball: LBSU 2, Rice 1 Box score Playing in the home park of the San Francisco Giants, the Dirtbags got a big league-type performance from starting pitcher Andrew Gagnon. The junior allowed one run over eight innings, striking out six and walking one, to lead the Long Beach State baseball[Read More…]
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Third straight victory a steal for Dirtbags
Box score The Long Beach State baseball team scored three runs without the benefit of a base hit Monday and plated the winning run on a stolen base by Mike Marjama — plus an extra base on a wild pitch — to beat Hawaii, 4-3, at Blair Field. The Dirtbags[Read More…]
‘Niners Notes: March 7
Baseball, softball players receive weekly honors Three Long Beach State athletes — one from baseball, two from softball — were named Big West Conference Player of the Week on Monday. Sophomore Nalani St. Germain earned the conference’s Field Player of the Week honor while senior Brooke Turner earned a co-Pitcher[Read More…]
Sixth-inning push propels Dirtbags to first series win
Box score The Long Beach State baseball team rallied in the sixth inning for a 4-1 win against No. 15-ranked Oregon on Sunday. The victory gave LBSU (5-6) its first series win this season. Trailing 1-0 in the sixth, Dirtbags senior Matt Hibbert hit a two-run double with the bases[Read More…]
Dirtbags rally in wild, extra-inning victory
Box score The Long Beach State baseball team rallied from five runs down in the ninth inning to win the second game of a three-game series from No. 15-ranked Oregon, 7-6, in 12 innings Saturday at Blair Field. The Dirtbags (4-6) stormed back to tie the game at 6 in[Read More…]
LBSU unable to solve No. 15 Oregon’s pitching
Box score Just one week after being named Big West Conference Pitcher of the Week, Long Beach State junior Andrew Gagnon was bested by his counterpart and No. 15-ranked Oregon, 5-0, Friday night at Blair Field. Ducks starting pitcher Tyler Anderson (1-0), a potential first-round pick in the Major League[Read More…]
Start time changed for Sunday’s baseball game
Long Beach State has announced that the start time for the Dirtbags’ Sunday game against Oregon has been moved to 12:30 p.m., due to Oregon’s flight time in leaving Southern California. The first two games of the series will remain at their scheduled times, with the Dirtbags hosting Oregon on[Read More…]
Pinch-hit walk-off lifts Dirtbags
Box score Johnny Bekakis’ pinch-hit single to right field in the bottom of the ninth inning drove in the winning run as the Long Beach State baseball team stole a 5-4 win from USC Tuesday night at Blair Field. “I got my pitch, slowed myself down and found the hole[Read More…]
Pitchers receive weekly conference honors
Long Beach State’s Erin Jones-Wesley and Andrew Gagnon were honored Monday with Big West Conference Pitcher of the Week nods after both hurlers defeated top-25 programs for their respective teams. Jones-Wesley’s right arm powered the 49ers softball team to a 2-1 victory over No. 6-ranked Oklahoma. The true freshman allowed[Read More…]
Long Beach St. drops series to No. 17 Arizona
Box score No. 17-ranked Arizona kept the Long Beach State baseball team scoreless for seven innings Sunday en route to a 7-1 victory in the finale of a three-game series at Blair Field on Sunday afternoon. Wildcats starting pitcher Tyler Hale (2-0) allowed just four hits and struck out five[Read More…]