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4,196 of 35,361 students submitted
their online ballot for the ASI Elections.
Miriam Hernandez was elected as Vice President with
Wendy Lewis was elected as Treasurer with
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ASI Presidential candidate Jose Salazar
ASI Presidential candidate Todd Schurr
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Associated Students Inc. announced the results of the election on Thursday afternoon. The student body elected Miriam Hernandez as vice president with 56.21 percent of the votes. Wendy Lewis won treasurer with 51.3 percent of the votes. ASI presidential candidates Jose Salazar
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and Todd Schurr will face each other in a run-off election from March 23-25. Overall voter turnout was 4,196. This comprises of 11.9 percent of the student body. Because none of the ASI presidential candidates were able to obtain over 50 percent of the vote, there will be a run-off election between Jose Salazar
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For ASI President, Jose Salazar received
Todd Schurr received
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of student votes
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Both presidential candidates will enter into a run-off election. Polls will be open March 23-25 online, and results will be announced Thursday.
Long Beach innovates education Gov. Brown granted $5 million to Long Beach education institutions for “innovative leadership.”
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ong have college campuses nurtured progressive thought and acted as stages for demonstrations. University grounds are a place where young adults, each with their own opinions, begin to express themselves, realizing how empowering free speech can truly be. On Wednesday, as I came across one such illuminating event, I saw dozens of students standing with makeshift posters in a demonstration against confrontational evangelists Bob Engel and Jed Smock, who publicly condemned members of the LGBT community, among others. Engel ruined the moment when he decided to go beyond the limits of his First Amendment rights and into the territory of hate speech. “Move, you fat, dike bitch,” Engel said to a protester holding a pro-
who secured about 45 percent of the vote and Todd Schurr who received about 32 percent of the vote. “The turn out for votes could always be better,” ASI Chief of Staff Jay Jenkins said. Dale Lendrum came in third place, with about 23 percent of the vote, and he is out of the running.
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The Long Beach College Promise could “create a sea of change” in the California Education system, University President Jane Close Conoley said in a press release Friday. “I want to thank Governor Brown for his vision in creating the Innovation Award,” Conoley said. Out of 14 finalists and 58 applicants in total, the Long Beach College Promise received $5 million and the highest score in Gov. Jerry Brown’s $50 million Awards for Innovation in Higher Education.
In conjunction with Long Beach City College and the Long Beach Unified School District, California State University, Long Beach formed the Long Beach College Promise in 2008 to help expedite graduation rates in Long Beach colleges. Long Beach City joined the program about one year ago. The program intends to align itself with Brown’s initiative to increase timeliness of California graduation rates from six to four years, Carbaugh said. The Long Beach College Promise
intends to get LBUSD students interested in college from an early age. The program requires fourth and fifth graders to visit the LBCC and CSULB campuses. Since the program’s creation, over 26,000 elementary school children have visited both campuses, according to data released by the Long Beach College Promise. Eligible students also receive a free semester at LBCC and guaranteed admission to
awe and at times envy. Standing at 6-foot-1 and flat-footed, lithe and long-limbed, Alvis conveys a sort of grace similar to that of a stilt walker when he slips on an altitudinous pair of spikes. Alvis is one of a number of men bending norms of gendered fashion by wearing high-heels, a shoe style associated with femininity in many societies. “I enjoy how they challenge gender norms,” he said. “I feel wearing heels detracts from my male privilege,” he said. Looking back before modern trends, the origins of high-heels have little to do with butt-bolstering or pin-parading. The sole of their history is buried in masculine power. Elizabeth Semmelhack, the senior
curator at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada told the BBC that heels originated in 16th century Persia—what is now known as modern-day Iran— where combat was mainly carried out on horseback. Heels allowed a rider to securely latch onto the stirrups, enabling them to stand up in order to fire arrows. Semmelhack said that Europe eventually caught on and high-heels became a symbol of aristocracy. The trend spread to the masses, and by the 17th century high-heels were common among both sexes, only to disappear from feet altogether because of their im-
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About a year ago, Ethan Alvis had to rush to a meeting across Long Beach. He planned to skate there. He was also dead set on wearing a pair of black leather caged stilettos. So he strapped on his heels and hopped on his board, surprising himself with how he was able to hack it. “It’s definitely a challenge,” the undeclared freshmen at California State University, Long Beach said, suggesting it’s something of a circus trick. He’s mastered the technique and often skates to class in high-heels, receiving looks of
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CSULB. “This is further evidence that the Long Beach College Promise is an outstanding, effective program, and it’s also a great opportunity to expand and enhance the support we provide to our students,” Mayor Robert Garcia said in the press release. According to data released by CSULB about College Promise efforts, students who reduce their graduation time by one semester at CSULB save about $10,000. Carbaugh said that by
working with LBUSD and LBCC, College Promise could reduce “time to degree” for half of the LBUSD students by preparing them well enough to skip remedial classes upon college admittance. “You really have to share trust with your sister systems to get a program like this running,” Carbaugh said. In the past three years, LBCC students following the alternative assessment model, in which transcripts can exempt them from remedial courses,
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collectively tested out of 1,200 semesters. Similarly, CSULB’s Highly Valued Degrees Initiative aims to reduce graduation rates of former LBUSD students from 5.2 years to 4.7. The number of LBUSD students enrolled at CSULB has increased by 43 percent since the College Promise Initiate began seven years ago. “This is a win-win for our region,” Conoley said in the press release. “And as we scale-up these practices, it will be a win-win for the state and nation.”
The Long Beach College Promise partners intend to use the grant from Gov. Jerry Brown on “needed resources,” Christopher Steinhauser, the Long Beach Unified School District Superintendent, said Friday in a press release. “We’re excited to receive this significant funding and the recognition that comes with it,” Steinhauser said. Carbaugh said that she did not yet know how the money from the award would be spent.
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Senatorial support for medical marijuana
The threat of federal prosecution could be eliminated if the medical marijuana bill continues to gain traction. Senator Barbara Boxer joined the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States Act coalition last week. Boxer, whose office did not issue a statement of her support towards the federal bill, is a “strong supporter of California’s medical marijuana law,” Boxer’s communications manager
Zachary Coile said in a statement, as reported in the Washington Post. Senators Cory Booker, Rand Paul and Kristen Gillbrand introduced the bill on March 10. This is the first bill from the U.S. senate that would legalize marijuana for medical use, according to drugpolicy.org. The CARERS Act would “reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule II drug to recognize it as accepted medical use, and would amend federal law to allow states to set their own medical marijuana policies,” a press release from Nevada Senator Dean Heller’s office stated. Schedule I drugs have no current medical use and high potential for abuse, while Schedule II drugs are still defined as dangerous but have less potential for abuse, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Heller also signed his support for the bill last week. He said he believes that “the time has come for the
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federal government to stop impeding the doctor-patient relationship in states that have decided their own medical marijuana policies,” according to the press release. In addition to excluding the federal government from marijuana’s rescheduling process, the CARERS Act would allow the Department of Veteran Affairs doctors to recommend the drug to patients, as reported by the Washington Post.
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of [the legislation].” Over 30 appropriations are included in the new drought package, ranging from water storage funding to food assistance proposals. Brown has made efforts to fight California’s drought since his Drought Task Force initiative in 2013, which was quickly followed by the governor’s declaration of a drought state of emergency. “There’s no question California’s drought crisis has worsened,” Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff said in a press release. “With the summer months approaching, it’s incumbent on all Californians to be responsible with how they use water. It’s critical that we act now.” Governor Brown will begin implementing water restrictions as the legislation moves forward, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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hotocopied and bound in packing tape are the modestly circulated, polysemous booklets known as zines. At the corner of Loma and Pine Ave, the second of several pre-events took place on Saturday to promote Zine Fest, a festival held in lieu of the ragged yet individualized publications of all things admired. Zines are self-published, mini magazines often seen in record stores, skate shops and DIY venues that feature text and images with or without a message to relay. “Zine started in the ‘80s-’90s [era],” Carina Taylor, a volunteer coordinator
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for Zine Fest and a third year animation major at California State University, Long Beach, said. “It’s a way for kids, adults, teens – people who just have something to say and not necessarily have the means to get the word out there - to just say what they want.” With this being Long Beach’s first year to claim Zine Fest as it’s own, Taylor has been promoting the event around town, not only to raise awareness for the actual festival, but also to help attendants understand and embrace zine culture. “A few years ago, I saw a listing for a do-it-yourself event in Riverside and I ended up taking a few bad zines because I was trying it all out,” Elise Bernal, a Pico Rivera native and Long Beach’s Zine Fest coordinator, said. “From that
point on, I saw myself dedicating more time to it and most of my zines have been focused on ‘positivity.’” Vocalist and bassist of punk-post-hardcore band Struckout, Daniel Speer, said that he believes the message of this event is even more important now because brandishing physical medium is necessary in a technology-evolving world. “[Zine] is sort of an ode to artifacts,” Speer said. “You can have a blog, but there’s something about physical media and cherishing that weird thing you care so much about; maybe it’s not necessary but so many things are fun when you make it necessary.” By having a series of promotional events leading up to the actual festival, coordinating manager Bernal also believes that it’ll not only help bring out
those in recluse of their artistic capabilities but also encourage Long Beach businesses and residents to work together as a community. The tight-knit feel inside of “Steamy in the City: Creator Studio,” an artist studio, quickly washed away as a diverse range of 20 attendants swarmed the stage and rocked out with each of the band members. Saturday’s line up included local artists Struckout, Tomber Lever, Nahneen Kula and Tough Stuff. “It was fun in this venue,” Bryon Gillis, an attendant and CSULB alum, said. “Apparently they only used it for making music videos but now they’re trying to expand on that.” Because most of the events are free, having places like Steamy in the City help encourage businesses to offer their
services and spaces to those who want a place to express themselves. Speer served as the first term president of CSULB’s Underground Music Society, a club that promotes local music for those that want “to just be and exist,” thinks it’s time for Long Beach to stand on its own. “Long Beach has this mentality where we’re not ‘L.A.,’” Speer said. “I feel like people complain a lot when they live in a place. By putting in the effort and time and adding your take on culture and music, it makes it worth it to stick around.” Zine Fest’s next pre-event is a free bookbinding workshop on April 2 at the Mark Twain library in Long Beach. The main event will be held April 12 at MOLAA from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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practicality by the 1700s. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century that heels reemerged as women’s shoes with a whole new sex appeal, showing up on pin-up girls and in pornography, according to Semmelhack. Some feminists have taken issue with women wearing high-heels. Sheila Jeffreys, a feminist scholar and researcher, calls the footwear “torture implements” in her book “Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West.” “Beauty practices can reasonably be understood to be for the benefit of men,” Jeffreys wrote. “Men can feel both defined in manhood and flattered by women’s exertions and, if the women are wearing high-heels for instance, pain endured for their delight.” In more modern times high-heels have gained traction as men’s footwear, especially in drag culture. CSULB senior communication major Malik Thompson, better known as Foxie Adjuia on stage, started wearing heels in high school before becoming a professional drag queen. “Nobody else on campus was wearing heels,” Thompson said. “I wanted to show everyone I could do it better than girls.” Thompson said that while some men fetishize heels, that is not the case for him. “Speaking personally, it’s not a sexual fetish or transvestitism, but it’s more of a social statement and a fashion statement.” A lipstick-red set of pumps
is senior psychology major Angel Jimenez’s pair of choice. “It opens up your choices when it comes to fashion, instead of just wearing tennis shoes or something,” Jimenez said. “They make me feel powerful because [in high-heels] you command attention.” From Hollywood stars to heads of state, men of power wear elevator shoes to enhance their presence, according to the Guardian. These shoes basically have a wedge heel on the insole, which discreetly gives men a few inches of lift. One reason men go to such heights may be because stature has been correlated with higher salary and respect in the workplace, according to a 2004 University of Florida study. Still, Jimenez said high-rise-heeled men are somewhat taboo in mainstream culture. “You do get a little uncomfortable because maybe the wrong people are staring at you—people who might want to hurt you,” Jimenez said. “I’ve worn them at a mall before and there were people pulling their children away. I was like, ‘okay, would you be doing this if there was a girl wearing these heels?’” The Bata Museum will be hosting an upcoming exhibit differentiating between the historical and contemporary attitudes towards high-heeled men, an issue that makes people nervous, as Semmelhack told The Huffington Post.
According to sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman’s theory of doing gender, we perform gender by the way we walk, talk and dress, implying that definitions of masculinity and femininity can be actively challenged by men who dress or act “unmasculine” or women who dress or act “unfeminine.” Jimenez sees the trend of tearing down gender binaries as a positive. “I think it started with metrosexuals; now it’s okay for straight men to dress even more feminine,” Jimenez said. “Not even just in modeling, but in everyday culture; it’s good. I’m glad it’s happening.” Is society ready for high-heeled men? “I think there are definitely parts that are not,” Alvis said, reminiscing about an awkward visit to Texas to see his parents. “I went to a party wearing red pants [while] everyone else at the party was in gym shorts,” Alvis said. “If I’d had worn heels it would have been even more like, ‘What did I do to myself?’” With a grip-taped deck in one hand, Alvis keeps his fashion on high-heels despite the gawks. As for Thompson, he is gearing up for another thigh-high and tight-fitted night as Ms. Adjuia at the Executive Suites in Long Beach on Thursday. “If they’re not ready,” Thompson said. “We’re going to make them ready.”
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Continued from page 1 LGBT poster. Comments like these were nothing new, though. They had been thrown around for the past three days. Over the next hour and a half, the self-proclaimed “prophet of god” continued preaching. After all, it’s his first amendment right. His preaching included feint passes at some female students, obvious disgust with one woman whom he made sure everyone knew was “not that good looking” and “a little overweight,” and many more references to “dikes” and “stupid bitches” while questioning some students as to whether they were male or female. This was not free speech; this was harassment. CSULB’s campus regulations, which all non-commercial solicitors including these lovely orators are required to follow, state that solicitation must be conducted in a manner “which is carried out without voice amplification or other unduly loud noise, and without undue provocation, harassment or disturbance of persons in the area.” If Engel and Smock were trying to see how many rules they could break in one sentence, job well done. They even set up 50-feet from a designated smoking area so they could obscenely shout at students innocently grabbing a quick puff
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s I see it, my life’s mission is to bully the bullies. Recently, there has been a controversy over the Dream Success Center, its cost and its attempts to assist those who are undocumented students. Just as on a national level, those opposing accommodation for undocumented people on campus are Republicans. Nester Moto, Jr. attempted to make a name for himself by appearing on the morning show “Fox and Friends” to decry our university over the issue of resource allocation to the Dream Center. Now, the purpose of this piece is not to rehash the numerous factual errors in Moto’s statements, as several other people have noted them already, notably Amy Patton. However, one tiny addendum to that list would be that Mr. Moto’s narrative that veterans were not being accommodated enough compared to the undocumented students is undermined by geography. Our campus is right next to a veteran’s hospital. The purpose of this piece is to point out the flaw in Moto’s indignation. If he actually means that students should not have academic accommodation based on their circumstances because other students aren’t afforded those same accommodations, California State University Long Beach would be required to do away with Disabled Student Services. Given his outrage, Moto sure-
ly opposes priority registration for disabled students, as nondisabled students aren’t afforded that service, right? I have a class called Fundamentals of Public Administration with Moto, and though I rarely see him in class, he has never objected to my receiving
Student services should be added, not subtracted. testing accommodations due to my cerebral palsy. So why does he oppose helping those who are undocumented? Politics. Those who are undocumented are targets for conservatives backlash after President Obama’s conflict with congressional Republicans over his executive actions to put a stay on certain deportations. Moto is simply trying to build his profile in conservative media. Behold the hubris of Moto’s stated goal to shut down the Dream Center. According to Moto, he and the other 20 people that messaged him have a greater say than the 650 undocumented students the Dream Center seeks to accommodate. It is just like a bully to scapegoat 2 percent of the student population for the allegedly “overstretched” university, particularly with factually inaccurate arguments.
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between midterms. “It’s crossing the line when someone’s eliciting violence or singling people out and calling names,” Alena Gretencord, a sophomore pre-industrial design major and member of CSULB’s Queers and Allies, said. She noted that there are already higher rates of suicide in the LGBT community – to whom many of the orators disparaging remarks were directed – with the increased rate largely attributed to harassment and
Where do we draw the line between religious demonstration and student harassment?
teasing. The people who appeared most angry with Engels and Smock were Christian students. “We have freedom of speech, but he’s just vulgar,” a Love Is For Everyone Campus Minister said. California is supposed to be one of the most progressive and liberal states, yet visiting students from a campus across the county were shocked. “I haven’t seen anything like that on our campus,” Oklahoma University sophomore Susan Horne
said. “It’s just hate speech, it’s kind of like a hate group.” But even a hate group, like the KKK or Nazi’s, should have the right to demonstrate on campus, and they are. It is possible to have beliefs, however controversial they may be to a majority of other people, and demonstrate them in a way that abides with our campus regulations. Calling people vulgar names is not the way to do that. If either a group of KKK or Nazi demonstrators came to campus and began yelling racial slurs at students, we would likely make national news for the ensuing brawl. Crime Prevention Sergeant Keith Caires said that while there are clear examples of when free speech crosses the line, exchanges with people engaging in inflammatory debate are not always so clear. This is because debate can stir emotions, and its greatest yield – passion – can sometimes blind people to the harm they are inflicting on others. “Sometimes they need to be called a picketing-lesbo bitch, or even a cunt,” Engels said. Good point, and thank you for enlightening our campus with your insightful opinions. “I’m not very effective at all,” Engels said. I wonder why. Free speech is something we should all celebrate, but it does not mean that there isn’t a limit. Hopefully, degrading slurs and harassment will not ruin the next demonstration on our campus.
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DIRTBAGS TROUNCE TITANS Impressive all-around pitching and timely hitting carried LBSU past its conference rival. By Eddie Rivera Contributing Writer
Another big weekend from freshman right-hander Chris Mathewson propelled the Long Beach State baseball team to a 2-1 series win over Cal State Fullerton at Blair Field. Mathewson led the way for the Dirtbags (12-8, 2-1) Sunday in their 6-1 victory over the Titans (11-11, 1-2). He shut out Fullerton through the first five innings before a fielding error by sophomore shortstop Garrett Hampson in the sixth led to CSUF’s lone run. “It was just about not letting [the error] get to me,” Mathewson said. “The coaches told me to slow down and just stay relaxed.” Mathewson collected seven strikeouts through seven innings without allowing an earned run. He picked off a batter in the third and consistently escaped trouble with strikeouts that ended Fullerton’s threats of scoring. The Dirtbags took an early 4-0 lead in the first by capitalizing off the Titans’ mistakes. A combination of mul-
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tiple throwing errors and LBSU’s base running allowed the Dirtbags to score a pair of runs. Three Titan players stared at a pop fly that hit the dirt and allowed another runner in. Hampson again led the offense for the Dirtbags. He went 3-4 and scored two runs, and said he simply attacked the plate and never let up. “I was aggressive early and looking for the fastball,” Hampson said. “We’ve been getting beat by that pitch so I’ve been focusing on being on time.” Mathewson came up huge Friday night in the first of back-to back extra inning games. He drove in the winning run in the 4-3 victory, making it the second time this season he has pinchhit in a crucial spot to give the Dirtbags the go-ahead run. “The guy likes [big] moments,” Buckley said. “It was a hell of an atbat against a really good senior pitcher who’s been around awhile.” The game lasted a grueling five hours and stretched to 12 innings. Senior right-hander Kyle Friedrichs struggled when he gave up his first home run and hit multiple batters for the first time this season. At one point, Friedrichs and Titans’ junior right-hander Thomas Eshelman combined to retire 21 of 24 batters. Neither team scored from the fourth to the 11th inning as a total of 24 men were left on base in the game. “The most positive thing about our bullpen is that they were able to pitch in and out of traffic all night,” Buckley
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Long Beach State first baseman Luke Rasmussen dives back to first base to avoid being thrown out by Cal State Fullerton on Sunday at Blair Field. said. On Saturday night, the Titans pulled out the 2-1 win over the Dirtbags in extra innings. Both teams struggled offensively and combined to leave 20 men on base. The Dirtbags had a chance to win it in the ninth but left the winning
run on third. Junior righty Ty Provencher entered the game in the 10th but quickly got himself into trouble. He hit a batter, gave up a single and a walk to load the bases with one out. Provencher walked another batter to force in the go-ahead
run. The Dirtbags had a chance to tie it back up but stranded runners at third and second to end the game. The Dirtbags will continue conference play at UC Santa Barbara Friday night at 3 p.m. for the start of a threegame series against the Gauchos.
LBSU wins some, loses some
Taylor Gregory rose above the Lancers to record seven block assists in the 49ers’ sweep of Cal Baptist Wednesday. By Kayce Contatore Contributing Writer
The domineering block of the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team overcame a slow start to secure a sweep over Cal-Baptist Wednesday night. The No. 9 49ers (12-9, 8-8 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) earned 13.5 blocks on the night, with junior middle blocker Taylor Gregory contributing seven block assists. Gregory said LBSU is progressing well as postseason play approaches. “[We have] a snowball on top of a hill, and we’re just going to keep pushing it down and hopefully it keeps rolling and rolling and getting bigger as it goes along,” Gregory said. “That’s our goal, to keep getting better every match and keep the ball rolling.” The Lancers’ (6-15, 2-13 MPSF) shaky season continued with another loss. Injuries forced Cal-Baptist to change its rotations and style of play. LBSU head coach Alan Knipe said his team switched up the game plan it had prepared during the week, and saw the match as great practice before the MPSF tournament. Knipe said the team handled the early deficit well despite hitting just .125 com-
pared to the Lancers’ .194 hitting percentage in the first set. “I think that was a great first game for us because it didn’t go perfect for us and we had to make some adjustments on the fly and they did a good job,” Knipe said. “The ability to be able to adapt to that, where you’re not only going to win if they do exactly what they say on paper, it’s not a chess game or a video game. It’s athletes playing.” Knipe said his team stayed consistent from the service line, reigning down five aces on the Lancers with only 12 errors, which benefited the 49ers’ block. “More importantly than the aces, [Cal-Baptist’s] setter was running around a lot tonight and when he’s running around that limited how many options he had and that usually resulted in a lot of blocks,” Knipe said. “Blocks on defense are really dictated by serving.” Junior opposite hitter John La Rusch led the 49ers in kills, slamming down 10 on the night to overpower the Lancers. “We have been making great strides in just playing as a unit no matter who is on the court,” La Rusch said. “We’re all doing our job.” Junior opposite hitter Roy Powell led the Lancers with 12 kills. Cal-Baptist clung to the lead for the majority of the third set, but struggled to maintain its high energy as the 49ers fought back with an ace and a kill from junior outside hitter Dan Glamack to take the match. “The energy level you bring to the court can work for you or against you,” Lancers head coach Wes Schneider said. “If you’re up, you’re really high and if you’re low you’re really low with your energy.”
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University of Southern California’s Micah Christenson, center, and Andy Benesh, far right block an attack by Long Beach State opposite hitter Eric Ensing on Friday in the Walter Pyramid.
The 49ers lose a heartbreaking five set thriller to the Trojans Friday. By Kayce Contatore Contributing Writer
No. 7 USC overcame the thundering roar from 49er fans inside the Walter Pyramid and defeated the No. 9 Long Beach State men’s volleyball team in five sets Friday night.
The 49ers (12-10, 8-9 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) failed to keep their momentum going after leading two sets to one. LBSU head coach Alan Knipe said the last two sets came down to his team’s inability to continue to maintain control of the serve. “When you’re siding-out at a high number, the score is either close or you’re up” Knipe said. “It makes it really difficult for their setter to do different things. They started doing a lot of different things offensively mainly because they had the lead.” The Trojans (12-7, 10-6 MPSF) conjured up the last bit of energy they had and came out firing in the fifth set, slamming down 10 kills with only three errors. USC went on to win the set 15-10 to seal
the victory. The 49ers came out strong in the first set when junior middle blocker Taylor Gregory and junior outside hitter John La Rusch hit .667 and .500 percent, respectively. “It kind of stings a little bit,” sophomore setter Curtis Stallings said. “It’s tough when you go up 2-1 and you’re trying to close out in the fourth and you can’t. We missed a couple of opportunities. They had some service pressures and we might have missed it a little bit.” Junior outside hitter Cody Martin made his return to the court in set four for junior outside hitter Dan Glamack and ended the night with a .375 hitting percentage. Martin missed the past few weeks due to an abdomen injury, but brought another dimension to the court against the Trojans with his physicality said Knipe. “It felt good to be back on the court with my teammates,” Martin said. “I think we played tremendous tonight and I think our team effort was great. We just didn’t execute.” Knipe reiterated that it was pertinent for his players to work on moving past a loss and instead focus on the matches ahead. “As tough as it is to handle, what we have to lean on is that the game is in our control for us to close it out,” Knipe said. “We have to continue to mature and close out these games. If we can continue to improve like we have in these last few weeks, [we’ll be better prepared for] Pepperdine.” The 49ers continue their home stand when they host Pepperdine and Stanford on Thursday and Saturday, respectively. Both matches start at 7 p.m. inside the Walter Pyramid.