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PREVIEW: Long Beach State Men’s Water Polo Hosts NCAA Tournament Game

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Long Beach State men’s water polo hosted and won the Golden Coast Conference Tournament last weekend at Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. The 10-6 victory over top-seeded Pacific in the championship game qualified LBSU for its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1991.

The Beach hosts Pomona-Pitzer for the play-in game at 7 p.m. tonight, and the winner advances to the quarterfinals against UC San Diego at Stanford next weekend.

READ MORE about how the Beach got this far…

Long Beach State Men’s Water Polo Wins Conference Tournament

JJ Fiddler
JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
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