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Beach roundup
49er close with
victory
Staff reports
Jeff Wootton's
21 kills lifted Long Beach State to a 26-30, 30-26, 30-27,
30-27 victory over host UC Santa Barbara in a Mountain Pacific
Sports Federation men's volleyball match Thursday that closed
the regular season.
Wootton led four Beach players in double figures kills. Scott
Touzinsky had 14, Tim May 13 and David Lee added 12 as the
49ers improved to 13-17 overall and 9-13 in the MPSF. The
Gauchos fell to 16-10, 11-10.
After dropping the first game, LBSU hit .533 in the second
to tie the match and continued to hit well in the third (.344)
and fourth (.400) games to take the victory.
Mark Ekins had 72 assists for The Beach, who hit .421 for
the match.
LBSU moves on to the MPSF Tournament, where it will play second-seeded
Hawaii in Hawaii Saturday the first round. The 49ers are seeded
seventh.
In other Beach
athletics:
Several
49ers shine in Tempe -- Jon O'Neil finished second in
the shot put with a toss of 63-1 and Rashaad Johnson ran a
lifetime best mark of 46.94 in the 400 meters to finish 11th
at the Sun Angel Invite in Tempe, Ariz.
Other Beach highlights included Connie Jerz finishing third
in the pole vault (12-5 1/2), Emily Forsythe finishing fifth
in the high jump (5-7), Cory Loebl's fourth-place finish in
the discus (175-8 1/4), Frank Rodriguez fifth-place showing
in the javelin (206-8 1/4) and Matt Bates finishing sixth
in the 800 meters with a personal-best 1:52.28.
Beach
signs three -- The Long Beach State women's volleyball
team completed its 2002 recruiting class by signing Kerstin
Doering (Oberschleissheim, Germany), Melanie Fleig (Villingen-Schoenningen,
Germany) and Raimi Mitchell (Buena Park) to National Letter
of Intents for the upcoming season.
Robin Miramontes, who signed a National Letter of Intent in
the fall, walk-on Heather Laundato and Jen Bowman, a transfer
from Northern Illinois, will also join the 49ers for the 2002
season.
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