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Homecoming 2002
By Courtney
Pranin
Special to the Online Forty-Niner
In an eventful
overtime basketball game on ..., the Long Beach State Men's
basketball team claimed their Homecoming game event with an
83-80 victory over Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
The Game
The Cal Poly Mustangs
lead the game in the first half, but were challenged after
half time as the 49ers kept up with a point by pointpoint-by-point
battle. With seconds left the 49ers scored tyingtied the game
at 75 points. The five minute overtime seemed to last for
hours. In the end, the 49ers dominated. More details about
the game, including a play-by-play account, can be found at
www.longbeachstate.com
Those Tailgaters
The Homecoming
day's events began with a tailgate party in the Pyramid parking
lot, attended and sponsored by. Mmoore than 25 clubs and organizations
drove their cars onto the lot to house their own tailgate
parties. With cars, tables, chairs and barbecues, some clubs
seemed to bring everything but their kitchen sinks. The highlight
had to be a dunk tank, which was rented by one of oura campus
fraternity. fraternities.
The Administrative
Perspective "Successful Event"
Chris Dollar, the
Associated Students Inc. Executive Administrator, thought
the pre-party was a successful event.
"I was very pleased with the student participation. The actual
tailgate portion was a groundbreaking event that had such
a strong turnout. Everyone really behaved and most of all
had a good time."
If you're interested
in getting involved with or learning more about Associated
Student Government Inc., check out their web site at www.csulb.edu/org/asi/
Those Fun Games
Alumni Association,
A.S.I. Government and President Scholars shared the remaining
parking lot with a variety of activities. A.S.I.'s Government's
featured a variety of competitions, such as a water balloon
toss and a whipped-cream eating contest. The bestOne of the
most popular events was had to the "Go Beach Marshmallow eating
contest," in which." Each contestant had to stick marshmallows
in their his or her mouth and then attempt to say "Go Beach."
Tyrone Robertson won the game with 23 marshmallows in his
mouth.
Other chart toping
events featured The Superslide, a rock climbing wall, and
an oversized boxing ring.
The Tailgate
Program
With anAn hour
before the game, Adam Clark, the ASI Sport and Sprit Commissioner,
who was in charge of the tailgate event, took the stage for
a pre-game program. The PAC dance group began the show with
an upbeat co-ed dance program.
What tailgate would
be complete without the Dance Team or the Cheerleaders? Both
teams helped to pump up the crowd with their enthusiastic
perreformances. President Bob Maxson congratulated the teams
on their continued success at their national competitions.
Interested in finding out more about our CSULB cheerleaders
or ourand dance team? Check out http://www.longbeachstate.com/local/cheer.html
The Royalty
The program concluded
with ASI President Wayne Stickney-Smith and Ria Superville,
Senator for College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, introducing
the 2002 Homecoming Court, Homecoming King Josh Edrington,
and Queen Rosa Hernandez. This year, 8 eight women competed
for Homecoming Queen, while 5 five men fought for King.
The announcement of declared royaltythe winners was not made
until half time.
Who was the Royalty?
The Candidates
The Princesses
Queens
* Charlene Bolding
* Gina Garcia
* Lisa A. Herbst
* Rosa Hernandez
* Kelli Jonkey
* Kellee Parker
* Courtney Pranin
* Bethany Rausch
The Princes
Kings
* Nitesh Rastogi
* Shahrokh Sheik
* John Pabon
* Jeremy Harris
* Josh Edrington
One of the princesses,
Bethany Rausch had her opinion about postponing the decision
about who the queen and king were. "I was so nervous, I just
really wanted to know. Man the first half seemed to take forever."
For biographiesy's on each candidate you can check out the
Daily 49er story on at www.csulb.edu/~d49er
A Spirited Game
3,401 people piled
into the pyramid to watch the 49ers beat Cal Poly. With Beach
Pride in the aAir, the fans cheered the way to victory. ASI
President Wayne Stickney-Smith was impressed with the attendance.
"The significance
was that the students came out in force. All student areas
were filled to capacity. We call our spectators the 6th man.
The 6th man helped our team become super human. The team came
from behind to get it in overtime,." he said.
Want to show your
Beach Pride more often? Keep up with spirit events on www.beachpride.com
Royalty Declared
A little unintended
moment of suspense was added to the crowning of the new Homecoming
King and Queen, when the envelope announcing the new queen
got misplaced. It the end, President Maxson came to the rescue
with the missing envelope with Rosa Hernandez's name.
Last year's royalty
When half time arrived the court was called to center stage
to hear the verdict. Last year's royalty, Amy Wiedeman and
Mike Braga passed on the reign to the new King and QueenJosh
Edrington and Rosa Hernandez. The announcement came easy for
the king. Wayne opened the envelope and introduced Josh Edrington.
Then the time came for the Queen. Wayne and Ria each looked
at each other hoping the other person had the envelope, neither
one did. The envelope was missing and the girls were growing
more nervous by the second. Then President Maxson came to
the rescue. He wanted to introduce the new Queen. As the girls
took deep breathe in, the envelope was opened and Rosa Hernandez
heard her name as the new Queen.
Pictures of the
crowning can be seen at www.csulb.edu/~d49er.
The Pictures
The pictures were
taken by Raul Alcala, Director of Activities, for Associated
Student Government. Credit needs to be given to him.
The Links
* www.longbeachstate.com
* www.csulb.edu/org/asi/
* http://www.longbeachstate.com/local
/cheer.html
* www.csulb.edu/~d49er
* www.beachpride.com
The Interviews
* Chris Dollar,
ASI Executive Administrator
* Wayne Stickney-Smith ASI President
* Bethany Rausch, Homecoming Princess
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