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Baseball
Dirtbags picked 5th
Under first-year head coach Troy Buckley, the Long Beach State baseball team is expected to finish in the middle of the pack in the Big West Conference. The Dirtbags, who finished 23-32 overall and 7-17 in conference play last season, were picked to finish fifth by the league’s nine head[Read More…]
‘Niner Notes
Baseball: Dirtbags release 2011 schedule The Dirtbags released their 2011 schedule on Tuesday, which includes a home-and-home series with Big West Conference rival Cal State Fullerton. As it did in 2010, Long Beach State will have one of the more challenging nonconference schedules in the nation. The Dirtbags open the[Read More…]
No summer vacation for Dirtbags
Summer is typically the time when college athletes rest up for their upcoming season, but three Dirtbags are working hard to ensure that 2010’s last place Big West Conference finish doesn’t happen again. Long Beach State sophomore infielder Matt Duffy has spent his summer playing in the West Coast League[Read More…]
FanFest takes over Mickey’s backyard
ANAHEIM — Baseball jerseys ranging from the hometown Los Angeles Angels, cross-town rival Los Angeles Dodgers, and even the Pittsburgh Pirates, littered the Anaheim Convention Center this weekend. Even Mickey Mouse was sprinkled throughout the facility. Major League Baseball’s 20th annual All-Star FanFest, the five-day appetizer to Tuesday’s All-Star Game,[Read More…]
Dirtbags take next step to realizing big league dreams
Eight Dirtbags were selected in last week’s 2010 Major League Baseball first-year player draft, which tied for the second most of any team in the Big West Conference. Junior Jake Thompson became the first Long Beach State player chosen (third from the Big West) when the Tampa Bay Rays took[Read More…]
Eight Dirtbags taken in draft
Despite a last-place finish in the Big West Conference, Long Beach State had eight of its players selected in the Major League Baseball first-year player draft on Tuesday and Wednesday. Right-handed pitcher Jake Thompson was the first Dirtbag player to be selected as he went at No. 66 overall to[Read More…]
Buckley officially introduced as head coach
The first rollercoaster ride of the Troy Buckley Era wasn’t delivered by a Dirtbags pitcher, but instead by an emotional Buckley. He was officially introduced as the seventh head coach of the Long Beach State baseball program Tuesday at a press conference in the Walter Pyramid’s Ukleja Room. Buckley, who[Read More…]
Weathers’ farewell game spoiled by Anteaters
Box score Long Beach State head coach Mike Weathers said earlier this week that he just wanted a sunny day for his last game as the Dirtbags’ skipper. The sun was shining for the ninth-year head coach, but his team couldn’t come through in the end to send Weathers out[Read More…]
‘Good attack’ dooms Dirtbags at Blair Field
Box score The Dirtbags surrendered a leadoff single to start their game against UC Irvine on Friday. It was all downhill from there. Long Beach State (23-30, 7-15 Big West Conference) couldn’t overcome the initial blow as the Anteaters compiled five extra base hits to put away the Dirtbags 6-0[Read More…]