Long Beach — Facing elimination, Cal State Fullerton came out like a completely different ball club in game two of the NCAA Super Regional series overmatching Long Beach State. After being shutout in game one, the Titans demoralized the home team at Blair Field, collecting 15 hits to beat the[Read More…]
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Dirtbags start early, win game one
Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State entered Blair Field on Friday both ready to reinvent a rivalry. The two storied college baseball programs went heads up in a NCAA Super Regional tournament for the first time ever in front of 2,764 fans of nearly even allegiances. The Dirtbags (42-18-1)[Read More…]
Women’s volleyball head coach Brian Gimmillaro is moving on
Long Beach State women’s volleyball coach Brian Gimmillaro help create the foundation of producing some of the best volleyball talent the sport has ever seen. He coached Olympian Misty May-Treanor, who is arguably the greatest to play the sport of volleyball. Gimmillaro led Treanor to winning National Player of the[Read More…]
Dirtbags vs. Titans in a renewed rivalry
Resiliency was the theme of Long Beach State’s NCAA Regional performance, playing five games in 36 hours and winning the final three in do-or-die fashion. The Dirtbags’ true toughness was tested, but they proved that they can come out on top even with their backs against the wall. “When you’re[Read More…]
Radcliffe keeps Dirtbags season alive
The biggest concern No. 7 Long Beach State had to deal with at the start of its season was pitching depth. Besides junior ace Darren McCaughan, the Dirtbags didn’t even have a set three-man weekend rotation for the first month of the 2017 campaign. One by one, guys started to[Read More…]
John Sheaks leads Dirtbags past San Diego State in 7-4 win.
The No.7 Long Beach State Dirtbags survived elimination from the NCAA Regional after beating San Diego State 7-4 in Sunday’s day game at Blair Field. A bounce back performance from their junior starter John Sheaks and a 13-hit offensive onslaught helped the host team advance to a rematch of Saturday[Read More…]
Texas outlasts Dirtbags
It took 12 innings to decide the winner of the Long Beach Regional winner’s bracket game between No.7 Long Beach State and Texas. The Dirtbags could not find a way to win in the exciting late frames and were topped by the Longhorns 5-3. Texas (39-22) answered all three leads[Read More…]
Dirtbags kick off the NCAA Regional
The scene at Blair Field on the eve of the 2017 NCAA Regional tournament was hectic as ESPN crews ran endless amounts of TV cables, brought in and stationed new lighting trucks throughout the park and vendors hauled in food and drinks by the ton. Amongst the chaos, Long Beach[Read More…]
A Dirtbags’ Dozen
As if the No.7 Long Beach State Dirtbags hadn’t already accomplished enough as a team in 2017, they took home 12 individual All-Big West Conference honors this season setting a new program record. LBSU (34-17-1, 20-4 Big West) also accounted for half of the six major awards including pitcher of[Read More…]
Dirtbags win Big West series against CSUF
FULLERTON, CA — After No. 7 Long Beach State’s 2-1 victory in game two against No. 14 Cal State Fullerton, head coach Troy Buckley could not stress enough how hard it is to win at Goodwin Field. The Dirtbags (37-17-1, 20-4 Big West) proved that theory true in the rubber[Read More…]