WINTER BREAK SPORTS WRAP UP

ALL THE SCORES YOU MISSED BECAUSE YOU WERE TOO BUSY JERKING IT

By Steve Bessette, Union Staffer

    Hey, sports peeps. Hope you enjoyed your long wintry break. I know you were probably on the Long Beach State Athletics website everyday checking in on your favorite team’s scores instead of trying to watch all the new movies that will probably be nominated for Oscars, but here’s your winter break sports wrap-up anyway.
     High-fives all around for your Men’s B-Ball who were just barely undefeated during the break. Though starting out with an unfortunate loss against Arizona State in late December (72-55), the team picked up with 6 straight wins (beating last years 5 game winter winning streak), all with hefty leads against their California competitors. Their strongest victory being 71-55 over UC Santa Barbara (right after the Arizona loss) and the slimmest being against Pacific, where they squeezed by with 70-69 game. Unfortunately the break didn’t end as well, with two losses against that damn Fullerton (87-89) and UC Irvine (76-86).
     Unfortunately the Beach’s Women’s Basketball were not as fortunate as their male counterparts. The ladies started off with a nice win over Florida A&M (72-62), fell into a three game losing streak (including a crushing 43-70 loss from UC Santa Barbara), came back up thanks to CSU Northridge (64-50), and back into another losing streak until Saturdays 80-79 win over UCI. At least they did better than last winter, where they walked into the spring with eight straight losses. Nowhere to go but up, ladies.
     Men’s Volleyball started their seaspm during winter break just barely taking more wins (4) than losses (3). Their opening twofer landed them a 3-1 win against UC Irvine and a 0-3 loss against BYU. Go mormons. The guys ended their break with a close 3-2 win over UCLA, just like they did almost exactly one year ago (1/21/10). Men’s V-Ball will continue their season up through the end of April.