In a classic Jim Healy moment the late sports radio king caught the silver tongued Tommy Lasorda exhorting that “this job is not this (expletive deleted) easy!” F-bombs aside, the week that was in 49er-ville is evidence that sports writing is not easy.
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LBCC: Men’s & Women’s Aquatics
The Long Beach City College men’s swimming & diving team needed a win in the final event of the 2012 South Coast Conference Championships and got just that to finish tied for first place and earn a co-conference championship with Chaffey College on Saturday at Pasadena City College.
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LBCC Men’s Volleyball State Champions
Tournament most valuable player Rob McLean totaled 15 kills and five blocks to help lead Long Beach City College to a 3-1 (25-22, 23-25, 25-22, 26-24) win over Orange Coast College in the championship final of the 2012 California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Men’s Volleyball State Championship on Saturday night at LBCC’s Hall of Champions Gym.
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LBCC downs Irvine Valley 3-1 to Reserve Spot in State Final
Rob McLean and Jo’Lon Clark posted 16 kills to help lead host Long Beach City College to a 3-1 win over Irvine Valley College in Semifinal #2 of the 2012 California Community College Athletic Association Men’s Volleyball State Championship on Thursday night. Long Beach, champions of the Western State Conference, won the match by scores of 25-20, 24-26, 25-21, 25-19 to advance to Saturday’s state championship final match at 7:00pm against Orange Coast College.
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Playing the Game with Bats, Balls, Gloves, and Clipboards: Is it Buckley vs. Gillespie?
Weekends for second year head Coach Troy Buckley are like entering a time machine. Last week’s bus was unloaded by Santa Barbara’s Andrew Checketts with his half season of head coaching experience. This week, the dean of Big West coaches Mike Gillespie brings his battle- scarred but very talented Anteaters to Blair with 25 head coaching years (20 at USC, five at Irvine).
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The Sporting Road Winds All Around the Town — Left and Right Turns
A week in the life of LBSU athletics had the 49er faithful all over the landscape, from Grand Prix rooftops with those nifty pigs in a blanket to the sands of volleyball, the dripped than dried Blair Field, the never wet women’s tennis and the easy riders on that 12 hour softball bus to UC Davis.
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A Long Day, Night, and Short Sunday: Dirtbags Win Three and Find First Place
Sunshine was what the fandom desired on a Saturday at Blair Field. The buckets of rain that flattened everybody on Friday was replaced by cool but pleasant weather on Saturday. For UCSB, riding high this season, it was a match with traditional power Long Beach. You could almost see the blood rushing into the players’ brains, except that for shortstop Matt Duffy is was blood in the dugout.
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This Week In LBSU Athletics, April 16
This Week In LBSU Athletics
Your weekly re-cap of all CSULB athletic happenings, both nationwide and locally.
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They Hit, They Pitch, and Now These Gauchos Want to Kick Sand on the Beach
Santa Barbara baseball has languished outside of the Big West trophy room, and frankly, they seldom get the attention of the top dogs—Fullerton, Irvine, Long Beach and even Riverside. This year under new skipper Andrew Checketts the Gauchos (17-14, 4-2) are trying to fix that image.