{"id":1892,"date":"2010-03-06T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-mvb-niners-win-fifth-straight\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:06:00","slug":"lbsu-mvb-niners-win-fifth-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-mvb-niners-win-fifth-straight","title":{"rendered":"LBSU MVB: Niners Win Fifth Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"'Trebuchet MS'\">The 49ers have been on a roll lately\u2014sometimes a road swing can either disrupt that kind of momentum, or speed it on.&nbsp; First on Friday night at Pacific, it looked like the former, as the Tigers took an extra-points first set, 33-31.&nbsp; But the 49ers rallied to win the next three straight, picking up a huge MPSF win that vaults them over Hawaii into sole possession of fourth place, behind Stanford, Northridge, and Pepperdine.&nbsp; They knocked off the Tigers by scores of 31-33, 30-25, 30-23, 30-26, in a total team effort that saw five players with double-digit kills.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"'Trebuchet MS'\">The 49ers defensive play at the net continued to dominate, with the team racking up 12 team blocks, to Pacific&#8217;s 7.&nbsp; <\/font><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"'Trebuchet MS'\">Dean Bittner finished with a team-high 14 kills, two aces, five digs and five blocks, and&nbsp;Antwain Aguillard added 13 kills and four blocks, continuing his unbelievable streak\u2014he hit .700+ again, which puts him at .523 on the season in his first year with the team.&nbsp; Tommy Pestolesi and Jim Baughman had 12 kills each and Dan Alexander finished with 10 kills. Long Beach State (9-6, 7-4 MPSF) finished with a team hitting percentage of .306 on 124 swings. &nbsp;Conor Eaton handed out 50 assists, while Kirk Francis led the 49ers defense with 12 digs. &nbsp;They held Pacific to no higher than .258 in any set following the first.<\/font><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"'Trebuchet MS'\">The 49ers travel to play Stanford Saturday night, as the Cardinal just moved into first place on Friday.<\/font><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><font face=\"'Trebuchet MS'\">From LBSU reports<\/font><o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dropping a narrow first set, the Niners rallied on the road to pick up a win against Pacific, jumping over Hawaii to take sole possession of fourth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}