{"id":3455,"date":"2009-08-16T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/today-lbsu-w-soccer-scrimmage-vs-azusa-pacific\/"},"modified":"2009-08-16T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T04:59:00","slug":"today-lbsu-w-soccer-scrimmage-vs-azusa-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/today-lbsu-w-soccer-scrimmage-vs-azusa-pacific","title":{"rendered":"Today @ LBSU: W. Soccer Scrimmage vs. Azusa Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today on George Allen Field at 5pm<\/strong>, Long Beach State will take on Azusa Pacific in what is becoming their annual pre-season scrimmage. \u00a0A year after making it to the NCAA’s for the first time in school history with eight senior starters, coach Mauricio Ingrassia has a very young team to\u00a0pilot\u00a0through a very demanding schedule.<\/p>\n

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Below is a conversation with coach Ingrassia about the 2009 season…\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Here are 3 things to keep in mind today during the scrimmage…<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. Really, How Big Are Liz Ramos’ Shoes?<\/strong><\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Kaitlyn Gustaves (Jr.), Nicoline Jorgensen (So.), Emily Kingsborough (So.) and Kelsey Welton-Baldwin (Fr.) all wear the long-sleeve goalie jersey, but only one will have the shot to fill in for one of the best goalies in school history. \u00a0Ingrassia says the three upperclassman will each play today, and he’ll make a decision in the coming week.<\/p>\n

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2. It All Happens In The Middle<\/strong><\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Some of the players Ingrassia is most impressed with are playing the midfield, like Shawna Gordon and transfer Karina Camacho. \u00a0They won’t play too much in the scrimmage, but they will\u00a0definitely\u00a0play together because the coaching staff really wants to see them cement a bond on the pitch.<\/p>\n

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3. \u00a00-0 Probably Won’t Cut It All The Time<\/strong><\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 This is an Ingrassia coached team, so you know the defense will be solid, but last year the 49ers had trouble scoring,\u00a0especially\u00a0against the top talent. \u00a0They were in almost every game, but the breaks didn’t seem to go their way around the goal mouth. \u00a0Keep an eye on speedy junior Kristen Kiefer who will see more time on the wing this season.<\/p>\n

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On the last practice day before their scrimmage vs. Azusa Pacific, JJ and Mike talked to Long Beach State women’s soccer coach Mauricio Ingrassia about his young team and expectations a year after going to the NCAA’s for the first time in school history.<\/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-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}