Athletics is a lot about names and numbers, but sometimes objects in your rear view mirror are closer than you think.
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Casper Ware Named Big West Men’s Basketball Player of the Week
Senior Casper Ware has been named the Big West Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week after leading Long Beach State to a pair of wins at Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara last week.
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Men’s Basketball: Vikings Rally in Second Half to Beat LA Harbor, 74-70
Sophomore guard Raynard Tyler scored a team-high 17 points, including 14 in the second half, to help the Long Beach City College men’s basketball team complete a late-game rally and beat visiting Los Angeles Harbor College 74-70 on Wednesday night at the LBCC Hall of Champions Gym.
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LBCC Athletics to Support Coaches vs. Cancer with Event on Friday
Long Beach City College Athletics and the California Community College Men’s and Women’s Basketball Coaches Association have teamed up to support Coaches vs. Cancer with a great night of fundraising and awareness.
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Dust Plus – Home is Where the Wins Are and the Well Scribbled Napkin
The Geritol bottles had hardly been swept out of the Big Brown Music Machine section in the Pyramid when the Dust readership demanded that I begin ‘splaining the past and future in 49erville.
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Dust Plus – Niner Basketeers Looking for the M Word
You won’t see the listing on the game program you purchase on the way in to your seat, but the Niner hoops of the hardwood are desperately seeking new roster additions, just call ‘em Mr. of Ms. Momentum.
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Men’s Basketball: Long Beach pulls out 64-61 overtime win over Cerritos
Sophomore guard Raynard Tyler scored a game-high 19 points to help lead the Long Beach City College men’s basketball team to a 64-61 South Coast Conference win in overtime over visiting Cerritos College on Wednesday night at the Hall of Champions Gym.
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Women’s Basketball: Vikings let second-half lead slip in 52-44 loss to Cerritos
The No. 13 state-ranked Long Beach City College women’s basketball team lost its second straight contest, falling 52-44 to No. 12 state-ranked Cerritos College on Wednesday night at the LBCC Hall of Champions Gym.
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Dust Plus: The Year of Party Hearty with the Beach Boys and Girls
2012 should be a lively year at least until the Mayan melt down occurs in mid December. Dust Plus has been in the party mode since the crystal ball dropped on Dick Clark and this week should be more of the same. After all, you have undefeated (in conference) ladies and men’s basketball, the beginning of men’s volleyball, and fund and friend raisers for baseball.
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Spargo Sparks LBSU To Victory, Earns Weekly Honor
For the first time this season, a freshman has received Big West Women’s Basketball Player of the Week honors as Lauren Spargo snagged Long Beach State’s first award of the year.