{"id":4176,"date":"2009-04-14T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-s-dan-o-goes-pow\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T06:50:00","slug":"lbsu-s-dan-o-goes-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-s-dan-o-goes-pow","title":{"rendered":"LBSU\u2019s Dan-O Goes POW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo3160544.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>     <!--StartFragment-->         <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The conference has announced that Long Beach State men&rsquo;s  volleyball junior Dan Alexander has been named the Mountain Pacific Sports  Federation Co-Player of the Week after helping Long Beach State to a pair of  wins last weekend, including an upset of No. 3 Cal State Northridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Alexander finished the week with a .531 hitting percentage,  with 20 kills on 32 swings, 12 blocks and four service aces.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>In the upset of CSUN that allowed The  Beach to clinch a MPSF Tournament berth, the middle blocker hit .467 with 10  kills on 15 swings while also recording six blocks and two service aces.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>He was even better in Friday night&rsquo;s  win over UC Santa Barbara, hitting .588 with 10 kills on 17 swings.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>He finished that match with six blocks,  two service aces and four digs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Alexander is the second 49er to earn MPSF Co-Player of the  Week honors this year, joining Dean Bittner.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The award was the first player of the week honor of  Alexander&rsquo;s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">From LBSU reports<\/span><\/p>\n<p>         <!--EndFragment-->                      <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">  body {  \tbackground: #FFF;  }  <\/style>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in his career, Dan Alexander was named MPSF player of the week.<\/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-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","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=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}