Daily 49er, September 18, 2017

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VOL. LXVIX, ISSUE 8 | SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

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Volunteers at the “Ready Long Beach?” emergency preparedness event pretend to be injured during a drill on Saturday, Sept. 16.

SAFETY

CERTainly BLOODY Long Beach CERT, local authorities and sponsors gathered to educate community members on natural disaster preparedness.

By Payton Cōplin Staff Writer

Cal State Long Beach hosted the local Community Emergency Response Team expo geared toward teaching families and the community to be ready for floods, toxic waste, earthquakes and other emergency situations.

The response team organizers aim to educate people about disaster preparedness and trains local resident volunteers in response skills such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization and disaster medical operations. CERT currently serves nine districts within Long Beach.

Patty Dougherty, who leads the Long Beach division of the safety organization, introduced this program to local fire departments, mayor Robert Garcia and city council members in order to share the great work the volunteers bring their community.

“It is about doing the greatest good, for the greatest amount of people, within the shortest amount of time,” Dougherty said.

Each team contains a “pod.” They contain the proper equipment and tools necessary for volunteers to serve citizens who have faced a natural disaster when see CERT, page 2

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EVENTS

The Beach Cafe struts its stuff Performing arts students put on a show this weekend for the fall semester’s cabaret.

By Samantha Diaz Arts and Life Editor

Students got the chance to enjoy sweet treats and even sweeter performances this weekend at the Beach Cafe. The nights consisted of various performances by students from 8 to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday in the Daniel Recital Hall.

The event, organized and sponsored by the Cal State Long Beach chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, gave performing arts students a chance to perform any genre of their choice in front of an audience. Guests watched a variety of performance acts ranging from comedy, heavy metal, choir and pop music.

Students, family members and friends made for a lively crowd, filled with cheers and encouragements. One particular act, the comedic song, “History of wrong guys” from the Broadway play, “Kinky Boots” received the most laughs and applause for the night.

“It was beautiful. I jumped at the chance to do it,” said first year undeclared major Rosalin Sahagun who performed the song.

“It was kind of scary for me because I didn’t know exactly what was going on throughout [the Beach Cafe]. But actually performing it in front of people, it felt like I was home.”

Sahagun was one of many students who seemed at home onstage. Whether they were performing in a group or solo, all the participants appeared comfortable and at

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Numerous acts took the stage, performing pieces as various as jazz, hard rock and classical in a night that could only be described as a musical whirlwind.

ease in front of the crowd. Students were dancing during their songs, making faces at each other, cheering each other on and running onstage to join their fellow performers during their acts.

All performers had three weeks to prepare for the event, which consisted of one week for sign-ups, one week for auditions and one week for rehearsals all leading up to the big night.

“It’s a great way to kick off the semester,” said Blake Larson, president of the CSULB chapter of the ACDA. “It’s just a great opportunity for people to perform in their genre and what they’re really proud of and what they’re talented in, so it’s a great outlet for the students.”

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professional responders are not immediately available to assist. The pods and the included materials cost approximately $120,000 to stock.

Long Beach city officials jumped on board with the program almost immediately and in turn sponsors like Red Cross, LB Gas & Oil, SoCal Edison, Verizon and many more began to assist in extending their services and time to further the success of this program.

The local volunteers showcased possible natural disaster scenarios where they provide basic medical attention such as hands-only CPR, how to purify water with bleach and how to remove water from a water heater for survival.

In addition the Long Beach Fire Search and Rescue team performed a live “jaws of life” car rescue. Speaker Denice Thoman demonstrated “50 ways to use a trash bag” where multiple audience members learned how to create a medical

Larson heads the group that organizes the Beach Cafe each semester, this fall being his first as president. Within the first few weeks of the school year, Larson was in charge of scheduling the auditions, putting together a sound tech team, finding a band from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music and running through rehearsals.

Despite the stress that comes with that comes with organizing the Beach Cafe in a time crunch, Larson said that the opportunity presented to the students makes it worthwhile.

“When we’re studying music [at CSULB], it’s typically jazz, choral, opera or classical,” said Larson. “A lot of people have these talents and want to show them off in different

sling for broken limbs ,make a shelter, construct a rain poncho and make a pillow, all from one single black trash bag.

In addition to the live re-enactments and speakers, CERT introduced “Pulsepoint”, an app designed for the program’s volunteers, will send a text alert informing the volunteer of a local emergency in which they are trained to respond until medical professionals arrive. The volunteers who physically respond and aid a victim during an emergency have been found to double if not triple a person’s chance to live, for every minute a victim goes unaided their chance of living declines by 10% , emergency officials claim.Of multiple vendors who attended the “Ready Long Beach?” event, Verizon and the City of Long Beach extended a service beyond most.

Verizon Wireless Crisis Response Team stands by 24/7 to help community officials and residents stay connected, especially during the event of a natural disaster.

Verizon representative Curtis Mentz and team serve the public and private sector loaning cell phones, wifi hotspots and other communicative gadgets free of charge. Long Beach City Department of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications presented an emergency notification text

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genres like pop music or heavy metal … or they just want to go out and do something funny,” said Larson.

Along with giving students an opportunity to perform outside of class, the night also presented a chance to raise money for ACDA chapter members to attend the state conference in March at the University of Illinois, as well as helping to bring in choral directors to do workshops with the music education students. Guests had a chance to participate in a raffle to win coffee baskets or enter a half-and-half raffle, where the winner receives half the money that was raised from ticket buyers.

Helen Rodriguez, first year English education major attended her first Beach Cafe this weekend, and was pleasantly surprised at the diversity in the acts.

“They were incredible. I actually got chills from all of them,” said Rodriguez who heard about the event from a friend.

“Everyone is really talented. It was insane, I loved it.”

The night came to a close with a performance of Tom Jones’ “It’s not unusual” by second year vocal performance major Natalie Gonzalez. At the end of her performance, choir members and fellow students ran onstage to join Gonzalez and cheer her on.

While the ensemble of students celebrated the close of this semester’s Beach Cafe, Gonzalez ran down to her waiting family an emotional embrace with her mother while singing to her.

“There’s just an energy that you get from everyone on stage and everyone in the audience and there’s just so much adrenaline and good energy from everyone and it’s just so much fun and exciting every single time,” Gonzalez said.

alert system for those who live or work in Long Beach are informed with vital emergency information. Residents can sign up online through the city’s website www.longbeach. gov. Once subscribed, in the event of an emergency you will be sent a voice, text and email alert to inform a person of any immediate emergency that occurs near your GPS location.

One can join to become a Long Beach CERT volunteer through a few simple steps. The training program spans over the course of 26 hours. It is lecture based learning fused with hands-on training. From this program one can learn the importance of working within a team and making your safety and others, a priority. Upon completing the course a volunteer is committed to being a prepared citizen for their community for both big or small disasters. CERT classes are offered in two different formats throughout the year with one weekend class or the choice of attending a seven week program.

The seven-week program meets once a week for approximately four hours and the weekend class begins on a Friday night, extending into an all day course on both Saturday and Sunday. Classes are available for sign up by visiting CERT@ longbeach.gov.

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A warm welcome to dorm life, for some

As new residents get settled into their new homes, many older students have advice to give them.

By Sarah Vehrs Staff Writer

Late nights, loud roommates and questionable sounds coming from a neighbor’s dorm room.

For some new students, the transition into residential life is full of unforeseen experiences, while for others, it is everything they expected.

Cal State Long Beach dormitories Hillside and Parkside house most of those who use campus housing, but Beachside offers an off campus dorming experience to students.

Lupita Gallegos felt like her transition into dorm life in the Hillside suites at CSULB went as smoothly as possible, but it was not until she saw the tears stream down her mother’s face that she realized she would be saying goodbye to her best friend for the

first time.

“That’s when it finally hit me that I was leaving,” Gallegos, a freshman studying criminal justice said. “My roommate and her mom were very welcoming to me though. So, it made me feel at ease, because I know if I’m ever unable to reach my mom, my roommate’s mom will be able to help me.”

Several new students felt like one of the biggest changes they had to get used to was the sudden amount of freedom that comes with moving away from home.

However, that also brought on a lot of stress to make friends and adjust to the busy campus.

“I realized that I isolated myself a lot my first year,” Caroline Serrano, a junior psychology major, dorming in the resident’s hall Los Alamitos said. “I wish I could tell my freshman self not to be scared, and to try to explore and hang out with new people.”

Bryan Tran, a transfer student in his third year at CSULB, said that making friends was easy for him, but he struggled with the peer pressure associated with night life. He had to get over the

Residential Assistants host various events for dorming students throughout the semester.

fear of missing out on parties so that he could set his priorities straight.

“I felt like getting into the party scene was difficult, but now that I’m older I know that it’s not necessary,” said Tran, a senior industrial design major.

Although there are plenty of opportunities to get involved on

campus, most freshmen aren’t aware of many of the resources available. Roxanne Labat, a junior majoring in civil engineering, felt like she spent her first year hiding in her dorm room rather than making connections with people.

“I was really shy, so I never participated in anything my first year,” Labat said. “I wish I had

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gone to more events, especially since the people here are so friendly and open-minded.”

Living near thousands of other students in the campus housing facilities is convenient and makes the adjustment period much easier for new students, no matter how many times the washing machines break.

CRIME

Car theft, suspicious activity and auto parts burglary

By Payton Cōplin Staff Writer

Noncompliant party At 12:30 p.m. on Sep. 14, two men were seen smoking on the loading dock at the University library. Officers responded when the two men were asked by a campus community member to leave. Upon the officers’ arrival the subjects had fled the area.

Hit and run A student was the victim of a hit and run misdemeanor at 10:00 a.m. on Sep. 12 in parking lot 14B. The student requested police response to document the damage to their car. The student left a note on the suspected vehicle that caused their car damage.

Suspicious circumstance Four subjects at 8:15 a.m. on Sep. 12 were seen camping at Whaley

Park. The four were living on the street across from a childcare facility and upon officer arrival the four were cited and released.

Petty theft A bike was reported stolen at 9:30 a.m on Sep. 12 outside the University Student Union. The bike is described as a “Moto Becane Road Bike Mirage” valued at $550. The student left their bike unsecured to the rack that morning at between Peterson Hall #1 and Lecture Hall 140 during the morning hours of 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Auto burglary At 11:45 a.m. on Sep. 11 a 2002 blue Acura was broken into in Parking Structure #3, level 4. The engine control unit was removed from the student’s vehicle. Also stolen were two motorcycle helmets. Total loss the student faced was $650. There were zero witnesses to this crime.

Corrections: In the article published on Sept. 14 titled “Turning back on Pete?” President Jane Close Conoley has used the terms “LBSU,” “The Beach” and “CSULB” in the past.

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PREVIEW

Check in to the Overlook Hotel

By Carlos Villicana

Assistant Arts & Life Editor

One man’s descent into madness plays host to inyour-face fear in a new maze at Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights. The maze is based on Stanley Kubrick’s film “The Shining,” where ghouls and axes will be brought too close for comfort to daring guests.

Sandwiched between two recreations of the hedge maze seen in the film are sections of the Overlook Hotel, where the horror of “The Shining” is born.

Prior to the maze’s opening, Halloween Horror Nights’ creative director and producer John Murdy gave a tour of the new attraction during which he shared behind-the-scenes stories on the process he and his team took to create this unique experiment in terror.

“A maze is always a balance of those visual things and the visceral scares that we do, ” Murdy said.

Longtime fans of “The Shining,” Murdy and art director Chris Williams made a list of things that they would expect to see in a maze adaptation of the film. The challenge of replicating iconic scenes from a picture about its characters’ internal conflicts meant that Murdy and his team had to change many of the film’s iconic moments into formats that would fit into the “get in and get out” nature of the maze.

“So we just take a scene from a movie and kind of condense the action down to a 10 second repeatable thing that we can do over and over again,” Murdy said.

The scene where Jack Torrance uses an axe to aggressively carve a way into the bathroom and yells “here’s Johnny” at his terrified wife Wendy is one of the spectacles that will be repeated in these roughly 10 second intervals.

“It’s very physical… It’s very exhausting work. Any performer at Horror Nights... they’re probably doing

[their part] about 60,000 times,” Murdy said.

Because props from the films featured at Halloween Horror Nights are not always available, Murdy and his team must recreate sets and objects from findings at places such as antique stores, estate sales and flea markets.

“It just depends on what we’re specifically looking for,” Murdy said. “There’s a lot of [prop recreation] going on in ‘The Shining’ because of the time period.”

However, details such as the movie’s famous orange and red hexagon-filled carpet and Jack Torrance’s manuscript were created from scratch, using

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Behind the scenes (and scares) of Halloween Horror Nights’ new “The Shining” maze.

So we just take a scene from a movie and kind of condense the action down to a 10 second repeatable thing that we can do over and over again.

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the film as their only reference point.

In the film, Wendy Torrance discovers that her husband’s manuscript repeats the phrase “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” on every line of every page. This only adds to the confusion-fueled terror that Jack’s already increasingly aggressive behavior has instilled in her.

“That’s a hard scene to reproduce in a maze because it would just be a typewriter,” Murdy said.

“You’d walk right past it.”

To give this section of the maze a cinematic feeling, the pages cover the walls of a hallway.

“All of these are screen accurate, down to the ty-

pos. If you look really closely at them, you’ll see mistakes,” Murdy said. “But we know that it’s accurate to the film.”

Any mistakes on the manually typed pages were added on purpose, because of their inclusion in the film. Luckily for the writer, only the versions of the pages seen in the maze were required.

“At least I didn’t do as bad to him as Stanley did to his assistant, because ‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ is an English saying,” Murdy said.

“But if you were in Spain, it doesn’t mean anything.

So [Kubrick’s assistant] had to type different versions of it, depending on what market the film was playing in. So there was an Italian version, a French version… I think it was four or five months she spent just doing that.”

Film projections, audio recordings and scene-setting odors are only some of the other tools used in a maze that concludes where it begins — with a sprint through the hotel’s now frozen labyrinth. Multiple performers will portray a progressively freezing Jack Torrance in this section, all after frightened guests seeking escape.

“The last thing you’ll see is Jack frozen in the burm, and you’ll hear the caretaker’s voice say ‘you are the caretaker, you’ve always been the caretaker.’

And now he’s a permanent fixture of the hotel,” Murdy said.

Cal State Long Beach students, faculty and staff can experience “The Shining” and more at Halloween Horror Nights with the College Thursday’s Terror Pass. Purchase of the pass grants entry to every Thursday of the attractions’ run, beginning Sept. 28.

To get the pass, head to ushtix.com/collegediscounts.

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SCHEDULE

Fall into CSULB Theatre Arts

By Roslin Ojeda and Samantha Diaz Staff Writers

Dynamic new works will take center stage at Cal State Long Beach in the upcoming fall semester theatre season. The California Repertory Company, a theatre company comprised of CSULB undergraduates, graduates, faculty and special guests, has been launched in a new direction.

Stories of resistance will be the central theme to the Cal Rep’s 29th season.

“Our name is California Repertory Company so we want all the plays we do to somehow address issues, themes and stories that are relevant to people in California and also to feature a lot of artists and playwrights

from California,” said Jeff Janisheski, chair of the Theatre Arts Department.

The group is also trying to steer the direction of the company outside of a dominantly male cast and directing crew, with half of the fall semester’s productions being directed by women.

The first production of the fall will be “Alice’s Wonderland” on Sep. 23 with Professor Ezra LeBank, head of movement and assistant professor of theatre arts at CSULB, directing it.

The play is filled with high energy and acrobatics as actors portray Alice’s imagination in her journey to find herself while exploring Wonderland.

The second production, “Machinal” will hit stage on Oct. 14. The historical fictional play is a drama about the struggles and liberation of a young woman living in the 1920’s, directed by guest director Julianne Just.

Next up will be “WOKE!: A Revolutionary Cabaret,” a fiery protest piece which tackles today’s biggest social and politi-

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New original work is set to take the stage for the upcoming semester.

I think people are going to sense the excitement, they’re going to sense that something new is happening here and they are going to come.

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cal issues on Nov. 4.. The play is directed by former chair of the program, Joanne Gordon.

“It’s all about social change and our political climate. I’m really excited for it because I really think it’s going to say something important about our society right now,” said Jasmine Vang, a fourth year theatre major who will be featured in the play. “We just want our art to reflect on this activism that we have together and this hope we have for America and our society.”

The last production of the season will be “Polaroid Stories” on Nov. 18., directed by visiting director Eric Hoff. It brings together classical mythology and stories of poverty and addiction.

“I love the play. I’m scared because it’s a challenge, but it’s exactly what I need so I’m excited to get to work,” said Natalia Caraballo, fourth year theatre major who will be playing Eurydice in the play. “It combines Greek Mythology and those character’s stories with truthful stories from homeless and prostituted youth.”

“I think we’re generating a lot of excitement about the new direction of Cal Rep. I think we’re engaging the community of CSULB and of Long Beach more,” Janisheski said. “I think people are going to sense the excitement, they’re going to sense that something new is happening here and they are going to come.”

Actors practice for five weeks, four hours a day in order to prepare for opening night.

When choosing plays for the upcoming season faculty, staff and students wanted to shake things up and create a new identity as to what their theater company stood for and make politically important artwork.

“This particular season took a long time to craft because I really wanted to get the input of students, both undergraduate and graduate, faculty and staff. So we had many meetings for many months about what is the direction of where Cal. Rep is heading and what kinds of plays we wanted to do,” said Janisheski.

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At the main ferry dock in downtown Cruz Bay, sailboats are piled along the shore on Friday, Sept. 15, a week after Hurricane Irma destroyed much of St. John Island, a U.S. Virgin Island.

OP-ED

Climate change is destroying Caribbean nations Rising temperatures lead to harsher hurricanes, and this is detrimental.

By Hannah Getahun Staff Writer

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arlier this week, my brother and I sat and watched the coverage on Hurricane Irma.

“I think the world is going to end; I mean, there’s just too many bad hurricanes,” he said to me as the coverage showed the intense destruction of the hurricane. I laughed. Obviously, this was nothing more than another hurricane season to pass.

Then I heard that Hurricane Irma was the most powerful hurricane recorded in the Atlantic ocean, as the United States National Hurricane Center reported it reached up to 185 mph winds.

Developing nations have been

suffering at the hands of climate change for years. This drastic shift in global warming cannot be justified by the actions of a small nation; instead, industrialized countries such as the U.S. are to blame.

The irony is, developing nations in the Caribbean have a much smaller impact on global warming in comparison to the U.S., yet they have to deal with the worst of it. According to World Atlas, the U.S. is the second highest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet, with a population of higher than 321 million, almost all of whom have access to first world amenities such as electricity and cars. Nations in the Caribbean don’t even place in the top 20.

Most of the repercussions of climate change are felt in the Caribbean countries, with infrastructures unable to take the damage caused by flooding and other natural disasters. The ramshackle and poorly put-together homes can barely withstand

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regular winds, let alone hurricane gusts and torrential rains. It is hard for them to fund hurricane recovery simply because they are impoverished and struggle to afford what’s considered basic necessities such as food and healthcare.

It would seem that the solution to these catastrophic hurricanes would be to gear our attention and concerns toward climate change. It is the clear perpetrator. However, it seems that our reliance on the forces that drive climate change, like our refusal to limit our beef consumption, rampant deforestation and our dependence on gas-guzzling automobiles will make it difficult for us to ever really tackle this problem.

Although he is president of one of the biggest contributors to climate change, President Donald Trump is also one of the biggest advocate of a world without environmental regulations.

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Overflowing support comes to him from various fronts such as Congress and the business sector, who are leading the fight to silence science. It’s rooted in capitalism, a selfish drive for these leaders in Congress and business who are determined to make a profit by any means possible.

We need to start taking responsibility for our massive carbon footprint to prevent the unnecessary suffering of these developing nations. This denial in climate change is detrimental to areas dealing with harsher hurricanes because while Trump’s repudiation shields him from the truth of these catastrophes, developing nations are taking the harsh realities of climate change head on.

What the hurricanes have done is take the effects of climate change and brought it right to their doorsteps. The damage caused by these hurricanes, especially in the poorer Caribbean nations, is devastating. Homes

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in the Caribbean are destroyed because of Irma, with hundreds of people on various islands left homeless or displaced. The island of Barbuda has been completely evacuated, to avoid any deaths.

There have been around 36 reported deaths in the Caribbean from Irma alone.

Hurricanes won’t cease to exist. These nations have barely escaped complete destruction, and the storm season isn’t over.

In fact, it hasn’t reached its peak yet. Maria is headed straight for the Caribbean this week. 2018 will bring in another hurricane season much worse than the last. How much more can these countries in the line of destruction take?

Maybe this incessant barrage of destructive hurricanes is Mother Nature’s way of initiating armageddon, which, to the U.S., might seem preposterous. But to those developing nations who simply cannot adjust to the changing weather patterns, it certainly could be.

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LBSU roundup The 49ers falter in Riverside.

By Luke Ramirez

Assistant Sports Editor

The Long Beach State cross country program got off to a great start in the first event last week, but were not able to carry the momentum into Saturday’s meet.

The women’s team finished 16th with 492 points, and the men’s team placed 22nd with 575 points at the UC Riverside Invitational in Riverside.

Both the men’s and women’s team faced tracks that were much longer than the first meet, as the women jumped from a 4,000-meter course to a 6,000-meters, and the men went from 5,000 to 8,000 meters.

Junior Mikayla Florez led the women to a team win at the Pepperdine Invitational on Sept. 1 thanks to her first place finish among a field of 44 runners. Florez had the best time on her team again (21:28.0) and was the 56th

runner to cross the finish line.

The reigning Big West cross country athlete of the week will try to put the disappointing finish behind her and return to winning form.

The top women’s time was turned in by UC Santa Barbara runner Jenna Hinkle at 19:59.8 while Arkansas made the long trip to southern California well worth it, with a dominating 36-point team victory.

On the men’s side, senior George Martinez was the top LBSU runner after placing 89th with an 8K time of 25:30.1. The 49ers took 22nd place in a field of 32 teams, improving on their performance in the first dual-meet of the season.

Southern Utah took home the men’s team title with 30 points and Utah Valley’s Tyson Lambert got the individual win with a time of 23:53.8.

LBSU will have a quick turnaround when it travels to Las Vegas for the UNLV Invitational at Craig Ranch Regional Park. The women will be back to running a 4K course while the men are back to 5K.

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Senior George Martinez was the top LBSU runner in the UC Riverside Invitantional in 89th place.

WOMEN’S GOLF

49ers will look to get 2017 season started LBSU tees it up in Colorado this week.

By Luke Ramirez

Assistant Sports Editor

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The women’s golf team prepares for their first competition of the 2017 season. The 49ers will playing in Colorado for the Colonel Wollenberg Bill Ptarmigan Ram Classic.

The ladies of the Long Beach State women’s golf team will compete for the first time this fall season when they travel to Fort Collins, Colorado for the Colonel Wollenberg Bill Ptarmigan Ram Classic hosted by Colorado State.

The team is full of experienced returners who will be looking to put together a strong campaign this year.

Leading the team is sophomore Euna Pak who had three top-10 finishes for the 49ers last season, including ninth in the Big West Championship last season. She qualified as LBSU’s No.1 for the first event and will try to set the tone for the rest of the team.

Pak leads a team consisting of junior No. 2 Haley Tygret, senior No. 3 Savannah Knox, junior No. 4 Cara Baker and senior No. 5 Jennifer Yu. Junior Brenna Fox and sophomore Holland Shourds

will also be competing for the 49ers this week as individuals.

Yu placed fifth in the Big West Championship last season and will also be looked to as a veteran presence on the team.

Head coach Joey Cerulle enters his sixth season at LBSU and will have some new help at his side in the form of assistant coach Kortnie Maxoutopoulis. Together, the goal will be improving on the success the team had last season as sixth place finishers in the Big West Conference.

This week, the 49ers compete as part of a 14-team field including conference rivals UC Irvine. The opposing teams should provide a great challenge for this promising LBSU team.

All three rounds will be contested at Ptarmigan Country Club, a par-72 course that will play 6,384 yards.

First round action starts Sunday with the second and final round takes place on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. Live scoring updates can be followed on golfstat.com for the Colonel Wollenberg Bill Ptarmigan Ram Classic.

FAST FACTS — LBSU WOMEN’S SOCCER EAST COAST ROAD TRIP

WOMEN’S SOCCER VS UCONN (THURSDAY)

WOMEN’S SOCCER VS ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY (SUNDAY)

• Final score 3-2 double overtime win.

• In the 13th minute LBSU freshman Kayla Cannon scored her first collegiate goal. She was assisted by junior Dana Fujikuni.

• In the 40th minute freshman Rola Badawiya scored her second goal of the season.

• Going into double overtime, sophomore Kaitlin Fregulia scored the game-winning goal off a corner kick from senior Allie Emmons.

• Final score 1-0 win • In the 34th minute junior Rocio Rodriguez scored her second goal of the season. Rodriguez was assisted by Cannon.

STATS • Total shots: LBSU 13, St. John’s four •Corner kicks: LBSU two, St. John’s six • Saves LBSU: one, St. John’s five

8 SPORTS

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Sophomore Libero Hailey Harward and the rest of the 49ers worked hard against No. 13 UCLA in Friday’s match at the Walter Pyramid.

Joseph Kling | Daily 49er

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

LBSU closes non-conference on a high note The 49ers were able to find their groove, winning two in a row at the Walter Pyramid.

By Kevin Colindres Staff Writer

Joseph Kling | Daily 49er

Freshman Monika Simkova had 11 of the 49ers’ 50 kills against Montana State in Saturday’s match at the Walter Pyramid.

After extending its losing streak to nine, the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team looked to bounce back on Saturday in a double header against the San Francisco Dons and the Montana State Bobcats.

The 49ers cruised past the Dons, sweeping them 25-19, 25-19, 25-16 to win their second game of the season.

Energy played a huge factor in the match, as the 49ers (3-10) came out in each set with a sense of urgency. LBSU showed consistency throughout the match, hitting a season best .369 with only seven hitting errors.

Sophomore middle blocker, Kjersti Norveel, put up a career-high 10 kills on only 15 swings, while also adding three digs and four block assists.

“It feels really good because this feels like the first game where we can actually trust each other,” Norveel said. “In other games we weren’t sure if we could do it or not, but now we know that we can trust the system.”

With only a few hours to prepare, LBSU played against the Montana State Bobcats.

The 49ers showed plenty of heart against the Bobcats, coming back from a 2-0 deficit in the match to win it in five.

In the first two sets, LBSU stayed close to the Bobcats but could not hang on down the stretch.

Both teams seemed to be evenly matched, but the 49ers faced a recurring situation in not being able to execute near the end of sets.

After the 10-minute intermission, LBSU came out as a completely new team. The 49ers were unbothered by the position they were in, and just took the match a set at a time. They dominated the third set taking a 21-12 lead and never looked back. The 49ers finished the third set on a 4-2 run

winning the set 25-14.

The fourth set showed more of the same starting it off with a 7-4 lead and extending it to 14-9.

Momentum did not leave the 49ers finishing the set on 11-5 run, taking the set 25-14. The match was evened up at 2-2 and the Walter Pyramid was filled with excitement.

The 49ers were unstoppable in the fifth set taking an early 8-3 lead. The Dons could not keep up with LBSU’s energy and were stunned by the 49ers performance. LBSU took the fifth and final set 15-5 and completed the comeback. The reserves ran onto the court to congratulate the starters and the Walter Pyramid was electrified.

Freshman Radi Marinova posted eight kills, while also adding a career-high 14 digs and six blocks. Patterson had a great game with 32 assists, eight digs and five blocks.

“We battled hard and this was a great finish before we start conference play next week,” Marinova said.

Before winning two in a row, Long Beach State looked to regroup at home when it took on No. 13 UCLA on Friday night. The 49ers dropped the match in four sets, but showed plenty of heart against the Bruins. With a loss to the Bruins, the women’s volleyball team extended its losing streak to nine games.

The Bruins came out with an intensity that the 49ers could not level with throughout the match.

UCLA consistently blocked LBSU’s kill attempts, wearing them down in the process.

The 49ers understood what they were going up against but just could not hang on. Though defeated, head coach Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer was proud of her team.

“We weren’t able to execute our game plan how we wanted to,” McKienzie-Fuerbringer said. “We are improving and starting to implement what we’re doing in practicing much better.”

Senior setter Alexis Patterson had a double-double with 26 assists and 11 digs, and junior defensive specialist Gigi Alex made her return with five digs.

LBSU hits the road on Tuesday to begin Big West Conference play against UC Riverside.