This Week In LBSU Athletics: May 6, 2013 • Long Beach Post Sports

THIS WEEK

Tuesday, May 7

Baseball at Pepperdine | Malibu, Calif. | 3PM

Friday, May 10

Baseball vs. Hawai’i | Blair Field | 6PM
Track & Field at Big West Championship | Northridge, Calif. | All Day

Saturday, May 11

Sunday, May 12

Women’s Tennis vs. winner of UCLA/Army *if win on Saturday (NCAA 2nd Round) | Los Angeles Tennis Center (UCLA) | 12PM
Baseball vs. Hawai’i | Blair Field | 1PM

LAST WEEK

No. 2 Sand Volleyball (20-3)
at AVCA Sand Volleyball Championships
Won vs. No. 3 Florida State, 3-2
Won vs. No. 4 USC, 3-2
Won vs. No. 1 Pepperdine, 3-2
–Long Beach State captured the seventh team national championship in school history, and also became the first team to defeat Pepperdine in sand volleyball history, as the 49ers avenged last year’s title game loss.

Softball (35-20, 17-7 Big West)
Defeated UC Davis, 2-0
Defeated UC Davis, 6-1
Defeated UC Davis, 1-0 (8 innings)
–The 49ers swept UC Davis to wrap up conference play and clinched at least second-place in the Big West. Darian Tautalafua hit four RBI in game two, including two home runs, to break the single season RBI record at LBSU.

Baseball (21-24, 9-9 Big West)
Won vs. Loyola Marymount 3-1
Lost at No. 4 Cal State Fullerton, 3-2
Lost at No. 4 Cal State Fullerton, 2-1
Lost at No. 4 Cal State Fullerton, 9-4
–Long Beach State defeated LMU before being swept by No. 4 Cal State Fullerton.

Men’s Golf at Big West Conference Championship
–The 49ers concluded their season in fi fth-place (10 teams) at 30-over par (894). Senior Philip Chian led the way for LBSU tying for eighth at 5-over 221.

Track & Field
at Big West Multi-Event Championships
Decathlon – Garrett Demirjian, 2nd (7,296 points)
Heptathlon – Taylor Jackson, 3rd (4,693 points); Wendy Izquierdo, 11th (4,249 points)
–Juniors Garrett Demirjian and Taylor Jackson garnered all-conference honors for their top-three fi nishes in the decathlon and heptathlon at the Big West Championships.

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