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Chain-linked fences placed in front of a construction zone near the Language Arts buildings topple over due to high winds and rain Sunday. According to the National Weather Service, the wind speed in Long Beach was at around 18 miles per hour with a single gust of wind recorded at 33 miles per hour. The recorded rainfall in Long Beach Sunday morning was 0.25 inches. Although El Nino is arriving in increments, the storm is expected to subside in early spring.

Winning under pressure LBSU holds off a late Gaucho comeback, then hands the first place Rainbow Warriors their first conference defeat.

By Will Hernandez Assistant Sports Editor

The Long Beach State men’s basketball team followed up its resilient overtime victory against UC Santa Barbara with a 78-64 win over Hawai’i on Saturday night at the Stan Sheriff Center.

LBSU (11-12, 5-3) lost its starting point guard Justin Bibbins in the first half with a hamstring injury and Noah

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Blackwell in the second when he fouled out. Yet, the 49ers maintained the lead for 38 of the 40 minutes.

With 3:37 remaining in the game, Hawaii’s (16-3, 5-1) junior forward Mike Thomas’ layup trimmed the 49ers lead to 66-63.

After that, the Hawai’i home crowd’s intensity reached its peak. However, LBSU did not collapse as it shutout the Rainbow Warriors for the remainder of the game.

The 49ers started putting the game away for good when junior Bradford Jones delivered a pass to sophomore Gabe Levin, who finished with a layup off the glass and extended the LBSU lead to seven with 1:38 remaining.

On the ensuing Hawai’i possession, senior Nick Faust intercepted a pass and extended LBSU’s lead to double-digits by draining a three from the wing.

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Closing out games has been an Achilles’ heel for the for the 49ers this season, but they were able to put the Rainbow Warriors away on Saturday. However, LBSU had a more difficult time doing so on Thursday night against UC Santa Barbara.

Despite some late-game heroics by the Gauchos, LBSU defeated the Gauchos, 80-70, in an overtime thriller inside the Walter Pyramid.

Trailing by three with one second left in Thursday’s game, UCSB’s Michael Bryson pulled up from beyond the arc and drew a foul on Faust that sent Bryson to the charity stripe for three free throws.

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Senior guard Nick Faust goes to the rim in LBSU’s win over UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, Jan. 28, inside the Walter Pyramid.

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Police investigate report of rape This is at least the ninth case of sexual assault reported at CSULB in the 201516 academic year.

By Matt Simon Staff Writer

University Police are conducting an investigation after a female student reported that she was raped.

The student, who is over the age of 18, filed the report with University Police on Jan. 26.

According to Lt. Richard Goodwin, the incident occurred two months ago, classifying it as a “late report.”

This is at least the ninth case of sexual assault reported at CSULB in the 2015-16 academic year.

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LGBT Resource Center closes after theft The investigation is ongoing.

By Lisa Williston Staff Writer

Three Mac desktop computers were stolen yesterday from the LGBT Resource Center.

“We received a report yesterday, Jan. 28, 2016 of a theft of three MacBooks taken from FO4.” Lt. Richard Goodwin said. “The time frame [for the thefts] is Jan. 27, 2016 at about 7 p.m. until about 12 p.m. on Jan. 28, 2016.”

A sign on the door of the center indicated that it will remain closed until further notice.

Campus police did not provide any additional information at this time, as the investigation is ongoing, according to Goodwin.

Assistant Director of Multicultural Affairs John Higgins said the center had no comment at this time.

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A sign on the door of the LGBT Resource Center indicated that it will remain closed until further notice during an ongoing investigation of three stolen Mac desktop computers.

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California State Long Beach will begin construction in April to add 161 more employee parking spaces to Lot 7 on South Campus Drive.

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CSULB to add more employee parking spaces The university will begin construction on Lot 7 in April.

By Lauren Torres Staff Writer

Cal State Long Beach parking will undergo a redevelopment phase this April that will last until August and will impact the flow of parking on campus.

The areas affected will include Lot 7, an employee parking lot and South

Campus Drive and the South Campus Turnaround, both of which have metered parking.

“I was shocked that they would do it in the springtime because we can’t find parking now,” English professor Nancy Strow Sheley said. “I just came back at 1 [p.m.], and I was lucky to find a place. You can’t leave campus and come back for any reason. There are not enough spots now.”

The reconstruction of Lot 7, located right off of South Campus Drive, will include an additional 161 parking spaces, electric vehicle charging stations and solar canopies to provide shade for many of the spaces.

After construction is done, Lot 7 will remain a lot solely for employee use, according to Mike Uhlenkamp, the CSULB Executive Director of News for Government and Media Relations.

Construction will begin right before final exams and commencement, both of which traditionally create parking issues on their own without construction. The Parking Advisory Committee is still developing official parking alternatives for commencement.

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of Brotman Hall will be converted to employee parking only, and employees are also being encouraged to park in parking structure 3 and Lot 11A, at the corner of Atherton Street and Palo Verde Avenue.

“We honestly need more parking, too,” senior geography major Janet Solis said. “Because it’s packed, it took me 40 minutes just to find a parking spot for what was a 10-minute meeting.”

“I don’t think I want to say that I’d rather faculty have parking than student [parking], because I know it’s tough for everybody,” Sheley said. “I was shocked that they were going to

start construction of a parking lot in the middle of a semester basically … that planning of it sounded crazy to me. We need more parking, more parking for students, more parking for faculty.”

After construction, the South Campus Turnaround will be reconfigured to include a specific drop-off area for students and faculty. According to Uhlenkamp, the turnaround currently poses a safety and traffic issue because drivers are continuously slowing down to drop off passengers.

There are no current plans to expand or reconfigure student parking lots, according to Uhlenkamp.

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20 minutes on ‘The Finest Hours’ Co-stars Chris Pine and Casey Affleck sink into their shared shipwreck with the Daily 49er.

By Brooke Becher Contributing Writer

A feral shout rings through phone receivers scattered throughout the states.

“CAN ANYONE HEAR ME? IS THIS A COLD CONFERENCE CALL? HO-HO-HO,” actor, producer and director Casey Affleck trailed on.

“Come on, take this seriously,” a barely-composed male voice belonging to actor Chris Pine incited.

“Back on track,” a female voice, possibly their agent, whipped.

The two had just retired from a red-carpet premiere in Boston, Massachusetts for their latest co-starring performance in Disney’s “The Finest Hours.”

Set in 1952, director Craig Gillespie’s epic retelling of a United States Coast Guard recovery mission on a halved T-2 oil-tanker tells Pine and Affleck’s separate stories. The film ultimately conjoins the two storylines of a survival

and a rescue.

Based on a true story, the CGIpacked action thriller docked in theaters on Friday.

The two stars settled themselves for 20 minutes for questions from a number of college-media outlets in a conference call Thursday evening.

Q: What drew you, Casey, to this project?

Casey Affleck: You know, um, there are a lot of things actually to this. One was that it was filmed in Massachusetts, which I just got [another] project to see. [Also,] I get to come home and work here. And another, I felt like it was a movie where I like what [Disney is] doing. I feel like they make a great effort to make movies that have a strong message and a good story, good characters.

This one is particularly exciting but it also, uh, supports the characters and their core values of Disney. And I, you know, I might sound old-fashioned and hokey but um, it’s kind of refreshing to see a movie like that.

Q: Both of your characters are faced with not only overcoming a fatal storm, but also their personal struggles as well. How can you relate to your character and their determination in the role like that portraying when filming?

Chris Pine: In our own tiny way, being in the film business is hard

enough and there’s a lot of luck involved in it obviously. You face an incredibly amount of rejection. Also, you know, I assume, just by being alive, people feel not a part of the group or not liked or that they don’t have friends, don’t have as many friends as they want or, um, feeling out of place. And I certainly saw that in Bernie. So even though I’ll never know what it’s really like to be a Coast Guardsman, or really never know what it’s like to go up against 70-foot waves and zero visibility and what it’s like to rescue men off a split oil tanker, there are certain kind of general human emotions and feelings that you can attach to and bring your own experience to.

Q: Did you learn or take away anything from the experience of playing your respective characters?

CP: What I liked about Bernie is that he’s a simple guy and I don’t mean that derogatorily. He’s just a good solid man who goes about business not seeking any sort of pat on the back. It’s just because he wants to do right and he knows that’s the only way he can function really. And I learned a lot from him.

I think about that, about how there’s purity in wanting to do your job well and to serve other people because, uh, you don’t need – you don’t need much more than that.

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Chris Pine attends The Finest Hours world premiere held at the Chinese Theatre on January 25 in Los Angeles.

Oftentimes in our business, it’s all about, stuff that’s completely opposite from that which is, you know, getting your picture taken and twittering and all that kind of shit that I just think takes away from those good old fashioned values.

CA: Yeah my character had a journey. I really didn’t learn anything from

the guy. I didn’t, because, you know, there wasn’t a whole lot of information about him so he’s more or less, just a piece of fiction of the screenwriters who did a really good job creating a character that fit into the story. I didn’t have that same opportunity to kind of study his life. I just had to sort of make some stuff up.

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‘Grease’ is latest TV musical experiment er success of “The Sound of Music” two years ago quickly made live musicals one of the network’s favorite things.

That production, which drew 18.6 million viewers, was followed by 2014’s “Peter Pan” and last month’s “The Wiz.” And while not as many people were glued to their sets during their initial runs, both blew up on social media, which is becoming as critical to advertisers as those creaky Nielsen ratings.

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LOS ANGELES _ A stranger in town scruffs up her squeaky-clean image to win the leather-coated heart of a bad boy. A makeshift family plans an improbable escape from ruthless forces obsessed with world domination. A teenager must overcome supernatural threats with the help of emotionally scarred outcasts.

All compelling pitches to today’s Hollywood gatekeepers _ especially if you mix in some hummable tunes and jazz hands.

America hasn’t been this passionate about musicals since Gene Kelly had us singin’ in the rain, except this time the love affair is with the small screen, where desperate network executives are greeting the long neglected art form like they just secured a new season of “Seinfeld.”

On Sunday, Fox returns to Rydell High for “Grease: Live!” a 45-year-old production about crisscrossed lovers with ample recess time. The network plans to follow up the updated edition _ Boyz II Men serenade beauty school dropout Carly Rae Jepsen _ with “The Passion,” an Easter Sunday celebration from New Orleans in which Trisha Yearwood offers her take on Whitney Houston’s “Your Love Is My Love.” And get ready to do the Time Warp (again) this fall with “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

“There’s a reason why theater has existed for thousands and thousands of years. We all want to sit around the campfire and have someone tell us a story,” said “Passion” director Thomas Kail, who also helmed “Hamilton,” the biggest thing to happen on Broadway since the invention of neon lights.

“Now the campfire can be a 42-inch television set.”

Fox is simply getting in the conga line behind NBC, where the blockbust-

With these TV shows, you can sit down and have the same experience with your family in your own house.

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it the most buzzed-about TV event ever that didn’t involve sports or the possibility of Taylor Swift winning an award.

“If we’ve spawned a little uprising of musicals, that’s great,” said NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt, who’s eyeing “Hairspray” for December.

“I don’t think there’s an infinite number of these that can be done, but we’re still doing them.”

Weaving music into TV comedy and drama dates back to Lucy Ricardo’s attempts to worm her way into Ricky’s nightclub and is well represented these days by ABC’s “Nashville,” now in its fourth season, and Fox’s “Empire,” a series doing such a good job of living up to its name that there’s already talk of two spinoffs.

But the traditional musical format, in which characters suspend action _ and reality _ to bust a move, has strug-

gled over the years.

In 2009, Fox gambled on “Glee,” a show that dared viewers to fall in love with unfamiliar stars breaking into song between chemistry class and home ec. The risk paid off, both in terms of ratings and subsequent record sales.

Part of the appeal may have nothing to do with the soundtrack.

Once upon a time, network TV was blanketed by “The Waltons,” “Little House on the Prairie” and “Happy Days,” shows you could watch with your kids and parents. Today’s most popular series _ gritty procedurals and edgy sitcoms _ are almost impossible to sit through with Grandma without fidgeting the same way you would if a stack of Playboys were piled up on the living-room table.

“These shows appeal to both parents and kids, the same way a Broadway show does,” said Aaron Tveit, who plays Danny Zuko in “Grease: Live!” “But not everyone can see a Broadway show. The prices are outrageous. With these TV shows, you can sit down and have the same experience with your family in your own house.”

That opportunity may be especially inviting for those in schools where being in a stage production is about as cool as being treasurer of the chess club.

Kelli Foster Warder, education manager for Spotlight Education, a program for budding stage stars, said these live musicals are making the art form more mainstream.

“Students can tell their friends who watch ‘Grease,’ that ‘Yeah, that’s what we do!’?” she said. “It’s too soon to tell, but I think these shows are going to sell more tickets.”

Grown-up professionals, who feared all those years of vocal training and

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Aaron Tveit and Julianne Hough in a image for “Grease: Live” on Fox. tap-dancing lessons were going to waste, are also thrilled about the revolution.

“Grease,” unlike NBC’s past musicals, will take place in front of live audiences on various sets, which means the actors will be jumping in and out of golf carts to hit their marks. More than 40 cameras will be utilized with a crew of more than 350 people.

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Are food deserts becoming a reality in downtown Long Beach?

By Miranda Andrade-Ceja Arts & Life Editor

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am afraid of downtown Long Beach becoming a food desert.

The fear is hardly unfounded. With a second Target opening across the street from Cal State Long Beach (a grand total of 2.1 miles away from its counterpart on Bellflower Boulevard and Stearns Street) and the closure of multiple low-cost grocery stores in downtown Long Beach such as Fresh and Easy and Wal-Mart, it’s clear that accessible food is becoming scarce in Long Beach.

But it’s not all of Long Beach.

Poverty affects different districts in Long Beach. Coincidentally, the area surrounding Cal State Long Beach happens to be one of the wealthiest, most diverse areas within the city itself. According to City Data, a website dedicated to gathering data on cities in the United States, southbound districts in Long Beach have

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poverty rates below 5 percent. As you travel down 7th Street, though, the rate of poverty gets higher and higher.

Poverty rates peak at 60 percent in downtown Long Beach, according to City Data.

So what can happen when some of the few accessible grocery stores in an area with high rates of poverty close their doors permanently? In theory, people in poverty cannot access healthy, quality food for themselves. After that, it’s an uphill struggle.

Not only is there a lack of affordable grocery stores, but fast-food eateries such as McDonald’s or Jack in the Box boast engorged meals at low prices. The general health of the population declines, meanwhile, the corporate bourgeoisie bloats further.

So that begs the question: why isn’t a Target opening up in downtown Long Beach?

The lack of accessible food in downtown Long Beach isn’t right. There is no care for accessibility. Despite WalMart’s controversial reputation regarding worker’s rights and treatment, the super store’s closure is an issue that needs to be addressed. When there are a only four large grocery stores in downtown Long Beach (including El Super, Superior and Vons), it’s not a matter of going out to a store that’s farther away and shopping there.

For many, reliable transportation is a luxury. Accessibility to organic, grass-

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raised food is a privilege. Expendable time, maybe above all things, is a privilege.

If you live in poverty, you can’t exercise many of those privileges because you’ve never had them. There’s no time when there’s work to be done, there’s no transportation when there’s no money, and there’s no healthy food when there’s no transportation or money.

That is what I fear in downtown Long Beach.

For many of us, Long Beach is our home. But very seldom are we open to the struggles or disparity of others in our city.

Alternatives such as community gardens, recurring farmers’ markets and other venues for healthy and affordable

food offer a substantial break from the corporate knot all of us find ourselves tied in. These alternatives should not be forgotten, but remembered and exercised to their fullest extent.

Food deserts can be dodged, but we can’t expect changes to occur unless we adjust our own perception and begin to look at the city as our own.

No candidate in the 2016 race has done more for women’s rights than Hillary Clinton.

She demanded action on opening up counseling/critical health services for survivors of sexual attacks and emphasized creating prevention programs nationwide. She firmly supported violence prevention programs that focus on subjects like consent and bystander intervention, in line with the steps our own campus has taken.

Just like in the 2008 election, she is by far the most qualified candidate for the position, having devoted her life to public service as secretary of state, New

York senator, first lady, and citizen’s rights advocate.

As first lady, she helped establish the Office on Violence Against Women within the Justice Department. As senator, she co-sponsored the 2005 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and advanced the CARE Act to ensure that rape and incest victims had access to emergency contraception in hospitals.

In response to the rise of sexual assault cases in the military, she introduced

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By protecting college students from assault and debt, Clinton edges out competition.

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mericans are fortunate to have another opportunity to elect Hillary Clinton as President of the United States in 2016.

The field of democratic candidates is strong this year, but Hillary’s ideas stand out, especially in addressing problems within higher education.

While she maintains leads in most national polls, millennials tend to support “Feel-the-Bern” Sanders most vocally on social media campaigns and vote Sanders twice as much as Clinton in polls, according to CNN. Populist rhetoric like that from Sanders may win over some in the short term, but it is not a substitute for the strong substantive leadership, shown

by Clinton, needed for the long haul.

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Two serious problems that need to be highlighted are sexual assaults on college campuses and the rising cost of tuition.

Several sources including the National Sexual Violence Resource Center have found that an estimated one in five women have reported being sexually assaulted while in college. Great effort has been made at CSULB in recent years to fight this growing crisis, ranging from Title IX and consent workshops held on campus for students to bulletins alerting 49ers of reported assaults.

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continued from page 6 legislation to make emergency contraception available to the women who serve our country and promoted zero tolerance for military sexual assault and harassment through critical review and toughening of policies and protections.

As secretary of state, she called upon the worldwide community to fight violence against women. One of her biggest causes has been preventing the use of sexual violence as a “weapon of war.”

This is exactly what we as students need in addressing the sad reality of the times.

That, and some help with tuition, student loans, and the almost certain promise of debt.

While at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Clinton said, “No family or student should have to borrow to pay tuition at a public college or university and everyone who has student debt

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should be able to refinance at a lower rate.”

Hillary’s proposed $350 billion education plan, known as the New College Compact, is a step in the right direction for higher education.

The proposal would help millions pay for college and reduce interest rates for people who have already earned their degree and still have student loan debt.

Clinton wants debt-free tuition, but not free tuition overall, which would benefit rich students whose parents can already afford to send them to college.

Her plan could help increase graduation rates by giving students easier budgets to work with while pursuing degrees, create incentives for states to spend more money on higher education, and would be fully paid for by reducing tax deductions for the wealthiest Americans.

Hillary is the only political candidate right now addressing these problems in depth and her ideas go hand in hand with what we as a school are trying to accomplish.

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Staying hot LBSU picked up its third and fourth wins in a row against UC Davis and Cal Poly on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.

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A fourth quarter comeback pushed the Long Beach State women’s basketball team past Cal Poly, 65-53, on Saturday night inside the Walter Pyramid.

The 49ers (16-5, 5-2) trailed by four at the end of the third quarter, but scored 21 points in the fourth to run away with the win.

Despite outscoring LBSU 48-44 through the first three quarters, the Mustangs (10-10, 3-4) only scored five points in the fourth.

“We had confidence going into the fourth quarter because I think we ended the third quarter aggressively,” 49er head coach Jody Wynn said. “And [we] continued to press and do what we do best.”

The 49ers started the game strong by taking an early 11-4 lead and by the end of the first quarter were leading 23-14.

LBSU shot over 50 percent from the field and were 3-for-6 from behind the arc in the first.

The lead was quickly lost in the third and fourth quarters as the 49ers allowed Mustangs’ forward Hannah Gilbert and guard Dynn Leaupepe to find their rhythm. Both Gilbert and Leaupepe scored a combined 35 points in the the game.

“In the third quarter I think Gilbert still got two or three really easy shots, but our pressure on the perimeter was

much better [in the fourth quarter],” Wynn said. “We contained 13 [Leaupepe] better so we didn’t create so many help and recover situations.”

After scoring only six points against UC Davis on Thursday, junior Madison Montgomery bounced back to her regular form and scored 18 points on Saturday, shooting eight for 14 from the field.

Montgomery put up the first points for the 49ers of the second half, but where she dominated was in the fourth quarter. The 6-foot-1-inch forward drained a clutch shot to give LBSU an eight point lead with 1:47 left in the game.

“I knew that they wanted to guard us on the perimeter,” Montgomery said. “I wanted to get in the gun and try to be a presence on the inside.”

Montgomery wasn’t the only player to score double digits. Sophomore guard Raven Benton scored 14 points and junior guard Anna Kim contributed with 10.

Sophomore guard Gigi Hascheff added two three-pointers, which included a trey that cut the Mustang lead to four in the middle of the third quarter.

Cal Poly assistant coach Kristin Iwanaga said that the offense was stagnant and that the 49er defense forced turnovers thanks to an on-and-off full court press.

Turnovers killed the Mustangs as the team had 29 turnovers throughout the game.

“We played three good quarters, it’s just the fourth quarter that we really kind of started to turn the ball over and couldn’t score offensively,” Iwanaga said. “We’ll go back and look at the game film and see what we can improve on.”

LBSU’s next game will be on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Walter Pyramid against CSUN.

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Junior guard Raven Benton (20) looks to drive past Cal Poly’s Amanda Lovley (5) in LBSU’s win over the Mustangs on Saturday inside the Walter Pyramid.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

49ers outlast Gauchos Freshmen TJ DeFalco and Josh Tuaniga registered season highs in kills and assists in the win against UCSB.

By Kayce Contatore Staff Writer

The No. 2 Long Beach State men’s volleyball team fought to the end edging No. 11 UC Santa Barbara (8-3, 4-2 MPSF) in

five sets, and recording its longest lasting match of the season at two hours and 45 minutes.

Freshmen standouts outside hitter TJ DeFalco and setter Josh Tuaniga recorded season-best performances for the 49ers.

DeFalco slammed down 27 kills and Tuaniga registered 63 assists. DeFalco earned his second straight double-double performance, chipping in 14 digs for the 49ers.

Junior libero Andrew Sato finished the night with 13 digs. He is now 92 digs away from earning a spot in the 49ers’ all-time top 10 list.

LBSU (7-2, 4-2) combined for a .301

hitting percentage on the night with 71 total kills and only 22 errors.

Senior middle blocker Taylor Gregory recorded his seventh straight performance with no hitting errors. Gregory leads the MPSF with a .638 hitting percentage on the season so far.

The 49ers were able to hold the Gauchos to a .178 hitting percentage on the night. They also held them to a negative .118 hitting percentage in the first set.

LBSU returns home to the Walter Pyramid for a pair of matches against No. 6 Stanford and No. 8 Pepperdine on Friday at 7 and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., respectively.

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made all three free throws without hesitation, sending the game into overtime.

There, LBSU regrouped and outscored the Gauchos 10-0 to seal the victory.

“Overtime was a disaster for us,” Bryson said. “We didn’t execute, didn’t take care of the ball and didn’t get stops on defense and we let them get to the charity stripe and get easy points to create separation.”

49er coach Dan Monson said he hopes that Thursday night’s victory can be a step in the right direction, considering that LBSU was 2-8 in games decided by seven or less coming in.

“We haven’t dug a game out like that all year, so it was good to see,” Monson said.

Faust had a game-and career-high 34 points and said he knew early on that his shot was on.

“After the first couple get going, you know,” Faust said. “I just really wanted to win really bad.”

The 49ers started the game by completing nine of their first thirteen field goal attempts in the first 11 minutes, but only made two of their last 17 shot attempts to close out the half.

The 49ers will host Cal State Northridge next on Saturday at 4 p.m.