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Long Beach State women’s soccer celebrate senior forward Ashley Gonzales first goal of the match.

The 49ers went on to defeat the Matadors 3-1.

24 Hour Climathon produces innovative ideas page 3

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CITY COUNCIL

City council gives update on lab aiming to break the incarceration cycle for repeat offenders The council was provided with an update on the Justice Lab, a program that helps residents get out of the criminal justice system and back on track with their lives. The program was launched in January 2018 and went through a pilot period to determine the program’s potential for success.

Alma Castro, project manager for the Justice Lab, explained how their team conducted a people-focused and data-driven analysis in 2017 to understand the experience of individuals who frequently interact with law enforcement for low-level offenses.

“After analyzing over 100,000 offenses in Long Beach during a five year period, the ‘i-team’ determined that 85 percent of repeat offenses are not serious crimes, or rather low-level misde-

meanor offenses,” Castro said.

The Justice Lab has eight initiatives designed to help break the cycle of incarceration, including: a multi-disciplinary Team, an in-jail clinician, the Long Beach Government User Integrated Diversion Enhancement System, a data sharing agreement, a data warehouse and the Long Beach State Rising Scholars Education Lab. The LBSU Rising Scholars Education Lab is a program launched by students who were formerly incarcerated and believe higher education is a key to successfully diverting individuals out of the criminal justice system and down a better path.

Irene Sotelo, a LBSU student, vice president and co-founder of the program, was formerly incarcerated and

voiced her support for the program.

“I believe education is a great step to help those [people] not return to prison or jail,” she said. “I’ve been in and out of the system since I was 12, and now I’m already graduating with my master’s to help those that are getting out of prison.”

The Justice Lab received over $1 million in allocated funds from The Laura and John Arnold Foundation to support these initiatives. The 2019 fiscal year budget for the Justice Lab includes $100,000 of one-time funds in the General Fund in the Police Department to extend jail clinician services. The motion to proceed with this program passed 8-0.

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ENVIRONMENT

Teams at Climathon work ‘til dawn at LBSU 24-hour hackathon teams create new sustainable housing solutions within Long Beach.

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he walls were plastered with water level prediction maps, whiteboards were covered with mapping diagrams and tapping sounds indicated the focused coding of climate hackathon participants at the second annual 24-hour hackathon “Climathon.”

The hackathon took place from Friday to Saturday in the Long Beach State Duncan Anderson Design Gallery. Hackathons usually consist of groups competing to finish projects within a limited time period.

This year’s theme “sustainable housing” inspired projects ranging from carbon production phone applications to in-home electricity conservation devices.

The hackathon was put on by The Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, lead by director Wade Martin.

“Housing is always a challenge in Southern California, particularly in Long Beach,” Martin said. “As the climate changes, having excessive heat days over 95 degrees, the challenge has become even more acute, what with storm surges and sea level rise.”

Unlike other hackathons, teams were not predetermined. Students and community members came to the event and pitched their ideas, which were then selected based on development potential.

One team, surrounded by sticky notes, worked diligently on an app to help people measure their personal carbon production.

“A person can figure out how much carbon their lifestyle produces. When they see that visually [they will] maybe see a trend over a period of time,” said retired aerospace engineer Ray Manning. “The first step in reducing your carbon output is to know where you stand in the first place.”

Manning’s team consisted of three developers, two marketers and himself, all of whom had been strangers at the beginning of the night. He said he came prepared with a “skeleton model” of the app, which took him eight hours to code.

“One of my team members is a professional developer. He’s been over there doing all the coding, with a number of other developers chipping in,” Manning said.

“When people are passionate or enthused

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Climathon participants work on blueprinting a “tiny home” project to facilitate sustainable housing.

about doing something, sleep is not that big of a deal.”

A few rooms away, a group of students filled entire chalkboards with drawings of switchboards and electrical plans. They devised a plan to eliminate standby, or “vampire,” energy using a wireless household device. “‘Vampire’ is a term that’s used for electronic devices that suck power out when you don’t think they’re sucking power out of your house,” senior mechanical engineer Matthew Donoghue said. “Everything you have plugged in that you don’t want to think about, that you don’t want to bother with, adds up over time.”

He explained that a computer on sleep mode uses about 65 watts of energy. If left on sleep mode for an entire year, the “vampire energy” would cost $99.45, Donoghue said. This number represents one example, but instances of vampire energy are extremely common.

“That’s a lot of energy. That’s a lot of fuel

that’s consumed. That’s a lot of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. That’s a lot of oil dependence. That’s a lot of planning for infrastructure and blackout hours because of the stuff that’s left plugged in,” Donoghue said. “At the end of the day it’s something that’s not addressed and because it’s not, it’s cumulatively making a really big impact.”

To create the device, he teamed up with senior computer science major Caitlin Rubia, who was in charge of electronic interface.

“My best contribution would be coming up with how everything could connect wirelessly,” Rubia said. “One of the issues we’re encountering is that housing or apartments are already prebuilt. We don’t want to have to tear things down; that does cost more money.”

Long Beach was the first city in the United States to participate in the event, which takes place in hundreds of cities around the world, Martin said.

Participants were in communication with

Zurich, Switzerland throughout the night, where another Climathon was held.

“We showed teams here what teams in Europe are doing, what the rest of the world is looking at [and] what kind of challenges they face,” Martin said. “This gives them the perspective, ‘Oh, that’s what people in Zurich are looking at.’ It’s not so different than what we’re interested in.”

Despite teams working on “sustainable housing” within Long Beach, cities all over the world used the theme to create combative solutions to climate change.

“The challenge is where homes are located and which communities are affected,” Martin said. “It’s a significant challenge that the city is facing. It does especially affect Long Beach, that’s what all the maps are showing here, but it’s not unique to Long Beach.”

The Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship will hold another competition in the spring called The Innovation Challenge, which offers $10,000 in seed funding for the winning team.

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CLIMATE

By Suzane Jlelati

President Conoley introduces new sustainability commission

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With the new Imagine Beach 2030 initiative commencing in less than a month, university officials are looking at ways to increase sustainable usage on campus, one way being the creation of the Presidential Commission on Sustainability.

The commission’s role will be to help evaluate new approaches to enhance climate resilience, work with faculty to integrate sustainability into classes, mount public information campaigns and sponsor events that showcase current and future sustainability measures, according to President Jane Close Conoley.

Wetlands ecology professor Christine Whitcraft said this commission will serve as

an opportunity to elevate the profile of sustainability on campus. It will provide leadership for other university programs and will not replace the organizations that promote sustainability, such as Environmental Science & Policy club and Sustain U. There was the Sustainability Task Force which had its first meeting in April 2011 and its final meeting in March 2017. Some of the previous members of the Sustainability Task Force will be part of this new Presidential Commission. Conoley will serve as the convener and faculty, staff, students and community members will also serve on the commission, with Whitcraft as interim chair.

Nominations and elections for new members will be held in spring 2019.

No other California State University has a similar commission, according to Conoley, but President Dianne F. Harrison from Cal State University, Northridge is very active in

sustainability efforts nationwide.

Although the creation of this commission isn’t officially part of the Imagine Beach 2030 initiative, Conoley said that sustainability efforts should be recognized beyond the time frame.

“I think we must imagine and plan for a future in which we are challenged with water and energy shortages, toxins in the air, compromised soil and oceans, and threats to all of the Earth’s species including us,” Conoley said.

The first interim meeting was on Oct. 24 to figure out the details and logistics of the commission.

“Having a presidential commission conveys the message that sustainability is not housed in any particular field or department but instead is a lens through which we view all activities – individual and university scale activities,” Whitcraft said.

CRIME

High-end bike thefts and a misunderstanding

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U-lock broken

Long Beach State police responded to a call in the University Student Union Oct. 23 when a student called to report their bike had been stolen from the bike racks located at the west wing next to the escalators.

The bike, which was described as a “light blue Huffy Cruiser with a black basket,” was locked with a u-lock on the bike rack, but it was successfully broken by the thief, according to UPD Lt. Richard Goodwin.

Although u-locks are the most advocated by police, there has been a trend of bike thefts even with those using the lock.

They’re just preaching

A concerned parent called campus police Oct. 22 to report two men wearing grey sweatshirts, one carrying a messenger bag, stopping students outside of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

“The concerned parent thinks these two men should not be approaching students,” Goodwin said. “She did not speak to them directly nor did she look what they were soliciting for, but she saw students walking away and saying they didn’t have time to listen to their sales pitch.”

One of the sergeants responded to the situation and found the two men were simply preaching the Bible to those nearby. Police did not issue citations to them.

Suspicious character

Police responded to a call from a female student by the West Turnaround at 2 a.m Oct. 21 when she reported that she and a friend came across a man around 12:30 a.m. who claimed he was killing “ppl” around campus, according to the report from Goodwin.

The man, described as a Hispanic male in his 30s wearing a hoodie and blue pants and carrying a large stick, made comments that he was heading to the Walter Pyramid and was going to jump off of a building.

The student asked not to make contact, so officers did not meet up with her and instead checked the areas of the upper campus, the Pyramid and the quad, but the man wasn’t found.

Grand theft bicycle

Three bike thefts were reported last week on campus, but two of the bikes were valued high enough to be labelled as grand thefts. The first, which occurred on Oct. 19, was stolen from the Liberal Arts 5 building racks sometime between 10 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. after the student locked their electric bike with a cable lock.

The bike, which is valued at $1,100 and registered with campus police, was stolen after the cable lock was cut by the thief.

The second, which occurred sometime between 12-3 p.m. at the Human Services and Design building, was a Trek FX 7.7 Carbon bike stolen from the bike racks located outside.

The bike was valued at $3,000.

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Thousands of corgis unleashed in Huntington Beach HANNAH GETAHUN | Daily 49er

1,200 stubby-legged furry friends gathered for Fall Corgi Beach Day to enjoy the sand and sun.

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waths of exuberant corgis clumsily stumbled over heaps of sand at the Huntington Dog Beach Saturday to celebrate the 2018 Fall Corgi Beach Day. A sea of corgis of all shapes and sizes, along with corgi enthusiasts, could be seen a half a mile up and down the coast of the foggy beach.

Kelly McLemore, who founded the Socal Corgi Beach Nation with her husband Dan, started the corgi beach days in an attempt to find corgi friends for her dog, Mr. Pickles.

The event began with only 15 people in the fall of 2012.

“From 15 people to 1,500, it has grown crazy in the past few years,” Kelly said. “We didn’t have vendors before.

[Now], we have vendors and food trucks.”

SoCal Corgi Beach Nation has been hosting the beach day at Huntington Dog Beach for years and has drawn in a record-breaking 1,200 corgis for the event.

“I think they are huge on social media … so people want to be around them,” Kelly said. “They’re cute … big dogs with little legs.”

Max, left, a Corgi from Irvine, and his owners Jimmy Mark and Amy Mark (siblings) enjoy Corgi Beach day at Huntington Dog Beach. Benji, right, with his owner Abel Nuñez snagged first place on Saturday for the best costume contest.

Owners proudly displayed their pets, some donning vibrant rocket ship costumes and others wearing rainbow tutus. While Corgis were the stars of the day, all pets, even unconventional ones, were invited to enjoy the day.

Gabi the goat, who traveled from Hemet, California with her owner Jennifer Inman, could not escape the reach of excited attendees waiting for a selfie.

Events at the Corgi Beach Day included a limbo contest, a Halloween costume contest and a contest for the corgi with the best “momo,” the Japanese word for corgi butt.

The Halloween contest, arguably one of the most popular contests of the day, had Corgis lined up like runway models as thrilled audience members cheered on to select the most stylish dog.

Abel Nuñez and his dog Benji, who sported a Speed Racer costume, competed against a horde of costumed corgis to claim best dressed. This is their second time coming in first for a Corgi costume contest.

“I knew Speed Racer for a long time,” said Nuñez, who won first place in the costume contest at the SoCal Corgi Nationals. “The car is very iconic, so I wanted to try to do it. It [would’ve been] funny if [Benji] did the same pose as Speed Racer.”

The event was sponsored by ZippyPaws dog toys and pet store chain Healthy Spot, who has supported the Corgi Beach Days for the past two years.

“We love the Corgi Nation,” said Meredith Carruthers, community marketing assistant for Healthy Spot. “They’re so much fun to work with … but also we want to help every dog. We want to give them the best products.”

Healthy Spot, along with a myriad of other vendors and food trucks, set up shop on the sand to sell various corgi memorabilia such as corgi carrying totes and plushies. The Healthy Spot Flea market donated 100 percent of its proceeds to Queen’s Best, the self-proclaimed “stumpy dog rescue,” for corgis with developmental and behavioral issues.

The official beach day concluded at 3 p.m. but stragglers could still be seen running along the beach and playing with their furry friends.

Others decided that after a long day of playing ball, it was time to leave. Nancy Quam-Wickham, a history professor at Long Beach State who came with her dog Zephyr, said she plans on coming back to the beach day next year.

“As long as [Zephyr] is with me, we’ll come,” Quam-Wickham said.

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Wig snatching Ho House Halloween Drag Show DELANEY TRAN | Daily 49er

Juicy Bites, first-time performer at Hamburger Mary’s, performing at the monthly Ho House drag show Saturday night.

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he booming music and cheering crowd flashing dollar bills filled the room as drag queens donned in flamboyant wigs and dramatic makeup performed. Hamburger Mary’s in Long Beach decorated for Halloween with orange and black fabric strewn across the ceiling and swirling disco balls glittering the room in honor of its monthly Ho House show Saturday night.

The show is organized by drag queen Wendy Ho on the fourth Saturday of every month. It was hosted by Psycadella Facade who started the night off with a lip-sync of “Get the Party Started” by P!nk. For any newcomers, she reviewed some ground rules for any drag show.

“If you like what you see, give the bitch a dollar,” Psycadella Facade said. “If you don’t like what you see, give the bitch a dollar.”

The show had six queens performing lip syncs of wellknown songs while sashaying up-close to audience members who cheered, sang along and flashed Washingtons.

Jewel Leah Mykals danced and lip-synced to a soundtrack full of laughing. Her soulful rendition of Jennifer Holliday’s “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” brought audience

The monthly show features drag queens lipsyncing and sashaying within the audience.

members to their feet as they rained dollars on her while she reached the high notes.

“When you take them to church, they really love it,” Mykals said.

Her love of makeup and hair has become a career as a drag queen for four years now. Mykals said that one Halloween she got put into drag and “that is where it all began.”

The restaurant is best known for their customizable burgers along with the live entertainment of drag queens. Customers can choose from exotic burger meat such as ostrich, buffalo or kobe (American wagyu).

For guests ages 21 and older, a classic Mary’s Leg glass to sip signature drinks such as Classic Long Island, Electric Lemonade or Tokyo Tea makes for a fun souvenir to take home. The leg cups stands on a platform wearing mesh stockings and stiletto heels with sizes of 20 oz. or 60 oz.

Chatter, alcohol and the sweet scent of diner food filled the room with a full house of more than 50 guests ages 18 and older. Mel Giddens is a frequent customer at Hamburger Mary’s and said her favorite performance was from first-time performer Juicy Bites who came out dancing in a flurry of arm and leg movements.

“I loved it. I’ve been here four times already and this time we celebrated a birthday,” Giddens said.

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Race contestant, strode down the steps in a red catsuit to the center stage where she snatched off her wig and revealed a different one underneath. Her lip sync of “White Girl” by Trina had two cartwheels, one of which went into a side split that resulted in the eruption of cheers and applause from the audience.

Drag queen Anne Dromeda began the night with “Turn Me On” by David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj.

She gracefully walked down the steps in a long white gown with a Frankenstein’s wife wig. She quickly removed the long exterior fabric to unveil a puffy, short skirt costume for her to easily strut around the room.

Her second performance of the night was to Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” wearing a bedazzled claw hand.

“I wish my hat would’ve stayed on, but sometimes that just doesn’t happen,” Dromeda said. “But overall a good show, a good crowd. Nothing’s worse than when you are walking into a quiet room, so any noise is good.”

Gozi Anyanwu, a first time attendee, was celebrating her birthday with Giddens and her family.

“It was phenomenal. My friend Mel here told me so many times,” Anyanwu said. “ I was also with my 70-year-old mother and she had a blast. I’m so glad we made it tonight, it was so much fun.”

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COSTUME

By Tashfina Rahman

tures into overdone tropes.

Cultural appropriation also often occurs when people try to portray celebrities or characters of different races. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with dressing up as your favorite character from a TV show just because they’re a different race. The key is in your execution.

For example, if you’re dressing up as someone who has a darker skin tone than you, please do not for any reason try to create this skin tone on yourself using makeup. This is worse than cultural appropriation and often falls under the categories of black or brown face, which is very racist.

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alloween is my favorite holiday.

It’s the one day when we can be anything we want. It allows us to live our wildest fantasies, explore new identities and express ourselves through ridiculous clothes, makeup and wigs.

Unfortunately, it’s also often an excuse for people to wear offensive and insensitive costumes, many of which fall in the category of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is the act of using elements of someone else’s culture without their permission, often for the purpose of fashion or in this case, a Halloween costume.

We see the cultural appropriation debate throughout the year, like when a Kardashian sports cornrows or when there’s a flurry of inappropriate headdresses and cultural accessories ignorantly worn by people at Coachella.

The debate really heats up during Halloween. Some may argue that our society has become too politically correct and turned a fun holiday into a political battleground. But, at its core, cultural appropriation is not a political debate or a liberal tactic to take away self expression.

Cultural appropriation is about mockery, misunderstanding and the erasure of minority cultures.

The first problem with cultural appropriation is that it’s often rooted in disrespect. Often times, when someone wears a costume that portrays another culture or race, it has been created on the basis of grotesque stereotypes. For example, Native American costumes are typically whitewashed caricatures of what indigenous clothing actually is.

Cultural appropriation also erases the experiences that minorities live with every day. You likely don’t understand the oppression, history or experiences associated with a culture you don’t belong to.

Many people are mocked or bullied growing up because of their culture’s food, clothing and traditions. In the article “Cultural Appropriation at Halloween: My Culture is Not a Costume” by Jessica Andrews for Teen Vogue, women of various identities unpacked this

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Blackface is one of many “costumes” that falls under the highly insensitive act of cultural appropriation, which is a mockery of minority cultures.

Halloween is no excuse for cultural appropriation Let’s leave the Native American headdresses, kimonos and giant sombreros at home this year. issue, speaking about their experiences being mocked for their afros or their hijabs.

As a Bangladeshi woman, I can also attest to this. Growing up, I saw many television shows or peers mock the “dots” that South Asian women wear on their foreheads. Now, I see celebrities like Kendall Jenner wearing those same dots, known as bindis, to music festivals as a fashion statement. Americans can’t make fun of minority traditions and then later use them as part of a Halloween

costume. It’s offensive, insensitive and erases the real struggles that people of color face.

It’s important not to confuse cultural appropriation and appreciation. Cultural appreciation can be trying a Japanese recipe at home, using an Italian espresso machine or wearing shoes you bought in Mexico. Cultural appreciation is respectfully borrowing and learning from a culture, which is always okay.

Now the question becomes what types of costumes you shouldn’t

wear this Halloween. Don’t wear a costume that is just another culture or race. If you roll up to Party City and the costume description is just a race or culture, such as “Native American girl” or “Egyptian queen,” it’s safe to say you should put that back on the shelf.

Other examples of these costumes could be a geisha, a Bollywood actress or anything involving a mustache with a sombrero.

These costumes, while appearing playful and lighthearted, usually just flatten the people of these cul-

Someone’s culture is not your costume.

Another example is when people wear African-American hairstyles, such as cornrows, afros, box braids or dreadlocks. Some people may say a hairstyle doesn’t belong to a particular culture, but African Americans have faced stigmatization and ridicule surrounding their hair throughout history from the media and society. We shouldn’t trivialize their struggles by wearing these hairstyles as part of our costumes.

The bottom line is there’s no reason for cultural appropriation.

Someone’s culture is not your costume. It’s a part of a real person’s identity that they carry it with them every single day, not just when it’s convenient or fashionable.

Thanks to the memes, TV shows, movies and political debauchery that 2018 brought us, there are thousands of creative, funny and culturally relevant costumes you can come up with or purchase at a store. You can still turn heads and win that costume contest without offending anyone or demeaning their culture.

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49ers return from road trip winless

Joe Fryer finishes fourth in final invitational of the year

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he Long Beach State men’s golf team finished in fourth place with a team score of 835 (-17) in the Visit Stockton Pacific Invitational Saturday.

Senior Joe Fryer was the 49ers top performer, finishing in fourth to earn his tenth career top five finish. Fryer was 2-under on Saturday with a round of 69 to finish at 10-under for the weekend. The highlight of his weekend came when he shot a 6-under 65.

Long Beach State’s fourth-place finish represents its best of the season, and a fourth straight top 10 finish to begin the campaign.

Senior Patrick Pockels shot three straight

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Senior Joe Fryer tees off at the Visit Stockton Pacific Invitational Saturday.

Fryer led the 49ers to fourth place.

1-under rounds of 70 to finish in a tie for 19th place.

Junior Hunter Epson had a new career high of 66, and his last 18 was highlighted by an eagle on the par-5 16th, helping him to a 4-under back nine on Saturday.

This was Long Beach’s final competition in 2018, and will return to the course at the Arizona Intercollegiate Jan. 28-29.

Long Beach State women’s volleyball team was unable to pull of an upset during its road trip, and dropped two matches to UC Davis and UC Irvine. The losses dig a deeper hole for the team as Long Beach (13-12, 5-7 Big West) enters a three-game losing streak and fights to secure a positive record.

The 49ers had three players reach double figures in kills against Irvine (14-9, 6-5 Big West) with freshman outside hitter Kashauna Williams leading with 12 and senior outside hitters Emma Kirst and Tyler Spriggs, each recording 11. The offensive effort was not enough to push the 49ers past the Aggies’ aggressive defense, as they held the 49ers to .212 hitting. The Aggies bullied the 49ers early on with three

straight points and held that dominant play throughout the match.

Long Beach also committed 20 errors compared to Davis’ 12, which contributed to the 17-25, 25-21, 18-25, 1425 loss.

The team had to regroup for another match two days later against UC Irvine (14-8, 8-2 Big West) for the black and blue rivalry match, where they were again only able to take one set in a 2225, 25-16, 19-25, 13-25 loss.

The Anteaters had a well rounded offense this time around, and featured three players in double figures for kills.

The 49ers only had two players in double figures, with junior outside hitter Hailey Harward racking up 13 kills and freshman outside hitter Kashauna Williams contributing 11.

Long Beach will return home for a 7 p.m. Saturday matchup against Hawai’i with hopes to end its losing streak.

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Long Beach State women’s soccer fans began to count down from 10 as the last seconds of the game against Northridge grew near. When the time expired, the 49ers jumped up with excitement and held hands as they took a final bow in front of a crowd of 591.

After a senior ceremony full of tears, flowers and balloons, Long Beach (10-5-3, 5-1-2 Big West) defeated CSUN (6-9-1, 2-6-0 Big West) 3-1 Sunday in its final Big West matchup at George Allen Field.

“It’s emotional on senior day,” senior forward Ashley Gonzales said. “I just knew I had to come out, play for the team and get that win so we can go the conference tournament.”

With this win, Long Beach State secured first place and the regular season Big West title after missing the playoffs last season. The team accumulated 17 points total, putting them just one point above UCSB, who faced Cal Poly Sunday and tied in double overtime.

The 49ers finished the game with 13 shots and the Matadors ended with 10. Long Beach out shot every team in the Big West besides UC Riverside.

Twelve minutes into the game, Gonzales centered herself perfectly in front of the net and tapped in a pass from junior midfielder Katie Pingel, scoring the first goal that helped launch the 49ers into first place in the Big West.

“This was our last game of conference so I knew I had to go out with a bang,” Gonzales said.

In the 31st minute, junior defender Chloe Froment sent a high corner kick into Matador goalbox, and both teams fought to get a touch on the ball in the midst of traffic. Northridge freshman goalkeeper Amanda Delgado made an attempt to punch the ball out, but it slipped off of her gloves

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Senior defender Alyssa Alvarez attempts to steal the ball against a Northridge attacker Sunday.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women’s soccer crowned Big West champions

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Long Beach State defeats Northridge in its final conference game, taking first place in the Big West.

BIG WEST STANDINGS

Long Beach State

UC Santa Barbara UC Irvine

W

L

T

PTS

5

2 1

17 16

UC Davis

5

1 2

4

1

3

15

UC Riverside

Hawaii

W

L

T

PTS

4

2

4

2 4

0

14 12

2

4

2

8

Cal Poly

and into the net. This gave the 49ers an insurance goal and put them in the lead 2-0 in the first half.

The 49ers had little time to celebrate when the Matadors retaliated just over a minute after the goal by Froment. Sophomore forward Amy Aquino flicked the ball into the net, bringing the score to 2-1 and the Matadors one goal closer.

“We stayed strong together,” Froment said. “We told each other it won’t happen again.”

A handball just outside the Matador goalbox drew a freekick for Long Beach in the 58th minute. The crowd held their breath as Sophomore for-

“

This was our last game of

conference so I knew I had to go out with a bang.

”

Ashley Gonzales, forward

ward Kaylee Ramirez sent the kick over the defensive wall and into the top right corner of the net, giving the 49ers a safety cushion and lifting the score to 3-1.

The Matadors continued to take shots, but senior goalkeeper Imani McDonald held them at one goal.

She had two crucial saves, one in each half.

“I want to point out Imani McDonald as a leader,” head coach Mauricio Ingrassia said. “Imani was tremendous in the last game and this game in terms of trying to give the group the oomph that we needed.”

Long Beach will head to Irvine for the start of the Big West tournament 5 p.m. Thursday to take on UC Davis.

CSUN Cal State Fullerton

W

L

T

PTS

2

4

2

6

2 0

8 6

1

5

2

5

12

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018

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