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Vol. LIX, Issue 863 www.daily49er.com Monday, May 4, 2015
DAILY 49ERCalifornia State University, Long Beach
Michael ares | Daily 49er
California State University, Long Beach will have 100 parking spots added to employee lot 7 after numerous complaints for lack of parking on upper campus.
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Long Beach State infielder Zack Domingues attempts to throw out a runner at first base on Sunday against Hawaii at Blair Field.
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Slamming it out with spoken word
The Dirtbags’ chances of making the postseason became slimmer after dropping the weekend series against Hawaii.
Art enthusiasts of the Long Beach community reunite once again for the annual display of poetic talent.
The Long Beach State baseball team dropped a three game series for its first sweep loss of the season when Hawai’i visited Blair Field over the weekend.
“It’s as much of a gut check and a mentality thing [you can get],” LBSU head coach Troy Buckley said. “I asked the players if this is the same team that swept Wichita and Northridge.”
The Dirtbags (23-20, 8-10 Big West) never led in Sunday’s 6-2 loss to the Rainbow Warriors (18-26,
9-9 Big West). Junior righty Tanner Brown gave up four hits and allowed five men on base in the first inning, only to fall behind 3-0.
Lefty senior Ryan Strufing entered the game in the sixth inning and promptly gave up a lead off double to sophomore lefty Marcus Doi. Doi would make his way home to make 5-0 in the Rainbow Warriors favor.
“You almost want to have this ex-citement [in that situation],” Buckley said. “But I think there is this nega-tive anticipation because of the lack of [offensive] production.”
The Dirtbags finally got on the board in the seventh inning when freshman outfielder Tristan Mercadel led off with a base hit and junior catcher Eric Hutting brought him in to make it 5-1. The Dirtbags tried to make a run in the bottom of the ninth inning with a score by Mercadel but ultimately fell. The Dirtbags are now 0-17 on the season when trailing after eight innings.
“It’s disappointing, but we can’t let that get to us,” junior right-fielder Zack Rivera said.
Freshman righty Chris Mathew-son struck out eight and lowered his Big West leading ERA to 1.39 in the Dirtbags 1-0 loss on Saturday. Mathewson gave up the lone run in the fourth inning to junior designat-ed hitter Alex Sawelson.
The Dirtbags let their early lead slip away late in Friday’s 7-4 loss to the Rainbow Warriors. Hampson got the offense going for the Dirtbags in
the first inning by drawing a walk and stealing second base. The next two batters grounded out, which allowed Hampson to cash in for the 1-0 Dirt-bag lead.
The Rainbow Warriors tied it up 1-1 in the third inning when senior righty Kyle Friedrichs gave up a dou-
A stew of lyrical life experiences and perspectives drop onto an audience, re-torting reverberated cries and roars of agreement.
Performing from his wheel chair, first-time participant at Saturday’s Long Beach Poetry Slam Mario DeMatteo spoke about his injury.
“In 2004 I broke my neck diving into a shallow swimming pool,” DeMatteo voiced in baritones, shaking the speak-ers and giving the 70-plus watchers into an unforeseen reality check. “I still re-member the bottom all brittle and bone piled.”
Onstage slam performances are unique from other mediums of expres-sion, the Master of Arts in literature and writing alumnus from California State University, San Marcos said.
“It is a very powerful thing to hear someone spill their guts on stage,” DeMatteo, an editor and art director for an online poetry and performance community called Spit Journal, said. “I love film more than anything else but acting is scripted and practiced while spoken word … is very much in the moment and effecting people immedi-ately.”
In its fourth year, the Long Beach Poetry Slam flooded Made, a boutique store off of Pine Street in downtown. The event was in part a say-anything open mic support session, and part a poet-opposing-poet rivalry tourna-ment in which volunteer judges rated individuals on a level from one to 10.
“A slam is a poetry competition where people come up and pour their hearts out on stage and tell their stories from the deepest darkest trenches of their souls,” this year’s master of cere-monies Mayda Del Valle, a former HBO “Def Poetry” participant, joked, “and then you put a score on it and we send them home crying.”
A DJ played hip hop in between acts for the 70-plus crowd, setting the at-mosphere for a room full Long Beach’s word-of-mouth artists to perform on a level unavailable to them five years pri-or, Appaling said.
The slam poetry scene had a pres-ence, but there was nowhere to physi-cally meet.
Long Beach Slam’s founder Antonio Appling refreshed this year’s get-to-gether by holding it at this new venue
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In order to accommodate the lack of desired faculty spaces, 100 parking spots will be added to employee lot 7 off of Seventh Street in.
“We’ve heard from many people for a while that there’s more parking need-ed,” said California State University, Long Beach Vice President of Admin-istration and Finance Mary Stephens. “We hear from faculty particularly looking for parking spaces when they
get to work.”Headed by Stephens, the project
would compensate for the increase in classes on upper campus since the ren-ovation of the Liberal Arts buildings.
Chair of the Academic Senate Praveen Soni said that the topic for convenient parking was continuously brought up with no strong intentions until the discussion reopened on the floor of the senate April 23 during the Academic Senate meeting.
“For a number of years faculty members and Academic Senators have been complaining about the serious
lack of parking for faculty on upper campus,” Soni said via email. “I guess I should say that finally faculty com-plaints have had an impact and at least plans have been made.”
The project, intended to begin sum-mer 2016, would require the removal of the greenery leading to the south turnaround behind the Univ¬ersity Library.
Stephens said that the conversion and construction of the lot would re-quire a parking fee increase, which would first need to be negotiated with CSULB affiliated employee and faculty
unions.Present contracts, such as the Unit
4 Ratified 2014 Agreement of the Ac-ademic Professionals of California, already state restrictions on fee in-creases until 2017. Employee parking fees cannot be raised more than $1 a month per fiscal year, according to the document.
The average semester employ-ee-parking permit costs about $60, depending on special employee cat-
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A San Francisco Superior Court ruled that the California State University system fee increases are “fair” to students.
The court voted 9-3 against the lawsuit that was originally filed by undergraduate students in 2009, according to the CSU Board of Trustees agenda. The students filed the lawsuit after the CSU in-creased undergraduate tuition in July by $672. This was two months after a $306 fee increase was ad-opted in, according to the CSU’s website.
“Today’s verdict affirms the California State University’s com-mitment to student success and the fiscal stability of the university
for future generations of Califor-nians,” Framroze Virjee, CSU ex-ecutive vice chancellor and general counsel, said in a statement last week.
The original case, which opened in 2011, became a class-action law-suit on behalf of about 175,000 students across the CSU system, according to a meeting agenda for the Committee of the Whole.
The CSU system filed with both the court of appeal and the Cali-fornia Supreme Court in 2012 to challenge the class certification decision, but both were denied, ac-cording to the agenda.
The part of the lawsuit that concerns the fee implemented for graduate students in the CSU sys-tem has yet to be determined.
The CSU overall acted responsi-bly with the fee increases in order to preserve its academic programs and minimize disruption to stu-dents, Virjee said.
“With the state’s reinvestment in the university, tuition fees have remained stable for the past four years,” Virjee said. “The CSU con-tinues to offer one of the most af-fordable quality undergraduate de-gree programs in the nation.”
Jury rejects student lawsuit against CSU
Medical marijuana users may be ineligible for organ trans-plants, depending on the vote of the California Senate.
Assembly Bill 258, passed with a 52-8 vote on Thursday, now awaits the senate’s verdict. The bill, introduced by Assemby Member Marc Levine in Febru-ary, explicitly states that hospi-tals or physicians cannot deny an organ transplant candidate solely on his or her usage of medical marijuana.
Physicians and surgeons would
be required to do a case-by-case evaluation of each patient, rather than applying a blanket regula-tion on all medicinal marijuana users.
There are 21 transplant hos-pitals in California and four Or-gan Procurement Organizations that are authorized by Center for Medicare to receive or remove or-gans for transplant, according to the the bill.
A study published in 2011 by the University of Michigan Jour-nal of Law reform found that OPOs and hospitals lack medical and policy foundation for trans-plants involving medical marijua-na users and cigarette smokers.
According to bill, each indi-vidual hospital develops its own polices regarding a patient’s eligi-bility to receive a transplant. The United Network for Organ Shar-ing acts as a public-private agent for the United States transplant system. UNOS creates its own policies on distributing organs to eligible patients.
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SB 258 will determine whether medical marijuana users can undergo certain surgeries.
A previous double-increase in tuition was ruled to be “fair” by the court in a 9-3 ruling.
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egories. Student parking permits cost $123 per semester.
In estimating budgets for the pending project, Stephens said that building a parking structure would be avoided because it would cost about $19 to $20 thousand per space.
“We’re finding a compromise of doing a surface lot which we can do faster and less expensively,” Ste-phens said.
Stephens said that she also want to avoid extensive parking additions in the area to promote commuters to use sustainable means of transpor-tation such as biking, bussing and shuttling.
CSULB President Jane Close Conoley said CSULB will expand the free buss program, increase and
expand shuttle routes closer to stu-dents living near campus, build more bike paths on campus and within the city and improve bike storage on campus all during lot 7’s makeover.
“Our carbon footprint comes mostly from commuting students,” Conoley said via email. “We have to promote alternative transit rather than just building more parking spots.”
The next step of the project will be to take care of financial plan-ning and consultation development during this summer so formal meet and confers can take place with the unions through the CSU chancellor’s office in the fall.
The new parking spaces are in-tended for faculty and employees, but will be made available to stu-dents after 5:30 p.m. Existing park-ing lots will be resurfaced and handi-cap development this summer.
Shedding light on intellectual property CSULB faculty looks to implement new policies.
Concerns regarding patent and copyright laws in the classroom will be addressed during Thurs-day’s California State University Senate meeting.
The ongoing conversation in the senate regarding intellectual prop-erty focuses on digital course ma-terials for online classes.
Tracey Mayfield, the associ-ate dean at the university library, said that she has done extensive research for CSULB concerning intellectual property and has de-veloped a website to aid faculty in understanding it within univer-sities. The website development is partially in response to a lack of faculty awareness on copyright regulation.
“Faculty tell [students] not to plagiarize, yet they’re telling [li-brary staff] how they illegally downloaded… software to show [copyrighted course materials],” Mayfield said. “We have to be set-ting the best example.”
Mayfield said that intellectual property became an issue in the CSU system in the early ‘90s after a huge lawsuit against Kinkos for illegally creating course materials for classes without the approval of its publishers. The lawsuit began a chain reaction throughout the CSU system as well as universities across the nation.
The Chancellor’s office issued Executive Order 644 in 1995, prompting university presidents to implement an intellectual property policy for their campuses rather than creating one policy for the en-tire CSU system.
Traditionally, academic publish-ers like Pearson develop teams of hired faculty members, in addition to the programmers and designers to create digital course material, according to a letter from the office of the Provost at CSULB.
“The most important thing about
intellectual property is that credit is given where credit is due,” said Margaret Karteron, a faculty mem-ber in Natural Sciences and Math-ematics department at CSULB. “Too many times, people have not been recognized for what they contributed and that’s an egregious fault.”
The faculty members participat-ing in the development of these programs have to sign over their intellectual property rights while the publisher sells the course mate-rial to students at the highest bid-der. Equally important, coursework provided to universities by these publishers is created to appeal to a nationwide audience.
David Dowell, the interim Pro-vost & Senior Vice President of CSULB, said that CSULB in-tends to eliminate the middleman and create its own content, which would cater to the coursework CSULB provides.
“In the digital world, once you put it online you published it,” Dowell said. “So the need for third party publisher has changed.”
For CSULB, obtaining intel-lectual property rights to its own material is more about investing in the learning outcomes from these programs, according to the Provost letter from Dowell.
“[As a campus], this is not a big revenue maker for us,” Mayfield said.
The discussion of drafting an intellectual property policy at CSULB will allow the school to provide its own coursework, po-tentially at a more affordable price for students. But the issue creates a huge grey area because of its com-plexity and legal ramifications it poses against violators.
“All this is unsettled, so it’s not clear yet and it’ll take years before it sorts itself out,” Dowell said.
By Michael MendozaContributing Writer
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Above, Buganvilia sings and lip-syncs classics like “I’m Every Woman” and “It’s Raining Men” at Draglicious on Friday. Top left, the queens enter stage one by one.
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With her back to the audience, the red curtains gave way as a spot-light illuminated the tall figure of Lucinda Bianco. She batted her fake eyelashes under a voluminous, blonde wig as her long legs strutted into an act inspired by Lady Gaga.
Nearly 200 people gathered to watch Bianco and her cohorts per-form at California State University, Long Beach’s Beach Auditorium to watch brothers and friends of Delta Lambda Phi strut their stuff to raise funds during the eighth annual Draglicious on Friday.
“Drag is a form of art; it’s a way for people to express themselves,” Delta Lambda Phi brother and event MC Juan Gonzales said. “It’s important for us to break the ste-reotypes and showcase drag as a way of art, and not something that people should be afraid of or judge.”
Draglicious featured perform-ers from various fields of the drag community. Foxie Adjuia chan-neled anime character Ryuko Ma-toi in red patent leather stilettos, a breast-bearing navy blue ensemble
and an enlarged scissor blade. She lip-synched to her own mix of K pop, Japanese and American art-ists.
“I want people to not only be en-tertained by it,” Adjuia said. “[They should] also be like, there is an Af-rican-American drag queen who is progressive enough to not only do the standard vision of drag, but also go above and beyond.”
Adjuia found her outlet while be-ing part of Delta Lambda Phi, a so-cial fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men, to start her drag career. Her first stint at Draglicious three years went well and ultimate-ly triggered the beginning of her on-stage reign.
She has plans to audition for Ru-Paul’s Drag Race, a reality show fo-cused on trying to find “America’s next drag superstar.”
Attendee Daniel Flores, a fash-ion design freshman at CSULB, enjoyed watching the queens bring their unique personalities to life through their performances.
“It’s spontaneous,” Flores said. “ That’s what drag is. You have to be outrageous. You have to perform. You have to entertain people.”
Flores was especially captivated by Robbie Osa, who commanded the stage in a sequined black leo-tard and thigh high boots. She cart-wheeled off of the stage and danced her way up the auditorium aisle to Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”
Madame Lestrange took the stage and performed a chilly reenactment of Rama Lama. She wore a red and black 19th-century inspired corset dress, a blood red wig and a blank
expression. Madame Lestrange is classified
as part of the goth and alternative queens, Adjuia said. Drag queens are often grouped into categories: sexy, feminine queens like Madame Lestrange make up the “gender-fuck” scene, while the “rock-grun-ge” queens are portrayed as “really, really dark” and the “bar scene” queens are those who book most of their acts at bars.
Long Beach has a big drag cul-ture and scene, Adjuia said. “I think this is the perfect place for a drag queen to live.”
The city hosts a number of drag-
related events and performances at Hamburger Mary’s, Malarkey’s Grill and Club Ripples, Adjuia said. Friday night’s event raised money for gay and straight alliances in lo-cal high schools.
Draglicous has proven very successful for Delta Lambda Phi, Gonzales said. It’s been the second consecutive year that the Beach Auditorium has been at capacity. He credits the success to the city’s open mindedness and large LGBT community.
“People come [to Long Beach] and they feel included” Gonzales said.
Queens for Teens
Delta Lambda Phi’s annual fundraiser brought out drag queens from different factions.
By Melitza BeltranContributing Writer
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that has fulfilled his desire to pro-mote local merchants. He said that he was grateful for the Made store’s collaboration, as the hub hosts over 60 Long Beach-centric vendors, while the group strug-gled to have even two vendors step up at past slams.
“We started it because we real-ized there was a big artist com-munity in Long Beach and they weren’t being engaged,” Appling said.
In the beginning, Appling’s open mic team, known as The De-finitive Soapbox, only held small venues where people could come and speak on stage. Organizers eventually decided to step it up by creating a stage play called “Freedom Is a Voice” – a spoken word music stage play showcas-ing open mic regulars.
“It was just a group of volun-teers [full of] people who love spoken word and people that want to be more involved in the culture in a more intrinsic level,” Appling said.
Poetry writer Edwin Bodney from Los Angeles slammed about his coming of age, which quickly created an energetic response in the crowd.
“The night my father accom-panies me to a gay bar, the air is a hot cast-iron griddle,” Bodney said. “Everyone on the dance floor is a vessel of color and steam sizzling into a pallet of sex and dreaming boys.”
He said he’s taken inspiration from the works of writers such as James Baldwin, Julia Levine and Sylvia Plath, but Bodney pays at-tention to contemporary works of gay, black writers because he said there aren’t many headlining in the lyrical world. Bodney said it’s the spoken word aspect of slam poetry that catches his attention.
“It sort of blurs the line be-tween visual and performing arts,” Bodney said. “Usually you would be [writing poetry] on pa-per, but in a performance aspect you’re doing this with your body language, with your voice.”
The night ended with an ex-change of the winner’s trophy – a new event introduced this year –as last year’s winner passed the title onto Katelin Wagner from Los Angeles.
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As a young girl of Generation Y who spent an immense amount of time jam-ming 11.5-inch Barbie dolls into my brother’s Imperial AT-AT walker, my af-finity for the ‘70s, space-set saga started early.
Announcing my fatherhood into os-cillating fans, renaming the family dog to ‘Chewie,’ dueling my brother with light sabers imagined out of cardboard gift-wrap tubes—it was evident that the Force was strong with me.
And just like the bloodline of Clan Skywalker, the Force will live on through the next generation once “The Force Awakens” hits theaters later this year.
With a $4 billion price tag and Lucas’ plans to retire, The Walt Disney Com-pany bought Lucasfilm in 2012, entrust-ing Emmy-award winning director, J. J. Abrams, with the torch, according to USA Today.
The intergalactic opera has done more than supply us with an empty bucket-list slot to become an X-Wing pilot. Wheth-er we realized it or not, “Star Wars” used a galaxy far, far away to teach us a little bit more about our own.
And of course, as a young, aspiring Jedi who still has yet to master the infa-mous bun braids, I gravitated toward the badass demagogue of Alderaan.
Princess Leia Organa is one of the Rebel Alliance’s greatest leaders. She is a quick-witted diplomat who plays a key role in defeating the Galactic Empire—not to mention an adept sniper with a higher shooting accuracy than Luke and Han.
Lucas created a world where, based on Leia’s gender, her authority was not to be questioned.
Leia’s imprint was a gateway to many other strong female role models in the on-screen industry. Without the op-portunity for women left in her wake, we may have never seen television series such as “Xena: Warrior Princess” or El-len Ripley in Ridley Scott’s film fran-chise “Alien.”
Long before kickball captains and
student governments, “Star Wars” leaves young viewers with a grasp on the inner workings of politics.
The CGI-saturated prequels incor-porate a heavier lesson on the Galactic Republic, giving viewers a glance into the monarchies, republics and hive-like communes that made up the Galactic Senate.
The Empire, glutted with followers of the Sith Order, took control after the Old Republic with fear-based tactics—punc-tuated by the construction of an atomic weapon used to eliminate planets on a whim of incompliance.
Darth Vader is the face, or shall we say helmet, of an all-powerful dictator-ship. Ruling with abused powers and Force Chokes, impessionable audiences can quickly identify the jet-black totali-tarian as a villain and his unforgiving re-gime as a flawed way to govern a people.
The core four (six if we’re counting droids) represents a quasi-libertarian approach under the Rebel Alliance. They aim to revive the Old with the New Republic, teaching viewers that power shifts are necessary and not all figure-heads in authoritarian positions are to be trusted.
But Lucas, who do we trust? Our-selves.
Like all great epics, “Star Wars’” strong, paladin-centric storyline intro-duces us to all the players of the Force
and the bleak realms in which it subsists while still leaving us with a glimmer of hope.
Right off the bat in the originals, an orphaned Luke Skywalker is catapulted into his destiny after witnessing his care-takers’ deaths. He fights on.
The Tatooine transplant is then sent to save the princess, train with a 900-year-old Jedi master at Dagobah and rescue his bounty-hunting appren-tice from a Mafioso.
He witnesses Obi-Wan Kenobi die. He fights on. He loses his dueling hand. He fights on. Quickly after learning his father is the corrupt tyrant puppeteering the Empire, Luke is holding him in his arms as he dies.
Luke fights on to restore principles
once set in place by the Old Republic based on preserved peace and justice mandated by Jedi guardians.
Morals like this have trended into col-lege courses like “Star Wars and Philoso-phy” at Adams State University in Colo-rado and the Temple of the Jedi Order religion, as reported by USA Today and BBC respectively.
As for the legacy, Lucas still stands as a creative consultant for the projects in motion, and with last month’s trailer preview, Disney’s takeover doesn’t seem like a complete trap.
Abrams and Disney are our only hope, and we love the idea of Lucas on hand. He knows.
With a disturbing amount of faith, this might be the duo we’re looking for.
‘May the fourth’ be with youGeorge Lucas’ ’77 space opera carries on from its looming Space Destroyer opening scene into a franchise that thrives, and continues to march forward.
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Douliery-HaHn | aBacaPreSS.coMTed Cruz speaks onstage at the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida, USA. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has confirmed that he is running for the US presi-dency in 2016, becoming the first Republican to declare his campaign.
With over a dozen hopefuls for the republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is the least likely to pull support from the GOP because of his overly conservative politics.
A telephone poll conducted by ORC International in April that surveyed 435 republicans found only 7 percent of potential voters in favor of Cruz—sixth place on the list of republican hopefuls led by Jeb Bush with 17 percent.
Deporting immigrants, denying climate change, fighting gun-control and opposing gay marriage are issues that may all seem consistent with republican agendas, but when they are being pushed by an uncompromising, right-winger like Cruz, they become issues of division rather than unity.
If a filibuster reading of “Green Eggs and Ham” as an attempt to stop the Affordable Care Act wasn’t example enough of Cruz’s stubborn time wast-ing, his leadership of a charge to shut down the government over immigra-tion last year cements it further.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) com-mented on Cruz’s rally for a shutdown and demonstrates the GOP’s frustra-tion with Cruz’s antics.
“You should have an end goal in sight if you’re going to do these types
of things, and I don’t see an end goal other than just irritating a lot of people,” Hatch said, according to the Boston Globe in March.
Cruz is recently better known for his denial of climate change, which coincides with his constitutionalist crusade for fewer restrictions on the
energy sector including oil and coal industries, according to the Washing-ton Post in March.
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of smaller government and reduced restrictions on the private sector, the sections of the party that Cruz needs to win over— liberal and moderate re-publicans— do not favor his environ-mental ideology.
A survey released late last year by Yale School of Forestry and Environ-mental Studies found liberal repub-licans to be 71 percent and moderate republicans 74 percent in favor of regulations on carbon emissions. Ad-ditionally, the two groups averaged 65 percent believing that climate change is actually happening, which Cruz holds firmly is a ploy for government control.
Cruz has little chance at being Commander in Chief of anything. His single-minded approach to many of the country’s most pressing issues has locked him out of gaining the republican nomination— much less, the approval of the people.
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49ers fall in championship
The Long Beach State softball team ended its final road trip with a straight sweep of Cal Poly over the weekend in San Luis Obispo.
The 49ers (25-24, 12-6 Big West) took the series from the Mustangs (22-30, 5-13) Saturday in a double header, with sophomore pitcher Christina Clermont pitching 11 total innings to help LBSU take the win.
Clermont allowed only five hits over her 11 innings pitched Saturday after-noon, after relieving senior Christian Carbajal in the sixth inning of the sec-ond game.
LBSU took the first game of the dou-ble header 2-1 with a home-run from freshman infielder LT Torres to drive in the game winning runs.
The second game of the day went into extra innings, with freshman infielder Lauren Macleod scoring the go-ahead run for the 49ers in the top of the ninth.
On Sunday afternoon the 49ers took an early lead over the Mustangs, as freshman outfielder Hannah Cook-son crushed her first home run to give LBSU a 2-0 lead in the second. Cookson totaled three hits with two runs batted in to lift the 49ers to an 8-3 win.
LBSU will finish its season at home against UC Santa Barbara in a three-game series starting on Friday.
The No. 7 Long Beach State women’s sand volleyball team fell to the unde-feated USC in the American Volleyball Coaches Association National Champi-onship Match Saturday in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
In their third appearance in the Na-tional Championships out of the four years of the event, the 49ers (16-7) once again advanced to the championship
match. Four pairs of 49ers lost to No. 1 USC
in the semifinal match, dropping the team to the consolation bracket, where they faced off against Pepperdine in a single elimination. LBSU crushed the Waves, earning a re-match against the Trojans in the National Championship Match.
With LBSU making it to the team championship match, two 49er teams earned a bid in the single elimination round of 16 for the AVCA Pairs Cham-pionship Sunday.
Delainey Aigner-Swesey and Chelsea Cabrajac fell to Shannon Dugan and Mackenzie Phelps of Grand Canyon University in two sets. Anete Brinke and Tyler Jackson lost in three sets to Brittany Tiegs and Nikki Taylor of Ha-waii.
LBSU is set to finish its season ranked No. 2 in the nation.
Christina Clermont secured her ninth complete game of the season, helping the 49ers defeat the Mustangs.
Sand volleyball finished season, dropping to undefeated USC in the AVCA National Championships.
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The Long Beach State women’s tennis team won its 12th Big West championship when it defeated UC Santa Barbara in the conference tour-nament on April 26.
The Daily 49er caught up with head coach Jenny Hilt-Costello, who opened up about some of the chal-lenges of repeating as conference champions, recruiting international players and meeting expectations.
Is it harder or easier to repeat as conference champions every year?
I think it gets harder each year. The more often we win it, I think the bigger the target is on our back with our conference opponents. I think [our opponents] come out with more intensity. I told the girls today that I really truly believe that each confer-ence match we play, we’re beating these girls [who are] playing their best tennis because they come out swing-ing away feeling like they have every-thing to gain and nothing to lose. Ob-
viously, we have something at stake since we’re defending champs and we’ve had such a good record. I don’t think it gets easier, I think it progres-sively gets more difficult.
What were your expectations at the start of the season?
We came back with fairly high ex-pectations for this group. We had a lot of returners from last year. We had a really strong season. We just wanted to continue to build on what we had started last season. I think we’ve made some really good progress with this group, and I think again going into next we’re only losing one player. [We have] one freshman coming in. I think we can continue again on what we’ve built on. [We had] high expec-tations for a very young, but experi-enced group because we had a lot of returners from last year.
Are recruits competing against each other to try to make it to LBSU?
There are a lot of strong programs out there. Recruits are all looking for different things. Really, my biggest concern when recruiting a player to come in is I want somebody who is still very motivated about their ten-nis. The college scholarship is not the ending point for them, but the begin-ning of a new chapter of their tennis career.
I also want someone who wants to be here at LBSU; this is their No. 1 choice, this is where they want to be. [We want players who] like what we
have to offer in terms of tennis, aca-demics and [who are] really on board straight away. I don’t want to have to convince somebody that this is the right spot for them. So those are re-ally the two main things I’m looking for, and I think we’ve been getting those kind of players for the last three or four years.
Why do you think you’ve been so successful recruiting international players?
I was telling this to someone the other day. With all the social media and Skype and things like that, it really isn’t that much different than recruiting American kids. Really the only difficulty at times becomes bringing them in potentially on a vis-it. Logistically, sometimes that isn’t possible.
We’re able to talk to them via Sky-pe and get some face time and things like that. They send me videos of them playing a match, which obviously is not like seeing them in person, but it’s almost as good. They just set up a camera and let it record the whole time. We’re able to see a lot and get to know them quite a bit even though they’re so far away. It’s become a lot easier. The world has become a lot smaller with all this social media.
How does having a winning repu-tation affect recruitment?
It’s helpful, especially for those players who are looking at this as the next step [after] their college career. They want [to go to] a program where they’re going to develop, and they want a coach that’s interested in their goals and helping them achieve those. I think we have a great record of de-veloping our girls.
The main focus of my job is not just winning Big West titles, but making sure that each and every one of these girls in May is a better tennis player than they were when they started in September. If they haven’t made im-provement on the court where they feel better as a player, I haven’t done my job.
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Head coach Jenny Hilt-Costello utilized a variety of strategies in route to another NCAA Tournament appearance.
LBSU tennis coach sets lofty standards
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Long Beach State completes a three-game sweep in the series matchup against its host Cal Poly with an 8-3 win on Sunday.
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Long Beach State outfielder Zack Rivera swings at a pitch during the Dirtbags’ matchup against Hawaii on Sunday at Blair Field.
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ble and a base hit. “We didn’t make enough quality
decisions,” Buckley said. “Some of its IQ and some of its talent.”
Hawai’i kept the pressure up and put two more runs on the board to take their first lead of the game 6-4. Freshman righty Darren McCaughan entered the game in the ninth inning, but a bunt, a throwing error and a single made it 7-4. The Dirtbags didn’t score again, and Hampson attributed it to the team not taking
good at-bats late in the game.“It’s kind of like the story of the
season so far,” Hampson said. “We take a couple steps forward, but then it seems like we take a couple steps back.”
The Dirtbags will hit the road this week and take on UNLV Tuesday at 3:05 p.m.
