JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio are back talking Long Beach sports as Moore League football gets underway this month while local youth sports teams celebrate national championhsips. We have interviews with coaches, parents and players from Shore Aquatics (15:00) and Beach FC (19:00).
The Shore 10-under girls’ water polo team traveled to Palo Alto last weekend where they won the 2018 Junior Olympics national championship, and they did it the Long Beach way. “We’re not the biggest team so we rely on our speed and awareness,” coach Brendan Patterson said. “We are defense first, and get teams on […]
Long Beach State’s international legacy is well documented. There has been a 49er in every Summer Olympics since the university was founded in 1949, and five more LBSU representatives are part of Team USA this year. LBSU women’s soccer coach Mauricio Ingrassia, water polo coach Gavin Arroyo, men’s volleyball assistant coach Nick MacRae and men’s […]
Tori Morrissey and Alexandra Massier both scored four goals for No. 17 Long Beach State in a 9-6 win UC Santa Barbara to start the Big West Tournament on Friday afternoon in Irvine. LBSU (12-13) jumped out to a 5-0 lead after the first quarter, and held a 6-3 advantage at halftime. The 49ers will […]
Long Beach State softball star Naomi Hernandez is on the short list for the Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award. She is one of 25 players in the running for the National Fastpich Coaches Association honor. Hernandez is hitting .400 with 15 doubles and three home runs for No. 18 LBSU. […]
The Long Beach State Dirtbags put together their best weekend performance of the season at Cal State Fullerton in nonconference action to win their second consecutive series. It is the first time LBSU (10-14) has won three straight road series at Fullerton since 1997-2000. The Dirtbags took the series with a 2-1 win on Sunday. […]
FROM LBSU REPORTS On the road No. 14 Long Beach State was unable to mount the comeback as the Beach fell to No. 4 UCLA 9-4 Saturday afternoon at Spieker Aquatics Center. Early in the first period both teams kept each other off the scoreboard, but UCLA broke through when Grace Reego scored to give […]
FROM LBSU REPORTS Long Beach State water polo head coach Gavin Arroyo will once again being representing the United States when he joins head coach Dejan Udovicic and the Men’s Senior National Team as an assistant coach when the team competes in two exhibition matches against Australia March 28 and March 30. With an extensive […]
The Long Beach State women’s water polo team celebrated senior night and scored timely goals in an 8-5 win over Bucknell on Thursday at Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. LBSU (9-9, 1-0) has won four consecutive games, and eight of the last nine. Sophomore Isabel Riely and senior Raney Remme each scored a team-high two goals. […]
Barry O’Dea was planning his own father’s funeral on a clear early-August evening last year when he heard that Wilson sophomore Camryn Krueger’s mother, Sarah, had died in a sudden accident. O’Dea, who had taken the Wilson girls’ water polo head coaching position in early June, drove straight to the Krueger house in Seal Beach […]