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Beach hoops rebound
after rough start
Staff reports
Whose the hottest
team at Long Beach State? As of press time, the answer had
to be the women's basketball squad.
The Beach, which lost its first six contests, rattled off
eight wins in its next 10 games to even its record at 8-8,
including a 4-2 mark in the Big West Conference.
The 49ers went into the winter break with an 0-4 record, then
lost its next two games -- at Indiana, 88-56, Dec. 16 and
at Northwestern, 54-39, Dec. 18 -- to fall to a season-worst
0-6.
The tide turned for The Beach soon after. The 49ers recorded
their first victory of the season Dec. 21 by beating homestanding
University of San Francisco, 85-77, then returned home to
host The Beach Classic. The 49ers routed St. Francis (NY),
106-58, Dec. 27 to advance to the championship game, where
they defeated Fairfield, 83-77, the following night to claim
the title.
The Beach blew out visiting Centenary, 95-55, Dec. 30 to enter
Big West play with a 4-6, but the 49ers dropped an 89-78 decision
Jan. 3 to host UC Riverside -- a team playing its first Big
West Conference game ever -- in their conference opener.
While a loss to a school playing its first season in Division
I could have been devastating, the Beach responded to win
its next four games to improve its conference record to 4-1
-- a 91-60 win Jan. 5 at Cal State Fullerton, home victories
over UC Irvine (91-60) Jan. 10 and Idaho (68-57) Jan 13, and
an 83-62 triumph over Cal State Northridge Jan. 18.
Despite a 72-69 loss to Pacific Jan. 20, the 49ers stood in
fourth place in the Big West standings as of last Wednesday.
Ekuah Ramsey leads LBSU in scoring with a 14.3 point per game
average and Crystal Givens is second at 12.9 ppg. Glory Johnson,
who was named Big West Player of the Week for the last week
of December, is averaging 10.3 ppg.
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Crystal Givens , averaging 12.9 points per game,
is one of the reasons the women's basketball team has won
eight of 10 games.
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