This is our April showers brings June Flowers edition and we have best of the rest from the 2013 athletic year at Long Beach State. We start with the best team on campus that the NCAA overlooked Forty Niner softball.
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ASICS World Series, FIVB Grand Slam Volleyball Tourney to Invade Long Beach
The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) has announced that the U.S. will host the Grand Slam volleyball tournament for the first time in a decade–and it will be right here in Long Beach.
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Names and Numbers and Notes and Quotes All From Black Napkins
Notes on My Napkin time again, maybe for the duration of the summer sporting slumber. Disclaimer: If our info seems a little off kilter, it is likely because nowadays the caterers use those black napkins which makes our notes very hard to read.
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Highlanders Come Down From the Riverside For Three at the Beach
Location, location, location. At least that’s mantra for folks in the real estate game. UC Riverside, where the temps can be wickedly warm, trades it all for the sea breezes and big outfield of Blair.
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Pepp and the Beach: Objects in Your Baseball Mirror May Be Closer Than You Think
As different as they are–one large and inexpensive state university, one small and expensive private university–Pepperdine and Long Beach State seem to mirror each other at times at least this spring in baseball.
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This Week In LBSU Athletics: May 13, 2013
The week that was and will be in LBSU athletics.
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Back at Blair, the Beach Boys are Battling the Bows in a BWC Set
With a body of baseball work totaling 22-24, Long Beach State baseball has finally arrived home, to stay. For the first of seven home games, it will be the struggling Hawaii Rainbows who come in at 11-31 but are just a weekend away from a series win over Pacific.
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Alphabet Super From A to Z and Points in Between
When your inbox stack of facts and figures range from A to Z (Alabama, site of that Sand Volleyball championship to Zator, as in Hillary the, 10,000 meter star for the track team) it must be time for another session of the wildly (or mildly) popular Notes on My Napkin.
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This Week In LBSU Athletics: May 6, 2013
The week that was and will be in LBSU athletics.
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Juan Makes it Gone, Sabo Snufs the ‘Stangs and LMU Brings an Ace to Our Place
The usual script for baseball at Blair Field is good pitching. Cal Poly Sunday starter Bryan Granger came through but his bullpen let him down. LB Sunday starter freshman David Hill did not come through but while the homefolks waited for the offense to wake up his bullpen did.