Winning Ways
Long Beach State women’s volleyball sweeps Virginia 3-1 to close the Mizuno Invitational. Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach – Flickr – Facebook From LBSU reports Sept. 11, 2010 Box Score Long Beach, Calif. – Sophomore Janisa Johnson turned in her fifth double-double of the season, making 16 kills and 10 digs [...]
49ers fall to USD
Even the return of Ashley Lee, last season’s starting setter, was not enough as the University of San Diego pulls away in their 3-1 victory. Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach – Flicker – Facebook From LBSU reports Sept. 10, 2010 Box Score Long Beach, Calif. – Long Beach State clawed to [...]
WVB: Booster’s view from Texas
Texas size road trip with Bill King Bill King, long time women’s volleyball booster, made the road trip with the team to the University of Texas. He is not only an active booster, but he is also the creator of the “Spikers Newsletter”, a weekly publication focusing on Long Beach State’s outstanding women’s volleyball program. [...]
Rally Falls Short
The 49ers come up a little short as their rally stalls in their 3-2 loss to Texas. Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach - Facebook - Flicker From LBSU reports Sept. 4, 2010 Box Score Austin, Texas – Down two sets to none, the 49ers recovered against No. 2 Texas, winning the [...]
BW Players of the Week: Ledoux, Link, & Kingsborough
Not only did Long Beach State’s athletic teams make into the national rankings this week, volleyball at No. 23 and soccer at No. 24, but three athletes earned the conference’s player of the week award: Caitlin Ledoux, Emily Kingsborough and Nadia Link. From Big West Reports Ledoux Captures First Big West Honor Of New Season [...]
Opening Day Sweep
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team open the season with a sweep of Rutgers and UNLV. Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach – Facebook – Flickr From LBSU Reports Aug. 27, 2010 Box Score Long Beach, Calif. – Instead of the freshmen like the morning match, it was a sophomore who [...]
Women’s Soccer: LBSU downed by BYU 2-0
Long Beach State went into half time against BYU feeling pretty good about their overall play. The 49ers played the Cougars pretty even up to that point, but the first 8 minutes of the second half was a different story. The No. 22 ranked team from Prove, Utah kicked it into another gear scoring two [...]
WVB: Freshman class making an impact
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team just completed their first full week of double day practices, but there is already a buzz among fans and boosters that have attended practices. This air of excitement has nothing to do with the program’s returning players that came in fit, significantly improved, and raring to go, but [...]
49ers lose to SDSU
LBSU women’s soccer control the ball and the tempo but can not make up an early deficit in their 2-1 loss to SDSU. The match started out well with The Beach in possession of the ball for the majority of the first 15 minutes, but a defensive breakdown gave the Aztecs from San Diego State [...]
Say No: Anderson & Wilson
49er duo lead their Say No Classic team to victory. The Say No Classic’s championship season started this weekend and one of the playoff bound teams have two Long Beach State 49ers playing prominent roles. Both Larry Anderson and Tristan Wilson have been tearing it up this summer on team Power Balance and the first [...]
Sparks in the House
Sparks fall short in their final tuneup against the San Antonio Silver Stars losing 86-77. Box Score – Los Angeles Sparks Saturday brought a pre mother’s day celebration to Long Beach as the LA Sparks hosted the San Antonio Silvers Stars at the Walter Pyramid. This was a special day for many local women’s basketball [...]
WBB: Season Highlight Video
Lissa Lawrence put together a nice video recapping the women’s basketball 2010 season. The video is located on Vimeo but I have also embedded it below: Long Beach State University Women’s Basketball 2009-2010 from Lissa Lawrence on Vimeo.
MBB: Coach Monson signs 3 more
The Long Beach State men’s basketball program adds 3 more to their fall class. Combining both classes, The Beach will have 6 new faces when pactice opens in the fall. Expectations will be high next season as the majority of the LBSU fans will not be satisfied with anything less then a conference championship and [...]
Big West Championship
Long Beach State’s women’s tennis team comes up short in their quest for a 7th straight conference tournament championship. In a very eventful weekend, the young ladies on Long Beach State’s women’s tennis team battled through some adversity and came up a wee bit short in their title quest. The regular season champs lost to [...]
Softball splits with Cal Poly
LBSU softball bounces back from an earlier loss to defeat Cal Poly 4-0 in the second game of a home double-header. When the Big West conference schedules were released many Southern California softball fans circled the double-header between the Cal Poly Mustangs and the Long Beach State 49ers. The games were played on a beautiful [...]
Spring Soccer: LBSU defeats LMU 3-0
Two second half goals propel the LBSU women’s soccer team to a 3-0 victory over LMU Long Beach State concluded their spring season with another shutout defeating LMU 3-0 at George Allen Field. Goals were scored by Nadia Link, Nicole Sweetman, and Karina Camacho. This was the fifth shutout of the season for goalie Emily [...]
Men’s Volleyball goes down in 5 to Pepperdine
Volleyball match slips away as Long Beach State loses in 5 to Pepperdine after leading 2-0. From Long Beach State Reports April 15, 2010 Box Score LONG BEACH, Calif. – Long Beach State’s postseason hopes died Thursday night as the 49ers dropped a 29-31, 28-30, 31-29, 31-29, 15-13 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match to Pepperdine [...]
SMU too much for 49ers
With their national ranking (33) on the line, the LBSU women’s tennis team came up short in their 6-1 loss to Saint Marys on Sunday. Images can be found at Ballin’ at Da Beach — Flickr April 11, 2010 Long Beach, Calif. – Facing a tough opponent as the season comes to a close, No. [...]
W-Tennis: Klaudia Malenovska able to practice
The NCAA came down with their decision and it was a harsh one. Freshman Klaudia Malenovska will have to sit out the remainder of this season and the first 11 matches next year; the Long Beach Press-Telegram ran a story on the severity of the penalty. The positives: Klaudia can now practice with the team, [...]
Video: WVB Spring Tourney
Beach Spring Volleyball Tourney at the Mid The following You Tube video was produced by volleyball booster Bill King. Bill also puts together a great newsletter.
Silent at the plate
LBSU was held to 2 hits in their 8-0 home loss to San Diego State. Images at: Ballin’ at Da Beach – Flickr – Facebook From Long Beach State reports – Box Score LONG BEACH – The Long Beach State softball team suffered an 8-0, six-inning defeat to San Diego State Tuesday afternoon at the [...]
Softball loses at UCLA
Eight-run inning turns a competitive game into a route as UCLA defeats LBSU 11-3 Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach – Flickr – Facebook From LBSU reports LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Long Beach State softball team rallied to tie the game at 3-3 in the sixth, but fifth-ranked UCLA erupted for [...]
W-Volleyball: Spring Season
Long Beach State women’s volleyball kick-off the spring season with a home tournament. The Beach started the spring with one win and one loss during their home tournament at the Pyramid. In the morning session the team lost to Big West rival CSUF 2-1 before coming back to defeat the Wisconsin Badgers 2-1 later in [...]
Quick work for W-Tennis
The Long Beach State women’s tennis team overwhelms the young ladies form Washington State 6-1. Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach - Facebook - Flickr From Long Beach State reports March 25, 2010 Long Beach, Calif. – Long Beach State returned to its winning ways Thursday as the No. 36 49ers defeated [...]
