Daily 49er, March 12, 2018

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

VOL. LXVIX, ISSUE 59 | MARCH 12, 2018

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Stackin decimellons Four sophomores or rising juniors are accepted into the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program each year.

By James Chow

Senior News Assistant

Photos by Adriana Ramirez | Daily 49er

Sam Sierra, a representative of multiple tribes, was one of the children participating in this year’s 48th Annual CSU Puvungna Pow Wow & Outreach event Saturday and Sunday. Members of a dance regalia, below, participate in a group dance with other members from multiple tribes.

Preserving the Pow Wow

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he central quad, usually occupied with napping students and darting squirrels, became a flurry of colorful cultural revelry this weekend during the 48th annual American Indian Pow Wow. The melodic chants and the tinkling of bells drew hundreds of community members onto Cal State Long Beach grounds. Attendees traveled from all over the state, bringing colorful shawls, headdresses and jewelry to demonstrate traditional dance and catch up since last year’s event.

The Cal State Long Beach campus is built on American Indian land, specifically that of the Tongva tribe, which created a sense of homage for those who call the campus home.

“It’s important to remember what the land is and where we stand,” said Victoria Aguilera, alumnus and member of the Tongva tribe. “You should always come back to where you started.”

For the Pow Wow photo essay, see page 4.

The Cal State University foundation awarded a $442,000 grant for the university’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program last month.

The purpose of the grant is to provide undergraduate students with academic training and financial support in order to help them with their pursuit of a doctoral degree.

According to Angela Locks, director of the office of undergraduate research services and principal investigator in the program, the grant will extend from 2018 to 2021.

“The 2018 cohort will include four sophomores and each following year of the grant a new group of four sophomores/rising juniors will join the program,” Locks said in an email.

Fellows involved in Mellon Mays will work with faculty on research projects, participate in a summer program with other members and continue their research for their final two years in the university.

According to The Andrew W. Mellon’s Foundation, the program aims to increase diversity on academic campuses and provide resources for underrepresented students to achieve financial success at the highest levels in universities. The foundation has expanded to almost 50 campuses around the country. see GRANT, page 3

BRANDING

Beachboard switches school logo on its website Despite the LB and CSULB interchangeability, the latter remains the official name of the university.

By James Chow

Senior News Assistant

Students logging onto Beachboard may have noticed a small change in the website’s interface last week.

Academic technology services replaced the “LB” with “CSULB” logo in the top left

corner of the website March 5, bolding the last two letters of the acronym, CSULB. The Long Beach State modified old-English “LB” that was replaced has typically represented the athletics department, while the other personifies the university’s academia.

While this is a subtle change, it remains as the newest chapter in the conversation about Cal State Long Beach’s dual identity — and the perceived tendency to seesaw between the two.

Andy Hoang, associate vice president of marketing and communications, told the Daily 49er through email that he wasn’t aware of the logo change at the time of the

switch.

The university’s recent rehash of branding and name discrepancies stemmed from a special order discussed in Sept. 7 of last year at an academic senate meeting that allowed for the interchangeability of CSULB and LBSU, though the latter is primarily used for marketing campaigns. The LBSU logo, though its usage aligns primarily with athletics, works better with the university’s #NoBarriers campaign, according to President Jane Close Conoley.

Nevertheless, CSULB is still used for official documents and the website, and there are no plans to change the name, according

to the meeting’s minutes.

“Both logos are approved for campus use,” said Shawna Dark, associate vice president of academic technology. “The official name for our campus is CSULB.” For some students, other changes such as the different course backgrounds eclipsed the logo change.

“With the yellow color [on the old logo] it was easier to see it, but I don’t think it’s that noticeable of a change,” said Sherani Perera, english-education major. “I noticed the other changes to BeachBoard, but that wasn’t one that I saw.”

Sarah Amaral contributed to this article.

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Any ‘fin’ goes on Shark Day

The big fish in the sea

Audience members learned about the importance of sharks in the ecosystem.

With shark sightings and numbers on the rise, Long Beach environmentalists look to provide safety for both humans and sharks.

By Edwin Ayala

Contributing Writer

By Sarah Vehrs

Assistant News Editor

Popularized films such as “Jaws” and “Finding Nemo” have long exacerbated the fear of sharks, but on Saturday, Cal State Long Beach and Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell’s office collaborated in hosting Shark Day A new bill proposes a five-year, $4 million budget to fund research, eduin order to dispel the rumors and raise awareness about these forcation and monitoring of white sharks in southern California. Chris ward-swimming marine animals.

Lowe, Cal State Long Beach professor and Shark Lab director, reAs soon as the lecture hall filled, O’Donnell thanked Chris cently contributed to the bill written by Assemblyman Patrick Lowe’s Shark Lab for its research and the numerous lifeO’Donnell. guards in the audience for keeping beachgoers safe.

This would give marine biologists the power to know where Lowe provided information about the presence of juvesharks are, why they hang out in certain California hotspots and nile white sharks in Southern California, specifically about when they will migrate back to the area each year. their migration patterns and increasing population after Last year, there were nine non-fatal shark attacks along the years of protection from overfishing.

Pacific coast, according to the Shark Research Committee’s He talked about the use of underwater trackers, which January report. The victims’ activities before the attack includuse radio waves to send the longitude and latitude of a ed kayaking, surfing and paddleboarding. shark’s location to the campus Shark Lab. From there, According to Lowe, one key aspect of the bill would provide they documented the data. important training to lifeguards.

“The purpose is to better understand shark behav“As a parent, my priority is the safety of our kids,” ior because they are very important to our maO’Donnell said. “This bill is about learning why there rine ecosystem,” Lowe said. are more sharks and how to deal with the inAs much as pop culture has glorified shark crease, so we can keep our kids safe at the beach.” attacks, Lowe emphasized that sharks keep Despite the number of attacks in 2017, some marine mammal and fish populations healthy students who engage in watersports don’t necesand upkeep other vital habitats. sarily believe sharks are predators of humans.

After the presentation, Lowe transitioned into Senior computer science major, Taylor Tobin, is Q&A. One question came from a child who inthe president of the university’s surf team and comquired about the white shark’s eating habits. petes in the National Scholastic Surfing Association Col“You know, it’s really hard to determine what exactly lege Series. Tobin said that shark attacks are very unlikely and tend they eat, but we’ve dissected the bellies of some and seen that to occur when people are being unsafe. many juvenile white sharks eat mostly stingrays,” Lowe respond“I think research on sharks is good because, they are becoming ened. Amused by the prospect of dissecting a marine animal, some dangered and [they] need to be protected. More education on them may of the awestruck children in the room giggled. also make people less afraid and more willing to help,” Tobin said. “As Soon after, the audience was escorted to the Hall of Science, where long as the tags are safe for the sharks, I think the study could be really the Shark Lab is situated. good, but the bigger issue is preventing shark finning around the world and Students working at the Shark Lab have the opportunity to conduct their protecting these endangered animals.” own research, according to Jack May, who is working toward a masters in Lowe’s research over the past 12 years has uncovered hotspots or “nursery habibiology at the Shark Lab. tats” in Southern California that these young sharks use: from Santa BarbaCHRIS LOWE “Each student has their own little thing they’re working on, one is ra to Ventura, Santa Monica Bay, Belmont Shore to Huntington Beach and SHARK LAB DIRECTOR studying sea turtles and another student is focusing on the toxicology Dana Point to San Onofre. of thresher sharks,” May said. Currently, he is conducting a project According to Lowe, it is suspected that juvenile sharks stay close to shore which uses drones to monitor leopard sharks in shallow water aggregations. because “they don’t know they are white sharks yet,” so they stay in warmer waters May expressed his satisfaction with the turnout. where they have plenty of sting rays to eat.

“I’m glad we had a full house,” May said. “The more people who know about “They get no training from mom, and they’re completely on their own, so they’re where sharks are located and why, the better we can help protect people at the scared of everything because everything is a threat,” Lowe said. “The safest place for beach.” them to be is in shallow water, and of course that’s where everybody else is.”

In the Shark Lab, parents, children and students were able to view marine aniFunding from the bill will not only provide lifeguards will the capabilities of promals such as starfishes, sea urchins and baby sharks. Many took photos and asked tecting the public from the nearby sharks, but also support the new technology used students involved with the shark lab questions. Children in attendance were esto understand sharks. pecially excited to see the variety of creatures.

In Lowe’s shark lab, telemetry is used to record and transmit data with the use of Shelby Ly, a senior majoring in graphic design, heard of the event through the acoustic transmitters. Sharks are tagged on their dorsal fins or their backs through the CSULB Sustainability page on Facebook. transmitters, an item Lowe refers to “like fit-bits for sharks,” so Lowe will know the “I wanted to check out the Shark Lab,” Ly said. “I’ve always been interested in location of the marine animal. marine animals and conservation.”

Currently, the Monterey Bay Aquarium helps fund the technology. The Northern She said that protecting sharks is a moral and ecologically imperative.

California-based aquarium provides $22,000-30,000 a year for lab research. Lowe is “Even though there are a lot of sharks in our coastal waters, they don’t pose a hopeful that the bill will pass to help with the limited funding, but a lot will depend on threat to us, and we need to monitor their migration patterns and their populathe state’s budget. tion to keep them safe,” Ly said.

“I think it would go a long way, and California would be a leader in that sense, in terms of being proactive on what to do about sharks,” Lowe said.

Echelle Burns, a second-year master’s student who works in the shark lab, said that FAST FACTS everyone in the shark lab is eager to study sharks, but since there is no money, they are all put on different projects.

WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU SEE A SHARK AT THE BEACH? “Most of us in the shark lab don’t even study sharks. The big reason for that is beShark Lab director Chris Lowe offers tips on how to act around a shark: cause there’s not a lot of funding for it,” Burns said. “Everyone comes in and we want to study sharks and then Dr. Lowe tells us we don’t have funding for that, and we have to do something else.”

• Keep your eyes on the shark, make sure it knows you see it To counteract the lack of funding, Lowe allows the graduate students to work on the • If a shark attempts to bite you, stick a hand in its eyes, nose or gills shark project and pitch in when they can. This keeps all students involved in studying • Swim slowly and calmly to shore sharks, but the extra project is unpaid and research findings come slower because there isn’t one person solely dedicated to this project.

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Disturbances, public masturbation and grand theft

By Sabrina Flores

Assistant Photo Editor

Soda thief A professor called the University Police to report a disturbance at the Subway located inside the University Student Union at 5:25 p.m. March 7. The incident involved three male subjects. “[One] subject was involved in verbal altercation with another student regarding stealing soda from the Subway,” Lt. Richard Goodwin said. “We went up there and Subway declined prosecution for taking the soda.”

Officers advised and warned the subject who was responsible for causing the disturbance. No additional action was taken.

Hands off my Bible Officers received a noise as well as a disturbance complaint from an individual in the area of the bookstore at 3:43 p.m. March 5. According to Goodwin, someone attempted to steal another individual’s copy of the Bible.

“The reporting party was not involved [in the incident] but was willing to speak to [the] Police Department if they need contact,” Goodwin said.

The reporting party did not want anything done about the crime, and the subjects involved left once officers arrived on scene.

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Masturbation confrontation A student came into the University Police substation to report that they had seen a male subject masturbating in a white SUV on State University Drive at 8:42 p.m. March 6.

“The vehicle was parked in the front short term parking on the street in front of the SSPA building,” Goodwin said.

“The reporting party saw the subject and then the subject drove off. By the time we got out there the guys in the wind. Somebody that’s doing that doesn’t want to be caught.”

The reporting party could not identify the subject, but said he saw that the person was watching porn on his cell[phone] at the time of the incident.

The subject in question was last seen heading eastbound on Palos Verde avenue; officers currently do not have any information or leads on who the individual might be or whether or not they’re a student.

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Fishy bags spark concern A custodian called University Police to check two bags left on a bench outside of a classroom in the Education 2 building at 12:46 a.m. March 2. “[It] was unknown how long [the backpacks] had been there,” Goodwin said. “The two bags checked okay.

The reporting party just wanted us to make sure the property did not contain anything dangerous.”

Officers left the two bags on the bench where they were found; the employee who called the officers said that they believed they knew who the bag belonged to.

Grand theft Police are currently investigating the theft of $3,500 dollars from a lockbox that was kept in a cabinet in room located in the Hall of Science Building at 3:26 p.m. March 5.

“We don’t have any suspects or any leads on that so far,” Goodwin said.

According to Goodwin, the school has a policy in place for securing and handling money and he is unsure if a violation in the policy resulted in the theft.

Another grand theft was reported in the Theater Arts building at 12:30 p.m. March 6. The item reported stolen was a plastic bag filled with DVDs belonging to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, valued at approximately $1,000.

“The bag was under the reporting party’s desk.

[It was] last seen Thursday night and early Friday morning around 12:30 a.m. March 1,” Goodwin said. “There’s no signs of forced entry. The room where this bag was was shared with three other people. It doesn’t look like we have any suspects or leads thus far.”

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“Undergraduate research is a priority for our campus and is integral to our strategic plan,” President Jane Close Conoley said in a press release on Feb. 14.

“We are grateful for the Mellon Foundation’s generous support of humanities students.”

The foundation doesn’t directly give individual students the award. Instead, the university Mellon Mays Institution selects fellows from a pool of students who formally applied to the program.

According to Locks, all students are encouraged

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to apply, but applications are encouraged from African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and other underrepresented minorities.

A typical eligible student is one who is of sophomore standing, has a GPA of 3.5 or higher and plans to pursue a doctoral degree in fields of study approved by the university’s Mellon institution.

Basic requirements for selection require a completed application, a resume, a writing sample, two letters of recommendation from faculty and an academic transcript.

The deadline to apply is March 14. For specific information of how to send in the application, visit the application and eligibility tab on the university Mellon Mays website.

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POW WOW

A Tongva

Homecoming

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Sam Sierra, top left, who danced in this year’s Outreach event, representing multiple tribes (Adriana Ramirez).

Among the many tables and booths selling homemade items, top rightm dream catchers made of feathers and beads were common (Sabrina Flores). Representatives from multiple tribes, middle, throughout the nation are present at the event to dance and celebrate Native American Culture (Adriana Ramirez). Patricia Lopez, far right, leads the dance as the Head Woman Dancer, left, at this weekends event (Adriana Ramirez).

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‘Proud to Present’ sparks conversation

Newest Cal Rep play creates an overwhelming degree of emotions of present-day issues.

By Shyanne Riberal-Norton Staff Writer

Cal Rep’s latest performance forces us to look at history through different eyes. “Proud to Present” follows the emotionally-charged journey of six actors coming together to present a historically accurate performance about the untold genocide of the Herero, a tribe in Africa, at the hands of German colonies from 1884-1915.

The story begins with a relatable group project dynamic.

The actors, known as generic names like “Black Man” or “White Man,” have continuously fierce arguments, the most consistent topic being whether or not they should read the letters German soldiers have written back home. There is no mention of any violence toward the local Herero tribe in these letters, which is the root of controversy. Three white actors compare the genocide to a “rehearsal holocaust,” implying the Herero genocide never actually oc-

curred, due to the lack of “physical evidence.”

These argument between the actors creates a nervous apprehension that fills the theater, setting the tone for the rest of the performance.

The play picks up speed, enticing a range of emotions due to its whiplash tendencies, constantly switching back and forth between presentation and rehearsal mode, as well as humorous and serious atmospheres.

The play tells the history of the genocide from the point of view of a Herero man writing to his love interest, in an attempt to create a parallel to the German letters. The Herero man speaks about struggles the German letters have omitted which brings an empathetic quality to the drama.

The “director” of the performance, playing “Black Woman,” speaks about her discovery and camaraderie of the Herero people. Her explanation is shut down by the white actors, as they say she doesn’t “own someone else’s shoes.” It is easy for the

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Cal Rep’s latest play, “Proud to Present” addresses issues of historical representation and racism.

audience to see that the white actors do not try to understand her struggle with her lost lineage and instead, they brush her off as unreasonable.

By revealing the actors’ faults, the audience is able to recognize the errors of society categorizing by race and being blind to the realities of history.

There is a lack of understanding between actors that fuels the fire of the arguments throughout

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Forcing viewers to recognize similarities in the people we’ve met, who we are and who we know, “Proud to Present” brings a whole new meaning to breaking the fourth wall.

The play sparks the fire necessary to open up a conversation about our history, the told and and untold versions of who we are today and how we can change the future with that knowledge.

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SCANDAL

Why nobody should care about Trump’s alleged affair

By Dahleen Glanton Chicago Tribune

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ere we go again, getting sidetracked.

This time, we’re allowing a former porn star to distract us from the greatest task facing the American people _ limiting Donald Trump to a one-term presidency.

Stormy Daniels isn’t going to get the job done for us. We’ve got to come at Trump with something much stronger than allegations that he slept with an adult film star a decade before he got to the White House.

Without a doubt, the alleged details that have seeped out thus far are pretty juicy. From the interview Daniels gave InTouch magazine in 2011, we learned that Trump allegedly was reckless enough to have sex without a condom. And that he was rather unspectacular in bed, “textbook generic,” as she called it.

We also found out that Trump was allegedly a textbook cheater as well, calling his mistress from a blocked number and assuring her that she need not worry about his wife. Melania Trump, by the way, had recently given birth to their son.

The only tidbit that has a chance of doing any harm to Trump is the allegation that he was involved in paying Daniels $130,000 in hush money days before the presidential election.

But even that’s a long shot.

Daniels is suing Trump now, claiming that the agreement to keep quiet is invalid because he never signed it. She is champing at the bit to tell her version of the whole sordid affair.

As for myself, I couldn’t care less what she has to say.

I’d rather use my energy in a more productive way _ keeping the heat turned up on Trump for his backsliding policies that do nothing to lift the middle class,

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Adult film actress Jessica Drake in Los Angeles on October 22, 2016. She was listed in the agreement following Donald Trump’s alleged extramarital affair with Stormy Daniels.

raise families out of poverty, keep our children safe from mass shootings, protect the environment, provide health coverage for all or offer a pathway for law-abiding immigrants to become legal citizens.

There is still much work ahead to convince voters in every corner of the country that America cannot afford another two years, much less another four years, of Trump and his enablers at the helm.

While we might get a kick out of watching Trump sweat a little over the details of his sexual prowess, it doesn’t get us anywhere.

We should have learned by now that sexual misconduct does not have the firepower to knock a sitting president out of office.

Presidents faced accusations of infidelity long before Trump, and after the buzz died down, most Americans moved on. We can be pretty certain that Stormy Daniels, or any other woman who claims to have had an affair

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with Trump, isn’t going to be the thing that brings him down.

According to Robert Watson, a historian at Lynn University who has written a book about the sexual indiscretions of U.S. presidents, several are known to have had sexual trysts either before they made it to the White House or while they were there.

While we might get a kick out of watching Trump sweat a little over the details of his sexual prowess, it doesn’t get us anywhere.

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We all know about John F. Kennedy’s alleged affair with Marilyn Monroe while he was president. Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings, the slave with whom he fathered six children, is legendary. And Bill Clinton’s illicit behavior with White House intern Monica

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Lewinsky still makes our stomachs turn.

In his book, “Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal,” Watson reveals juicy tidbits about some of our most beloved heads of state. Some of the stories, at the time, made interesting headlines in the newspapers and juicy gossip behind closed doors. But in the end, the presidents were unscathed.

Take Grover Cleveland, for instance, the 22nd and 24th president. A scandal ensued during his first presidential campaign when it was revealed that the bachelor politician had fathered a child out of wedlock, quite possibly with a prostitute or at the very least, a woman with loose morals.

Right-wing Christian preachers ran with it, portraying Cleveland as a sexual predator who carouses at night and warning that no woman was safe. At campaign events, Republicans would stand in the audience and

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scream, “Ma, Ma, where’s my pa?” After he won, Democrats are said to have added the line, “Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!”

While in office, the nearly 50-year-old president married his 21-year-old goddaughter in a relatively secret ceremony. Cleveland had helped raise the girl after her father, his best friend, died years before. If it hurt him, it was short-lived. Cleveland won the popular vote in his bid for re-election but lost the Electoral College. Four years later, he was elected again, the only president to hold two nonconsecutive terms in office.

According to Watson, Woodrow Wilson’s affair with Clara Peck during his marriage was so well-known that critics called him “Mrs. Peck’s bad boy.” The two often traveled together and stayed at her place in Bermuda, but that didn’t derail his first presidential bid. When his wife died, Wilson began having a very public affair with Edith Galt, whom he ended up marrying more quickly than many thought was appropriate for a man in mourning.

While married to Mamie, Dwight Eisenhower allegedly had an affair with Kay Summersby, his British driver during World War II. It did nothing to tarnish the conservative politician’s image as an ideal family man and father figure, according to Watson. Franklin D. Roosevelt is known to have had multiple mistresses while married to Eleanor, Watson said. Yet he was elected and re-elected four times.

And like Kennedy, his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, also was known for excessive womanizing.

No one would be shocked if Daniels’ allegations about Trump turned out to be true, either.

What’s shameful, though, is how easily we allow ourselves to be distracted by chatter that doesn’t really matter.

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WOMEN’S WATER POLO

49ers sink their competition Long Beach earns its first Big West win over the weekend.

By Samantha Diaz Arts & Life Editor

With a comfortable lead and nine players on the scoreboard, Long Beach walked away with a massive win to close its gloomy home opening weekend at Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.

No. 15 Long Beach ( 8-9, 1-0 Big West) women’s water polo came out strong against George Washington State (7-5) Sunday in its 15-7 victory over the Colonials.

The 49ers’ aggressive defense secured the impressive win over George Washington, as they forced turnovers and steals throughout the match and built on their opportunities.

“It’s nice to be home, it definitely helped us yesterday and today,” head coach Gavin Arroyo said. “The first half we kind of just felt it out a little, but we weren’t really sure about them.

Once it got closer we pumped it out more.”

Coming off their first conference win against No. 16 UC Santa Barbara the day before,

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Long Beach junior attacker Tori Morrissey led the team with three goals in a 15-7 win over George Washington in Sunday’s game.

the 49ers came in pumped up and ready to compete. Long Beach didn’t trail once, securing a lead early on and keeping

the momentum consistent with the help of senior Luiza Moraes’ back-to-back goals in the second half as well as one steal.

“I got in fresh off the bench, so I just wanted to go in strong,” Moraes said. “I just wanted to play strong defense and avoid

getting turnovers. We were supposed to push the tempo and make it our game and that’s what happened third quarter.”

The 49ers shined on the defensive end, forcing multiple turnovers on the Colonials while keeping them scoreless for the first six minutes of the second half.

“We were turning the ball over too much, not enough of our possessions ended with shots,” George Washington head coach Barry King said. “We were able to play good defense but where we got trouble is turning the ball over and that’s where it got away from us.”

Frustration on George Washington’s side was due in large due junior goalie Eirini Patras, who racked up nine saves and one steal to ensure the 49ers win.

“I think we were way more alert in the second half and changing goalkeepers helped us a little bit,” sophomore Maria Mimidi said. “Eirini is a very good goalkeeper...it’s a very good feeling having her in the pool, it makes us feel more confident and comfortable.”

Long Beach will play its next game at 7 p.m. Thursday against Bucknell University at Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.

SOFTBALL

No. 21 LBSU comes up one run shy of No. 3 UCLA A late rally was not enough to propel the 49ers past the unbeaten Bruins.

By Luke Ramirez

Assistant Sports Editor

A sixth inning rally left No. 21 Long Beach State one run shy of tying No. 3 UCLA in the final game of the Louisville Slugger Invitational. The Bruins stayed unbeaten with a 6-5 victory in front of 1,196 fans at the LBSU Softball Complex.

“That was a great game,” UCLA head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez said. “[Long Beach] has great hitting, pitching and coaching, and it was a great way to end the preseason. Games like that can build confidence for both teams going into conference now.”

Long Beach (19-7) broke out for the first run of the game after sophomore designated player Taylor Rowland singled with two outs and two strikes to score junior shortstop Nicole Fry. The early lead came against UCLA redshirt sophomore Rachel Gar-

cia who entered the game 9-0 with a 0.64 ERA. UCLA (24-0) would respond against sophomore pitcher Cielo Meza with a 5-run top of the fourth inning highlighted by a 2-run single by freshman shortstop Brianna Perez with two outs in the inning.

The Bruins collected five runs and five hits in the game against the Long Beach State ace and handed Meza only her second loss of the season.

UCLA redshirt freshman outfielder Aaliyah Jordan hit a solo home run in the top of the fifth that was part of her 4-for-4 day at the plate. The blow would prove to be the difference in the game.

The 49ers had a big inning of their own in the sixth after scoring three runs on three key hits to give UCLA a scare in the late innings. Fry knocked in her second and third RBIs of the game on a double to put her team within one run. Garcia would settle down and retire the next three Long Beach batters and strand the tying run.

“We did a great job of getting ourselves in a position to be one or two hits away from being able

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UCLA starting pitcher Rachel Garcia (00) celebrates after ending a late inning Long Beach rally in the Bruins 6-5 win over the 49ers.

to beat them,” Long Beach head coach Kim Sowder said.

Fry finished the game 2-for-2 with 3 RBIs with a run scored and was a big part of the late game rally.

“My team always fights and I think we can go up against

anyone in the nation,” Fry said.

“This is a good motivator and we’re only going to be working harder from here out.”

The loss made Long Beach 3-2 in its host tournament after its also lost to San Jose State 7-3 on March 9. The 49ers also

had three wins against Michigan State, Boston and San Diego State.

Looking ahead, Long Beach has two home games on the schedule against Texas Tech (168) and Monmouth (6-8) on at 2 p.m. March 14 and 15.

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