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sports
Beach roundup
Dirtbags take
out frustrations on Lions
Baseball:
Eleven-run third inning helps LBSU blow out LMU.
Staff reports
Long Beach State
wiped out a three-game losing streak with a 19-9 shellacking
of Loyola Marymount in a nonconference baseball game Tuesday
at Page Stadium in Los Angeles.
Coming off a three-game
sweep at the hands on Big West Conference rival UC Irvine,
The Dirtbags took an early 2-0 lead and blew the game open
with 11 runs in the third inning - the second time in a week
LBSU has scored over 10 runs in an inning.
The game was far
from a pitchers duel on either side. The Dirtbags banged out
20 hits, while LMU had 19. After a scoreless first inning,
LBSU scored in every other inning but the ninth; the Lions
scored in every other inning but the second.
Dirtbag starter
Daniel Eisentrager (7-3) gave up 10 hits and three earned
runs in four innings to pick up the victory.
Among the gaudy
numbers for the Dirtbags included Nick Covarrubias’ four
hits, three runs scored and three RBIs, Paul McAnulty’s
two hits, four RBIs and three runs scored, and Chris Genung
and Nick Orlandos with three hits and two RBIs each.
Chris Wright had
two hits, two runs scored and two RBIs for the Dirtbags. The
two hits - a two-run double in the second and a single in
the seventh - tied Chuck Lopez's LBSU’s career-record
for hits with 245.
Covarrubias, McAnulty
and Jeremy Reed all homered for the Dirtbags. Reed also scored
three runs and stole his team-leading 15th base of the season.
Reed and Tim Hutting, who had two hits, scored three runs
and had two RBIs, each extended their hitting streaks to 12
games.
In other Beach
athletics:
Four ‘Niners
All-Big West - The women’s tennis team, which won the
Big West championship last week, placed four of its players
on the All-Big West team this week.
Sophomores Anastasia
and Alena Dvornikova were each named to the first team in
singles, and also teamed to make the first team in doubles.
Anastasia Dvornikova was 28-9 (including the fall season)
in singles this season, and Alena Dvornikova was 27-7. The
sisters teamed to go 19-5 in doubles.
Sophomore Lindsay
Marvel was named to the second team and freshman Laura Thomas
was named honorable mention. Marvel and Thomas, the 49ers’
No. 2 doubles team, were named to the second team in doubles.
Marvel had a 23-14
singles record this season, and Thomas finished 25-6, including
a 20-2 mark this spring. The duo finished with a 23-5 doubles
record.
Beach signs five
- Men’s volleyball coach Alan Knipe announced the signing
of five recruits to National Letters of Intent.
The five are:
Duncan Budinger,
a 6-foot-8 middle blocker from Encinitas who was selected
to the 2002 U.S. Junior National Team that will train in Colorado
Springs, Colo.
Tyler Hildebrand,
6-4 setter from Mesa, Ariz. who was co-MVP of the Club Cactus
squad that won Bronze Medal at last year's national championships.
Teddy Liles, 6-8
middle blocker from Tucson, Ariz. who was also a member of
the Club Cactus squad that won Bronze Medal at last year's
national championships.
Beau Peters, a
6-5 setter from Huntington Beach who has been a four-year
starter at Marina High School and was named MVP of the 2001
Junior Olympic Tournament
Robert Tarr, a
6-6 outside hitter from Rockledge, Fla. who won the U.S.V.B.
Junior Championships for two-man beach volleyball.
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