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From LBSU reports<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Despite five goals from three 49er seniors, Long Beach State finished its 2008 campaign with a 13-9 loss to Cal on the concluding day of the MPSF Conference Tournament Sunday afternoon in Malibu, Calif.<\/span><\/p>\n Long Beach State (14-18, 2-9) met the California Golden Bears (19-9, 5-4) for the second time this season in their final game of the 2008 MPSF Tournament and the season. The first match-up between the two squads went into sudden death overtime, the Bears scoring five minutes into the sudden death period.<\/span><\/p>\n Sunday afternoon, defense was the name of the game for the first few minutes of the game, neither squad scoring until a Cal goal at 5:51. Neither team had trouble scoring after that, as the sides swapped goals for the rest of the quarter. Senior Justin Koeppen scored two for the Beach, and with :32 seconds left on the clock, Cal held a 4-2 lead. But with only three seconds to play in the first period, 49er senior Ash Blythen stepped up with a goal to cut Long Beach State’s deficit to one.<\/span><\/p>\n Tensions mounted in the second period for both LBSU and Cal; exclusions and fouls ran rampant on both sides of the pool. But the teams played through the frustration, Cal scoring three goals and Long Beach State scoring one, a goal from freshman Taylor Clute. Cal’s lead was 7-4 heading into halftime.<\/span><\/p>\n Long Beach State began the third period with a furious comeback—junior Jeff Greenwood scored back to back goals in the first two minutes of play to again pull within one. Aleksander Petrovic’s converted 5-meter penalty shot with 5:18 left in the period tied the game at 7. Two more Cal goals, one a 6-on-5, put the Bears up 10-8 at the end of the third.<\/span><\/p>\n Cal dominated the rest of the game, scoring three goals to Long Beach State’s one, a shot from Blythen, his second of the game. 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