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Vol. LXVII, Issue 31
Monday, October 19, 2015
State of the Beach The two former LBSU coaches open up about the past and future of the men’s basketball program. By Joshua Caudill Staff Writer
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Terry Graham is deep in concentration as he works on his chalk art piece during the Belmont Shore Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest in Long Beach on Saturday.
Chalk it up to Long Beach By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor
Kneepads strapped on and chalk sets at a ready, about 60 visual artists transformed Second Street’s typically grey sidewalks into vivid, living color. Passersby watched lifelike portraits of B.B. King, Bjork and Clint Eastwood, among others, come to life before their eyes as artists squatted,
hunched over and laid down to chalk up their canvases. Justin Rudd and his Community Action Team put on the Belmont Shore Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest, which is in its 12th year, as part of Long Beach Arts Month. See photos on page 8.
A passerby takes in artwork during the Belmont Shore Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest in Long Beach on Saturday.
Dressed in sharp suits and sitting in leather lounge chairs on stage, Dan Monson and ESPN’s Seth Greenberg resembled two characters out of a “Mad Men” episode as opposed to two great minds discussing basketball. The coaches were at the Long Beach Convention Center to present The State of Beach Basketball on Thursday. Boosters, alumni, fans and former players all gathered for a luncheon in downtown Long Beach to celebrate 49ers basketball and listen to head coach Monson speak about the upcoming season with the ESPN analyst. Among those in attendance were LBSU Hall of Fame members, and former NBA players, Lucious Harris and Bryon Russell. Harris played for 12 years in the NBA and is the alltime scoring leader for both the 49ers and the Big West Conference. Russell, more widely known for his starting role on the Utah Jazz’s Western Conference championship teams, scored 1,003 points in his collegiate career and led LBSU to the 1993 NCAA Tournament.
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Closing the gap in California’s gender-wage equality The California Fair Pay Act will go into effect Jan. 1, affecting millions of women in the workforce. By Joshua Kang Staff Writer
Many are hailing the California Fair Pay Act as the nation’s strongest equal pay law, and thus effectively closing the door on 66 years of loophole exploitation. The original bill that California State Senator Hannah Beth-Jackson
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authored had already passed with rare unanimous support from both sides of the political spectrum. Gov. Jerry Brown signed it last week. The Fair Pay Act addresses two main components of equality in the workforce that the previous Equal Pay Act of 1949 failed to do. The wording in the act called for “equal pay for equal work,” but employers were able to take advantage of this phrasing to underpay women of similar skill and experience for decades. The new act would allow for women to inquire about fellow colleagues’ compensation or salary information, regardless of sex or title, without fear of retaliation from their employers. Also under this act, employers
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would be required to specifically define and prove any potential pay gap between workers as based on legitimate merit or seniority rather than gender. “Ideally in a perfect world, I hope this law helps all women, but the problem that I’m concerned about is which women will feel entitled and emboldened to pursue legal means and to trust that there won’t be any retribution,” said Shira Tarrant, a professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at California State University, Long Beach. Women have been making much less than their male counterparts ever since their inception in the workforce. “I’m just glad that our government is finally paying attention to
issues like this that have been going on for so long without change,” junior biology major Elisa Rodriguez said. According to the National Partnership for Women & Families, California women in 2013 earned an average of 85 cents on the dollar compared to men, costing female full-time workers approximately $33.6 billion annually. For women of color the situation was even worse. The Center for American Progress reported in 2014 that black women earned 64 percent of what white males made, while Hispanic women earned 54 percent in comparison. “Women who already have access to resources, money and a bigger sense of entitlement to the legal sys-
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tem stand to benefit from this bill more so than workers who are in precarious contingent employment as they might be afraid to speak up and stand up to their boss,” Tarrant said. While most individuals have been supportive of the new bill, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, some have questioned the impact that the law will have on business within the state. In a Los Angeles Times article, labor law attorney J. Al Latham Jr., said that the new law would only lead to more litigation against employers, which would
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further weaken the business climate in California. “The concerns about the impact of this legislation on businesses have been made every time there’s been an effort brought forth that addresses inequality in terms of wages, race or class so I’m not surprised,” Tarrant said. “Employers like McDonald’s and Forever 21 aren’t going to leave California. I’m not worried about business f leeing.” Even if the law is intended to protect all women, immigrant workers and part-time employees may have more difficulty when it comes to addressing unfair pay due to the financial security of a stable source of income for their families or a simple distrust of the legal system.
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Men: $50,583 Earnings ratio Women: $39,621 79%
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Failing family lifestyles? Long Beach ranks in bottom half of worst CA cities for family life, says study.
By Lynohila Ward Staff Writer
Long Beachians looking to settle down may opt for neighboring suburbs due to a new study. Long Beach was ranked as one of the worst cities in California for family life according to a study released this month by consumer and finance social media website WalletHub. Long Beach Public Affairs Officer Kerry Gerot took issue with the study’s findings. “We find it hard to take seriously a for-profit financial services corporation that is looking to create news to sell loans and insurance,” Gert said in an emailed statement. WalletHub researchers used data from various federal and state sources to create the rankings, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the California Department of Education, Yelp, Tripadvisor and Wal-
letHub itself. Using the data, researchers measured and compared 240 cities across four categories: family life and fun, education, health and safety, affordability and socioeconomic environment. Senior biochemistry student Sheri Satterfield spent her entire childhood in Long Beach and thought the ranking was extreme. “There are bad parts of Long Beach, but that is just like every other city; there are bad parts and there are good parts,” Satterfield said. Long Beach ranked 209th, 31 places ahead of the worst ranked city, Huntington Park. The No. 1 city for family life according to the study is Folsom, a city most commonly known for its prison. Earlier this year, WalletHub named Long Beach as the second worst run city in the U.S. and as the second most diverse city in the U.S. “Long Beach is one of the most affordable beach cities with miles of open beaches, a vibrant downtown, thriving marinas, wonderful neighborhoods, a symphony, an opera, a performing arts complex, the Queen Mary attraction, a well-regarded and sought after university, the Aquarium of the Pacific, a huge amount of open park space, and more family programming during the summer months than most cities,” Gerot said. Long Beach generally scored below average in most categories,
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landing in the bottom half of cities listed. Long Beach native and senior social work student Andreina Zamudio expressed skepticism with the study’s methods and findings. “We all have different views on what family life is,” Zamudio said. “I want to know who the study is based on, what area of Long Beach, and what kind of families were analyzed because I would definitely raise a family in Long Beach,” Zamudio said. Other local cities listed included: Cerritos, ranked 68th; Lakewood, ranked 91st; Downey, ranked 157th; and ranked 215th, Los Angeles.
Long Beach rankings: Percentage of families with children younger than 18: 100th Quality of school system: 137th Unemployment Rate: 189th Percentage of Families Below Poverty Level: 191st Median family salary: 201st Housing Affordability: 215th Separation and Divorce Rate: 220th
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Monday, October 19, 2015 in brief
Strike authorization up to vote By Amy Patton
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Online and in-person voting for California Faculty Association strike authorization begins Monday morning through the California State University system. The strike is part of the “Fight for Five,” in which CFA members are asking for a 5 percent general salary increase. CSU management is offering a 2 percent raise as of now. CFA members at CSU, Long Beach will be able to vote from noon to 1 p.m. on the steps of the McIntosh building near the main quad. To mark the first of 10 voting days, CFA statewide Associate Vice President-Affirmative Action Cecil Canton, Long Beach CFA President Doug Domingo-Forasté, Long Beach CFA Chapter Affirmative Action Representative Brandon Gamble and Long Beach CFA Chapter Vice President Gary Hytrek will be at the voting for any questions. “After years of stagnant faculty wages, the faculty on our public university campuses are angry and we are ready for this strike vote,” CFA Pres-
ident Jennifer Eagan said in a media release Friday. “We all know that the Chancellor’s 2 percent is simply not enough to make teaching in the CSU sustainable.” Voting closes Oct. 28 at 5 p.m. fo any questions, CFA members at CSULB can contact Niesha Gates at (916) 281-8785 or Beka Langen at (310) 728-5649.
Two reports of sexual assaults at CSULB fraternity University Police issued a Timely Warning Bulletin Thursday afternoon about two sexual assault charges. The Long Beach Police Dept. responded to the two reports at a non-campus Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity function on October 3. Two women reported being sexually assaulted at a function in which both students and non-students were in attendence. LBPD stated that the two women said the perpatraitor was an aquaintance and described him as a white 18-19 year old CSULB student. Both women said that he used force and intimidation to commit the assault. University Police encourages anyone with information about the incident or other incidents to contact the LBPD Sex Crimes Detail at (562) 570-7368, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or the LBPD Sex Crime Tip Line at (562) 570-7878, 24/7.
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never thought I’d defend a man holding up sign saying “homo no more,” yet here I am, a gay man, and that’s what I’m about to do. No, I’m not here to defend the words of hate-filled lunatics who claim to be Christian. I’m here to say we could’ve stopped the phenomenon. Instead, we’ve managed to make them look like the adults in the room. For the uninitiated, California State University, Long Beach and many colleges around the country have “free speech zones.” These are zones in which the most inflammatory, hateful speech can be said with reckless abandon with no threat of retaliation by the school itself. Such zones are generally filled with exactly one type of speaker: “Christian” crusaders holding signs damning fags to hell, masturbators to hell, whores to hell. Everyone, it seems, is going to hell. They can quote the entire Bible back at you, but they’d rather focus on the most hateful words of Leviticus. They are preachers of hate under the guise of Christianity, and almost universally hated on campus. Yet, somehow, they are not the most annoying. That title falls to their audience: students who would rather shut
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Self proclaimed “confrontational evangelist,” Isidro Mendoza, prepares to speak to students at California State University, Long Beach on Tuesday, Oct. 13th. Mendoza, states, “I just go out and share the love of God.” down speech with which they disagree than have a meaningful voice in opposition. Indeed, if you come across one of these “Christian” mongers of hate, you will no doubt be subject to
the buffoonery of their opponents. What part of our higher education has taught us that, in a war of opinion, twerking is a reasonable debate strategy? How does shocking vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity
make us the morally righteous? In an attempt to silence the ridiculous, we’ve managed to make them look like the adults. No. We’re not better than these bigots, we created them.
Step into the shoes of the man who comes to college campuses in order to preach the word of God. What do you see? Women explicitly spreading their legs in opposition to the word of abstinence. Students calling the Bible a “rag of hatred” in response to the word of the Lord. Oh – and the twerking, because why not? Such responses easily make us look like the hell-bound sinners these people claim we are. And thus we begin a self-fulfilling prophecy: They say we need Jesus, and we attempt to silence them in a way that suggests they’re right. They become more extreme in the face of our actions, and we take the bait. Drowning out a voice doesn’t make it go away, it makes the other side shout louder, and harbor contempt for opposition. It fuels the anger we’re trying to quell, and even justifies their speech. If we are to become the educated adults I imagine we all came to college to become, we must learn there are better ways to express ourselves than silencing the opposition. We must find our own voice to begin the conversation, not end the discussion. Until then, we’re just a circus of delusional hate-filled “Christian” wackos and hell-bound twerking hooligans, and nobody wins. — Mark Webster CSULB junior political science major
A Playmate’s lament: No nudity? Say it ain’t so
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hen I was a Playboy centerfold in December 1979, the magazine’s monthly circulation was around 5.6 million. Today, that has dropped to 800,000. Last year, the Playboy website dumped nudity. Clearly, something isn’t working. But I think Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s recent decision to drop nudity and only publish photos that are “PG-13” is patently the wrong thing to do. I don’t think it’s the direction
Hef would take if he weren’t being guided by his editors. I was around when Playboy changed its editorial concept and embraced full frontal nudity to compete with Penthouse. The pictures were down and dirty _ but that wasn’t Hef’s taste. His original concept, the nude “girl next door,” was what made the magazine great. The early Playmates were not actresses or models, just very attractive women. They were accessible, friendly, smiling and sexy. I loved the golden years of Play-
boy in the ‘70s, when the girls were enticingly photographed in the nude. If Playboy’s plan is to run photos that are “more like the racier sections of Instagram,” as The New York Times reported, then count me out as a fan. I find it incredible that Playboy is following the herd mentality inspired by this social media platform. Anyone can snap an Instagram photo. It’s much more difficult to photograph a woman and make her look like the images created by classic Playboy photographers Richard Fegley, Pompeo Posar and Arny Freytag.
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This is all about the bottom line. Nudity was omitted from Playboy’s website in 2014 to make the content “safe” for sharing on social media. As a result, according to the Times, the average age of the Playboy site’s reader “dropped from 47 to just over 30, and its web traffic jumped to about 16 million from about 4 million unique users per month.” I’m not sure what to make of this. I know my fans are still out there because when I post my vintage Playboy photos, I receive a great response. I know there are still Playboy followers out there who appreciate
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Hef’s original centerfold concept. I realize you have to change with the times. I understand the need for a magazine revamp. I just wish it wasn’t at the expense of the glamorous, iconic Playboy Playmate image. Selfishly, I should be thankful. This means there will be a finite number of Playboy centerfolds and an even smaller number of Playmates who were Playboy Bunnies like me. And then she smiled. —Candace Jordan, Chicago Tribune, TNS
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(Top) Arlou Somo puts the finishing touches on his chalk art piece during Belmont Shore Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest in Long Beach on Saturday. (Above) Randall Williams from Burbank works on his chalk art. (Above right) Musician Chelsey Sanchez sings. (Right) An artist works on a portrait of Stevie Wonder. Photos
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CSULB screens film about little-known police operation Documentary chronicles conflict between Philadelphia police and black liberation group. By Sophia Lepore Staff Writer
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department is hosting a free screening of “Let the Fire Burn” along with a Q-and-A with director Jason Osder. The documentary recounts a confrontation that occurred on May 13, 1985 when a long-time feud between Philadelphia police and MOVE, a black liberation group, came to a head. Attempting to carry out arrest warrants, police fired 10,000 rounds of ammunition and dropped military-grade explosives onto a fortified row house occupied by members of MOVE. The faceoff resulted in 11 deaths
and the destruction of 65 homes. “The film is composed entirely of archival footage, yet it unfurls with the tension of a thriller, ” said Helen Hood Scheer, CSULB assistant film and electronic arts professor. “This type of intimate access is a great way to help make our students better filmmakers and scholars, which is our goal.” Director Jason Osder grew up in Philadelphia when the deadly clash occurred. Of the 11 who were killed by police, five were children. “I remember being truly scared,”
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said Osder in a statement. “Regardless of politics or race or whether MOVE was a cult, I knew even as a child that the children were not to blame for what happened to them and that a fundamental injustice had occurred.” The film will be screened at the University Theatre on Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. “There’s so much in this film to consider content-wise. Personally, I hope students walk away excited to participating in events like this one on campus and fired-up the potential of documentary filmmaking,” Scheer said.
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Feeling ‘Dopamine’ The first studio album from BØRNS has us falling in electric love.
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You’re high when you listen, whether you like it or not. Michigan-native Garrett Borns embodies all that is Southern California, with a beach-y indie sound mixed with a splash of electric-pop. His first studio album, “Dopamine,” transports the listener to another world, where everything is cool as the Pacific Blue. BØRNS’ music can be described as breezy and melodic. The lovefilled, alluring lyrics on “Dopamine” are sun-kissed with psychedelic rifts. BØRNS is high on life and love, and he wants you to feel it, too. The musician’s first studio album took less than a year to create and comes after the great success of EP release “Candy,” which included hot tracks “Past Lives” and “Fool.”
The album opener “10,000 Emerald Pools” is the perfect song to grab a blanket with your muse and head to the nearest pier. “Down to the bottom, ten thousand emerald pools,” Borns croons. “You’re all I need to breathe / I’ll dive deeper, deeper for you.” “Dopamine” takes an upbeat turn with Borns’ high notes in the mesmerizing ride of “Electric Love.” As the chorus comes around, the drums pick up signifying the eclipse of sound that ends with the climatic lyrics “All I need is to be struck by your electric love.” It can and will make the listener go weak at the knees. BØRNS slows things down a bit with the heartfelt ballads “American Money” and “The Emotion” that have melancholy feels that remind us that although love can take us to the clouds it can also smack our heads on the concrete. “I lost count so long ago / maybe my heart’s numb,” “The Emotion” begins. “Don’t hold my hands accountable / they’re young and they’re dumb.” Hints of the ‘80s are heard throughout the album, sometimes
reminding us a bit of The Smiths and early New Order, particularly on the track “Past Lives,” which holds heartfelt lyrics with a dance-y melody. The album’s standout song is the perfect combination of pop with a dash of electric soul, taking the listener back to one of the greatest decades for music. The afterglow of the album includes the swooning title track “Dopamine” and the groovy “Overnight Sensation,” which was based off an article and an old black and white photo BØRNS found in a 1969 Playboy magazine he was reading while in the studio, according to an interview in Spin Magazine. BØRNS describes the scene in “Overnight Sensation” of a girl posing for the centerfold spread with, “She’s glowing like the cherry on my cigarette, beaten sweater, diamonds sweating down her neck.” As the last song “Fool” comes to an end, you’ll quickly reach for your phones and hit replay to gain back that feeling of love while lying on the hot sand with the waves crashing in the distance. With this album by your side, you’ll never have to leave the beach.
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pull ahead in the end, winning the second set 25-19. Barber got 7 kills in
the second set. The Matadors were able to block
many kill attempts by Barber. Barber has finished with double-digit kills in every match since the first match of the season. She averages 3.82 kills per set and 3.10 digs per set. Sophomore middle blocker Ashley Murray was just behind her with 9 kills of her own. Murray is one of eight players in the Big West with a hitting percentage over .300. She was recently injured in the Sept. 18 game against UCLA, but made her return to the starting lineup against Hawaii last weekend. The third set was close, with Northridge leading from the start 7-5 after LBSU gave away a few service errors. But in the end, the 49ers won the third set 25-16 to complete the sweep. Barber ended the night with 18 kills. Murray followed behind with 11 kills on the night. CSUN senior outside hitter Cieana Stinson matched Barber with 18 kills of her own. Matadors’ head coach Jeff Stork said the game’s outcome was fair, but called his team’s performance uncharacteristic. “There are some things that we didn’t do well that we had control over,” Stork said. “Long Beach is a pretty good team but we gave them far too many points from our errors, in particular the over-passes and over-digs. That’s something that normally we don’t do.” The 49ers return to the Walter Pyramid on Friday to play UC Santa Barbara at 7 p.m.
to take a 5-4 lead, but UCSB locked in on defense the rest of the way. The Gauchos opened up the game in the second half and scored five unanswered goals to take a 9-5 lead heading into the fourth quarter. Freshman Austin Stevenson said the 49ers would need to focus more on the defensive end going forward. “We need to get more stops on defense and get more field blocks,” Stevenson said. Redshirt freshman Chandler Kaltenbach was the first to get on the board, and was followed by senior Dimitrios Lappas; giving the
49er a 2-0 lead against the Gauchos. The Gauchos came back with two goals, tying the game at 2-2 before LBSU freshman Keegan Wicken gave them the lead over the Gauchos to end the first quarter. The second quarter was a defensive battle, but the Gauchos managed to tie the game at four before the end of the half. “We couldn’t get stops on their power plays,” head coach Gavin Arroyo said. After their three-point first quarter, the 49ers were unable to score more than 2 goals in each of the successive quarters. UCSB head
coach Wolf Wigo said that was part of the game plan. “We wanted to stress our defense and not get to many exclusions, and we actually didn’t do the best job of that,” Wigo said. “But, fortunately our offense was working pretty well and we were able to shoot our way out of our not-so-great defense.” LBSU (7-10) opened up their three-game home stand with a pair of wins against Occidental College and UC San Diego on Thursday. Up next for LBSU is a matchup with Whittier College on Thursday at the Lindgren Aquatics Center at 7 p.m.
The 49ers hosted CSUN on Saturday night by winning all three sets. By Natasha Viti Contributing Writer
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team put last weekend’s close loss to Hawaii behind it in closing out CSUN 3-0 on Saturday night at the Walter Pyramid. Even though they swept the match, Coach Brian Gimmillaro said they still made some errors. “We did a lot of good things and made some mistakes,” Gimmillaro said. “We could dominate, and then we made a mistake.” Both teams put up strong spiking, blocking, and digging numbers in the first set. The score was tied with no one gaining throughout the set until the 49ers kicked it into high gear, taking the set 25-21. Junior outside hitter Nele Barber led the team with 6 kills. Freshman Megan Kruidhof had a career night from the back row. The outside hitter got a career-high 11 digs in one set alone and finished with 14. “I’d like to pursue working my way up and [getting] stronger to become a good outside hitter,” Kruidhof said.
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Senior setter Jenelle Hudson spikes the ball towards CSUN middle blocker Stephanie Serna-Arreola Saturday night at the Walter Pyramid. CSUN led the second set with service aces, but the 49ers were able to
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49ers stumble back at home this weekend LBSU loses to UC Santa Barbara for the fourth time this season. By Devrysha Rogers Contributing Writer
The Long Beach State men’s water polo team failed to build on their two wins earlier in the week, falling to UC Santa Barbara 10-7 on Saturday at the Lindgren Aquatics Center. The 49ers had the lead at the beginning of the match, but struggled to keep up with the Gauchos in the third quarter. The 49ers started the second half by scoring the first goal
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
49ers falter against Highlanders and Anteaters LBSU loses backto-back games for the first time this season. By Josh Barajas & John Broadway Staff Writers
The Long Beach State women’s soccer team suffered its first losses in conference play after a 2-1 defeat to UC Riverside on Friday and a 2-0 loss at UC Irvine on Sunday. After junior goalie Ashton McKeown sustained an injury to her shoulder on Friday, sophomore keeper Cynthia Diaz was called on to start against UCI at Anteater Stadium. The 49ers (8-5-3, 3-2-0) started off dominating the ball against Irvine (7-8-1, 3-2-0), but it was the Anteaters who scored on their first shot on goal after an error by Diaz. The goalie failed to put a firm glove on sophomore Andrea Mensen’s shot in the 34th minute, allowing the ball to trickle in. Freshman goalkeeper Imani McDonald started in between the posts for LBSU in the second half, but she was unable to prevent sophomore forward Kiana Palacios from firing in UCI’s second goal of the night in the 63rd minute. The 49ers answered in the 71st minute after freshman forward Fatmata Kamara headed in a goal, however Kamara was called offside to keep the score at 2-0. UCI held on to get the upset win over LBSU. Friday’s loss snapped a threegame winning streak for LBSU. The 49ers outshot the Highlanders 13-7 overall, but UCR opened the scoring in the 22nd minute thanks to a shot from Highlanders’ junior midfielder Blanca Barrio that f loated in over the outstretched hands of goalkeeper Ashton McKeown.
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Junior midfielder Mimi Rangel dribbles past two UC Riverside defenders in Friday’s 2-1 loss to the Highlanders at George Allen Field attacks.
Despite entering on a hot streak, head coach Mauricio Ingrassia said the 49ers missed too many easy opportunities against UCR (9-7-0, 3-2-0), which ultimately led to their defeat. “We didn’t capitalize on the opportunities we created,” Ingrassia said. “We missed four very easy shot attempts in the first 15 minutes…it was disappointing to not even hit a target on those and when you don’t put those [shots] away early they trickle into your own goal.”
Ingrassia wasn’t the only one who felt this way, midfielder Celeste Dominguez thought the missed opportunities played a role in the loss as well. “Our hard work and dedication is there,” Dominguez said. “I just think putting the ball away early would of helped us out a lot with getting comfortable and not having to chase down the ball in the second half.” In that second half, Barrio struck again in the 49th minute by firing a
twenty-five yard shot into the back of the net. After going down 2-0, the 49ers fought through the adversity and in the 71st minute they recorded their first goal after junior midfielder Mimi Rangel was fouled in the box and converted her penalty kick. UC Riverside played a very physical game throughout, fouling the 49ers 17 times throughout the night. The game reached its’ climax when shortly after the goal, Barrio accidentally kicked Rangel on the
sideline resulting in a brief altercation. “[The incident] was a little 50/50, it was adrenaline honestly, I didn’t mean to kick her because I didn’t see she had the ball,” Barrio said. “It’s all good though. We came together after the game, we fixed it, and we’re cool. We leave it all on the field.” LBSU is away at CSU Northridge on Thursday at 7 p.m. before returning to Long Beach to host Hawaii at George Allen Field on Sunday at 6 p.m.
undefeated and defending champion UNLV. The 49ers were down by 30 at the half and when Greenberg looked down at the bench, there was no McCray in sight. Before Greenberg wrapped up his solo speech, he expressed his admiration for the LBSU basketball program. “Probably one of the worst decisions I ever made was leaving Long Beach State,” Greenberg said. “This is a pretty special place.” As the afternoon proceeded, Monson fielded questions from fans regarding fundamentals and protecting his players from off the court issues before furthering his dialogue with Greenberg. After two straight losing seasons, the ESPN analyst, true to form, ribbed Monson on the difficulties of losing. “How do you sleep? Do you lose sleep? The last three years I have slept like a baby,” Greenberg smirked. Greenberg was referencing his termination at Virginia Tech in 2012. “I sleep like a baby too,” Monson said. “I wake up every two hours.”
LBSU has not been to the NCAA tournament since 2012 and are far from being considered favorites in the Big West with UC Davis and UC Irvine returning a lot of their talent. Monson will have to rely on three new transfers and last season’s rotation players in an effort to replace leading-scorer Mike Caffey. “I just worry about us,” Monson said. “We’re not very good right now but this group is good enough and like each other and it matters to them, I really think the time league rolls around and we keep getting better, there’s no reason we couldn’t win this thing.” Monson did not hesitate on his vision and aspirations for LBSU basketball. “Can you go to the Final Four at Long Beach State? Well, it’s never been done but it had never been done before at Butler, VCU or George Mason either,” Monson said. “There’s no reason we can’t have those goals in mind.” LBSU opens the season at home against BYU-Hawaii on Saturday Nov. 14 at the Walter Pyramid.
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“To have this kickoff means a lot to me. To have former players come back, and I’m not so dumb that I don’t know that the players came back to see their former coach Seth [Greenberg],” Monson laughed. “But, I’m fine with whatever it takes to get them to come back and support the program.” Monson furthered his glowing remarks of former 49ers players. “The ultimate compliment to a coach is to have your players, after they’re gone, to appreciate what you have done for them,” Monson said. “And that appreciation is evident.” Greenberg, who coached at LBSU from 1987-1996, chatted with enamored fans and worked the room as if he were running for political office. When the former head coach was at the podium, he commanded the room’s attention with his booming voice and charisma.
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LBSU men’s basketball head coach Dan Monson sits with ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg at the Long Beach Convention Center on Thursday.
The former 49er coach fondly reflected back on his time with LBSU. He spoke of his 1993 team knocking off No.1 ranked Kansas on the road, discussed his joy of coaching his players and working with former Athletic Director Dave O’Brien, the
construction of the Walter Pyramid and the raucous crowds in his era. Greenberg even chuckled when he recalled the time he asked former California State University, Long Beach President Curtis McCray to sit on the bench for a game against