The Long Beach City College softball team put up seven runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on its way to a 9-1, five-inning win over visiting Los Angeles Mission College on Tuesday in the Vikings’ 2012 home opener.

Today’s word of the weekend is “exhale”. And we can need a full dinner napkin to hold all of our notes from a weekend of mostly Ws.

There was a lot of chatter around town that the 49ers would play undefeated Murray State in their 10th Annual Sears BracketBusters basketball game, an interesting idea since the current LBSU president came here from the presidency of Murray State. Instead the destination is one that the baseball team would love to have, Omaha, Nebraska.

The World Dodgeball Society (WDS), the “premier co-ed sports and social organization based on nostalgia and camp of the 80s,” kicks off their first 2012 season with an open gym play time Tuesday January 31st at 8:00pm; the official league will start the week after on February 7th.

The Long Beach City College men’s volleyball team compiled a 5-1 tournament record to finish in third place out of nine teams at the LBCC Invitational on Sunday.

The Long Beach City College softball team continued its impressive start of the season on opening weekend as the Vikings picked up another pair of wins on Saturday to advance to Sunday’s semifinals of the Glendale College tournament.

Five Vikings scored in double-figures with freshman guard Kristien Owens leading with 20 points, as the Long Beach City College men’s basketball team rolled to a 113-81 rout over visiting El Camino College Compton Center on Friday night at the LBCC Hall of Champions Gym.

The No. 15 state-ranked Long Beach City College women’s basketball team won its sixth consecutive game after defeating visiting El Camino College Compton Center 82-34 in a South Coast Conference contest at the LBCC Hall of Champions Gym on Friday.

The United States Youth Volleyball League (USYVL) is in need of a Volleyball Instructor (Clinician) for the upcoming Spring 2012 Season at Long Beach Los Altos Park.

The 2012 Long Beach City College softball season will get underway this weekend, as the Vikings face San Bernardino Valley College in their season-opener on Friday (Jan 27) at the Glendale College tournament.