NCAA Women’s Basketball: Long Beach State vs. UC Santa Barbara Long Beach State improved to 9-0 in Big West play with a 61-49 win over visiting UC Santa Barbara on Friday night.For more coverage of all Long Beach sports,… Support The562.org
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Long Beach State Women Continue Historic Start With UCSB Win
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team continued its excellent start to the season with a strong defensive win over UC Santa Barbara, 61-49. The Beach was without its most consistent offensive player in Naomi Hunt and struggled from the field, but played excellent defense to secure the win. “You’re not going to put the […]
PHOTOS: Long Beach State vs. UC Santa Barbara Women’s Basketball
We’ve got some great photos from the game taken by photographer Stephen Dachman.
LBSU Notebook: Women’s Hoops Remains Unbeaten Atop Big West
It took about seven-and-a-half minutes for Long Beach State’s women’s basketball team to shake off the rust from a three-week hiatus, but once the Beach found its groove, the results were the same: wins. LBSU picked up a pair of victories last weekend over new Big West rival UC San Diego, improving to 9-1 overall […]
Basketball: Long Beach State Women Win Thriller At UCSD
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team has had a relatively smooth road to the top of the Big West conference. The team started 6-0 in league play and outscored their opponents by 70 points in those wins. Friday night at UC San Diego the Beach found themselves trailing by two with less than a […]
Feature: Long Beach State’s Naomi Hunt Grateful To Be Back On Court
The start of the current NCAA women’s basketball season was delayed by about a month due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But if you’d been waiting for nearly two years to play a competitive basketball game, what’s a few more weeks? That was the situation for Long Beach State’s Naomi Hunt, who missed all of […]
Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Falls At Cal Baptist
Long Beach State men’s basketball traveled to Cal Baptist on Saturday for the first game in two weeks but fell 96-75 in Riverside. The nonconference matchup was scheduled quickly after the Beach had their games cancelled last weekend due to false-positive COVID-19 tests. BOX SCORE LBSU (3-5, 2-2) Michael Carter III returned from injury and […]
Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Back To Practice
Just like the women’s team before them on Monday, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team was cleared to return to practice today. The Beach had three false-positive COVID-19 antigen tests on Friday, but received the necessary negative PCR results today to avoid a second shutdown this season. The first one came in December when […]
Long Beach State Women’s Basketball Returns To Practice
That sound you heard today was a collective sigh of relief. The Long Beach State women’s basketball program was back on the Walter Pyramid court today for practice just three days after having their historic season was put on pause. The Beach (7-1, 6-0) had a positive COVID-19 test come back on Friday from someone […]
OBITUARY FEATURE: James Hardy, Long Beach Legend
Story by Earl Williams NOTE: Earl Williams is a longtime sportswriter who worked at the Press-Telegram during its glory years under editor Jim McCormack. He’s provided an expanded obituary on Long Beach hoops legend James Hardy–thank you to Earl and to Jim for making the connection. Click here to read our obituary from last week. […]