{"id":2632,"date":"2009-12-02T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-mvb-alumni-game\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T06:10:00","slug":"lbsu-mvb-alumni-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-mvb-alumni-game","title":{"rendered":"LBSU MVB Alumni Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial; font-size:10pt; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; \"><\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach State men&#8217;s volleyball team will kick off its much anticipated season this Sunday in the &#8216;Myd with the team&#8217;s annual Randy Sandefur Alumni Game. The game starts at 2pm and if you are reading this, you can get involved one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>The alumni will battle this year&#8217;s 49er team in a best two out of three match followed by the ever popular and always entertaining alumni vs. alumni game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The list of returning players keeps growing every day,&#8221; interim head coach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-volley\/mtt\/read_andy00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \">Andy Read<\/a>\u00a0said. &#8220;So it looks like it is going to be another great turnout and a day fans of 49er men&#8217;s volleyball won&#8217;t want to miss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The returning LBSU team will be highlighted by returning first-team All-America pick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-volley\/mtt\/bittner_dean00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dean Bitter<\/a>, a candidate for national player of the year in 2010. The Beach also returns 2008 first-team All-American\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-volley\/mtt\/alexander_dan00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \">Dan Alexander<\/a>, as well as starters\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-volley\/mtt\/klipsch_mike00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \">Mike Klipsch<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-volley\/mtt\/baughman_jim00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \">Jim Baughman<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-volley\/mtt\/pestolesi_tommy00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \">Tommy Pestolesi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-volley\/mtt\/friend_kyle00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \">Kyle Friend<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-volley\/mtt\/riley_josh00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \">Josh Riley<\/a>. A number of 49er newcomers round out the roster and should contribute to what should be a very successful LBSU team.<\/p>\n<p>Alumni should fill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/auto_pdf\/p_hotos\/s_chools\/lbst\/sports\/m-volley\/auto_pdf\/weekly-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this .pdf <\/a>and return it to Scott Lane (slane@csulb.edu) before Sunday&#8217;s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Reports From LBSU<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LBSU men&#8217;s volleyball will kick off a much anticipated season this Sunday at 2pm in the &#8216;Myd with the team&#8217;s annual Randy Sandefur Alumni Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}