There haven’t been many games this season where the Long Beach State Dirtbags have put it all together, but they certainly did on Saturday in the second game of the doubleheader against No. 25 UC Santa Barbara at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. There were also limited fans admitted to the stadium for the first […]
About 500 fans returned to Walter Pyramid on Saturday to watch Long Beach State men’s volleyball celebrate Senior Night with a sweep of Cal State Northridge 25-23, 25-23, 25-18. It is the 23rd consecutive home Big West Conference win for the Beach. The conference tournament is in Hawaii this week, and the Big West first-team […]
Long Beach State announced Monday that lower tiers in statewide COVID-19 pandemic monitoring means it can have limited in-person attendance at athletic events. They will be able to provide seating for households of up to four people in socially distanced pods six feet apart. The first priority for tickets will go to families of the […]
This 2021 high school softball season will try to pick up where it left off, and local fans won’t have to wait long to get a good look at the best teams. Moore League play starts Tuesday, April 13, with Lakewood hosting Wilson and Long Beach Poly taking on Millikan at Joe Rodgers. Wilson and […]
Shannon Haddad, Kellie White, Morgan Quinlan, Samantha Fowler and Sophia Fernandez proved they’re the best pitching staff in the Big West this year by combining for three wins with a 0.00 ERA and 27 strikeouts during the weekend series sweep at Cal State Northridge. The Beach (12-5, 8-1) outscored the Matadors 24-4 in the three […]
The Big West Conference basketball tournament in Las Vegas last week was a chance for Long Beach State men’s basketball to show it’s still relevant after a forgettable season, and the Beach succeeded admirably. LBSU (6-12) struggled to stay on the court all year because of COVID-19 pauses and injuries. The Beach also dropped most […]
It was a forgettable weekend on the hardwood for Long Beach State’s basketball teams, as the Beach went a combined 0-4 against Hawai’i. Every loss was a one-possession game, but LBSU ended up on the wrong end of the scoreline, losing by a combined 10 points in the four contests. Women’s Basketball After a 10-0 […]
While local high schools celebrate the return of on-campus athletics because of the rapid drop in COVID-19 cases, Long Beach City College and other local junior colleges are commiserating another loss. The presidents of the South Coast Conference Colleges unanimously decided on Thursday to suspend athletic competition for traditional spring sports in 2021. That means […]
I’m a calendar guy. Being a sportswriter means that nights and weekends are usually pretty full. That’s a problem for a father of two and someone who would like to maintain some semblance of a social life. People don’t usually schedule birthday parties for Tuesday mornings, for example, a time window I’m much more likely […]
Athletes, coaches, and families hoping for a return of football and many other high school sports got a huge boost on Friday with the release of new youth sports guidelines from the California Department of Public Health. In keeping with recent decisions by the state to remove “tier” considerations for the re-opening elementary schools in […]