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Vol. LIX, Issue 866 www.daily49er.com Thursday, May 7 2015
DAILY 49ERCalifornia State University, Long Beach
She is able to balance school,
her three children and her sanity with grace. She
wears the essence of hard-worker on her sleeve.
Diligent, powerful and tenacious
are a few words that describe the veteran, mother
and newly-elected California State University, Long Beach Associated
Students, Inc. Treasurer Wendy
Lewis.
49er in
Focus
No worries, it’s finals week
Give the dog a bone
Homes for the braveFinals week
provokes unnecessary stress.
A local petition is making waves as it tries to keep the beach scene dog friendly.
Mayor Garcia plans to provide every homeless vet with a place to live.
By Madison d’ornellasAssistant News Editor
By stephanie thai Video Producer
By Collin JaMesAssistant News Editor
Finals week sucks, but it doesn’t have to.
By disregarding the #finalsweek groupthink of stress, dread and life-or-death decisions you will create a peaceful space to complete the week with confidence and a clear head.
For those graduating this semes-ter, the stress of finals week can be increased exponentially, due to the pressures that come with taking exams. A potential degree, on top of summer vacation, is at the finish line of this semester.
Bussinessweek.com columnist Francesca Di Meglio wrote in 2012 that an American College Coun-
seling study in 2012 found that 37.4 percent of college students seek help for “severe psychological problems” that surface during finals week.
“Of the 228 counselors surveyed, more than three out of four reported an increase in crises in the past five years requiring immediate response,” Di Meglio wrote. “42 per-cent noted an increase in self-injury and 24 percent have seen an increase in eating disorders.”
Don’t let finals week erase all of the fun memories that were created during the semester. As a senior, I have noticed that class work becomes very light the week before finals week. Taking advantage of that light week to prepare for studying for finals can make you feel prepared and ready.
Susan Svrluga of The Washington Post shared in the article “‘College is for falling in love’: Five best tips for dealing with finals stress” author
Thousands of paw prints stamp Playa de Long Beach each day as dogs of all breeds, shapes and sizes mark that por-tion of the beach their territory.
Although locals and Yelp reviewers coin the bank as “dog friendly,” hounds are still restricted to certain rules.
In 2014, Long Beach residents voted to build a $6 million pedestrian path next to the bike path with oil fund tax dollars. The 11-foot-wide path began construc-tion in late October and has been fin-
ished, but under Long Beach municipal order 6.16.010, dogs on leashes and their owners are forbidden to use the multi-use pathway.
To combat that order, Long Beach resident Jim Corbett created a petition titled “Dogs OK on Long Beach Pedes-trian Path.”
Corbett explained that he recognizes that all dog-owners may not be respon-sible for their dogs, but it doesn’t change the fact that “dog owners are citizens and taxpayers too.”
The Long Beach City Council had no comment on the petition.
Corbett’s proposal calls for the allow-
ance of owners and their on-leashed dogs to use the newly constructed pedestrian path just like they can in Huntington Beach, Seal Beach and other beach cities.
He said that he believes that with these newly installed pedestrian paths, most dog owners aren’t aware of the possible citations that can arise due to the lack of obvious signs.
“When the ped-path was finished be-tween 54th Place and Granada Street, I was stopped by a lifeguard and he said it was illegal to walk our dogs on the path,” Corbett said. “So I wrote to 3rd District
Mayor Robert Garcia has made it his goal to sleep veterans in beds rather than on Long Beach’s hard concrete.
“No veteran of the American armed forces should ever be without a home,” Mayor Garcia said in a public address on April 29. “Every single vet-eran deserves a place to live.”
In response to President Barack Obama’s Mayors Challenge to end
veteran homelessness in America, Mayor Robert Garcia plans to work with the Veteran’s Affairs hospital in Long Beach to provide housing vouchers and living arrangements for all veterans by the end of 2015.
“It’s definitely going to happen,” Deputy Chief of Staff to the mayor Daniel Brezenoff said. “[The city of Long Beach has] a good collaborative effort with the VA.”
The mayor visited Washington
on Tuesday to meet with President Obama and hundreds of other may-ors across the nation for the Chal-lenge to End Veteran Homelessness, according to Garcia’s Twitter.
According to the Long Beach De-partment of Health and Human Ser-vices, which collects data on the city’s homeless population, the number of homeless in Long Beach has declined
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Steve O’Conner, 54, is a homeless veteran who served in the United States Marines for three years from 1981-1984.
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Faculty reports grand theft at Education Building
A 35-year-old man reported a lap-top and a tablet stolen from a faculty office at 2 p.m. on April 30, Lt. Rich-ard Goodwin of the University Police said. The theft allegedly took place in room 214 of the Education Building. The victim said that the items stolen were a Lenovo ThinkPad and a white MacBook. The total value of both items is estimated at $3,500. Good-win said police have not identified any suspects.
Alleged burglar takes student’s laptop
A student residing at the Parkside Dorms reported a burglary at his resi-dence on May 2 at 5:40 p.m., Good-win said. The victim reported a silver MacBook Pro taken from his room. The victim told police he left his dorm room unsecured while playing foot-ball. Goodwin said police have no sus-pects identified.
Student reports bike theft
A 23-year-old student reported his bike stolen on May 1 at noon, Good-win said. The victim reportedly left his bike unsecured in front of the Uni-versity Student Union on the north side. The victim described the bike as a black fixed-speed with blue wheels. Goodwin said police do not have any leads on suspects. By Collin James
Assistant News Editor
Alleged backpack theft at dormdining hall
A student reported her backpack stolen from the Hillside dining hall, Goodwin said. The victim described the bag as a dark blue and told police she last saw it at 12:45 p.m. on Tues-day. The victim told police that the bag contained a wallet, credit cards, a Mac-Book Pro and school supplies. Good-win said police have not identified any suspects.
Vandals target parking structure
Police responded to an act of van-dalism in the stairwell at Parking Structure 1 behind the College of Business Administration at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, Goodwin said. Police said that vandals wrote the letters “JKRE8” in purple spray paint. Goodwin said police found additional graffiti in the stairwell. Police alerted Facilities Management to remove the paint.
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A student on campus reported a stolen laptop from his room in the Parkside Dorms on May 2. The victim told police that he left his room unattended when the incident happened.
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continued from page 1VETERAN
One teacher evaluation during a se-mester at California State University, Long Beach is not enough, according to Associated Students, Inc. senate.
The ASI senate passed a resolution Wednesday to introduce new online pro-fessor and instructor evaluations that will be conducted throughout a semester.
The online Student Evaluations of Teaching will allow students to provide feedback for their professors anony-mously and will be conducted every three weeks.
“This resolution is really pushing teachers to allow this electronic way of getting feedback from their students,” ASI Sen. Chris Myrter said.
The resolution states that students will fill out and submit the online SET “anonymously through a survey option on a secure third party website.”
The professors and instructors will be encouraged to use the evaluations but will not be required to.
The online SET will be conducted on a third party website, similar to Beach-Board, and will use a survey to under-stand if students are engaging in the classroom, reading required textbooks and allowing students a platform to pro-vide constructive criticism.
The online SET will not replace the
current summative teacher evaluations called Student Perception of Teachers.
According to CSULB’s website, the purpose of evaluations is to “provide information to evaluate and improve in-structional effectiveness.”
ASI Sen. Gee Moon suggested that an additional summative evaluation be conducted in the middle of the semester to provide the department chair with student concerns.
“If this is up to [the professors] it re-ally just stops at what they want,” Moon said to the Senate. “This will give them a chance to fix something during the se-mester.”
Jeff Jarvis, the CSULB Faculty Rep-resentative, said that the problem with introducing another form summative evaluation would be the speed of receiv-ing the feedback.
“I usually get my spring evaluations near the end of June beginning of July, which means there wouldn’t be a lot of time to make any adjustments for the spring semester,” Jarvis said.
Jarvis said that in order for professors to view the mid-semester evaluations, they would have to be conducted early on in the semester.
“It is probably going to log jam to put these all together and get them back to the professors,” Jarvis said.
ASI Sen. Joshua Wong said that add-ing another summative evaluation dur-ing the middle of the semester would be redundant, as the online SET would provide the professors the mid-semester feedback.
According to the resolution, the Of-fice of Institutional Research and As-sessment at CSULB uses 200,000 pieces of paper to conduct the SPOT evalua-tions. SET evaluations would not use printed materials.
Students will be able to conduct an online survey to evaluate teacher effectiveness.
ASI adds SETS to SPOTs
By Mindy LockhartContributing Writer
from 309 in 2011 to 94 as of April, a rate of almost 70 percent.
The mayor’s office said in a press release that city has a budget of $6.4 million dollars available for the pur-pose of relocating the remaining 94 homeless veterans.
Benjamin Perez, a Vietnam War
veteran, said that new housing units have recently been made available at Villages of Cabrillo in Long Beach.
“Where I stay at [Villages of Ca-brillo], there are mostly older [vet-erans], but there are some young ones,” Perez said. “Most of the guys there are friendly.”
Villages of Cabrillo set aside 500 housing units specifically for veter-ans, according a press release from the mayor’s office.
Even if the city provides every Long Beach veteran with adequate housing and food, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are in danger of becoming homeless, Brezenoff said.
“It is part of the challenge,” Breze-noff said. “”There is definitely a sig-nificant number of vets from first and second Gulf War.”
The VA Medical Center was reached for comment, but did not respond.
All Americans Veterans and military families
Do you think the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has lived up to its motto “to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan?”
How much do you think the following contribute to the well-being of our society?
Source: YouGovGraphic: Tribune News Service
Medical doctors
Members of the military
Scientists
Teachers
Engineers
Clergy
Artists
Business executives
Journalists
Lawyers
Veterans Day poll
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11%
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66%
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66
65
62
60
35
21
17
17
13
No
Source: YouGov
Graphic: Tribune newS Service
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Evil is a virus with no vaccine, and it is back with vengeance, leaving the world looking to a testosterone-clouded team of genetically modified soldiers, a demigod and a billionaire to save the world.
Marvel’s latest blockbuster “Aveng-ers: Age of Ultron,” directed by Joss Whedon, overflows with brain-blow-ing, superhero action but lacks a story that resonates longer than the walk back to the car.
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is still the elitist narcissist of the team, leaving the team in the dark on an
important discovery. Hoping to bring permanent peace to planet Earth, Stark, who has world peace in mind, creates Ultron (James Spader), but at the cost of life on earth. The Avengers are up against a cyber-villain that must cham-pion for helpless earthlings once again.
The special-effects action in this film is nothing short of exceptional.
The up-close and larger-than-life ac-tion scenes audiences crave, thanks to revolving 3D camera angles, are taken
to a whole new level. As the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Iron Man tear through skyscrapers and rip robots limb from limb the audience is catapulted straight into combat.
As with most sequels, familiar actors in familiar roles keep the acting on par with its predecessor. Surprisingly “Ul-tron” misses the mark in the comedy department in comparison to the previ-ous Avengers flick.
A drawn out bit on Captain Ameri-
ca’s (Chris Evans) old-fashioned man-ners takes up about a third of the wise-cracks and could have been replaced with more of the go-to, superhero puns that have been a hit in the past.
Marvel’s most encyclopedic fans that tuned into “Agents of Shield” and saw “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” will follow the backstory with ease. For those diving in from the previous Avengers film, there are a few ‘Wait, what?’ moments in the narrative that may leave newcomers a bit disoriented.
Despite the minor holes in the over-all narrative, the audience is rewarded with an interesting backstory for each of the characters, retold through tele-pathic-induced hallucinations. Unfor-tunately, the attempts at tugging the non-existent heartstrings of action fans the rich visions.
Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the Hulk are caught in a roman-tic sub-plot from left field and way too strange to make an impact. Addition-ally, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) has a humanizing secret that is both unnec-essary and distracting from the main plot, which unveils as nothing special.
The human race is on the verge of ex-tinction, but audiences know that none of the heroes will die and there is going to be a sequel.
So, where is the suspense? Superhero movies rarely break from the predict-able feel-good ending and Marvel’s summer release is no exception.
The film is a visual experience and a thrill ride, making it a must see on the big screen. Its worn-out plot will leave more sophisticated audiences disap-pointed—but not completely. Marvel’s movies are meant to entertain. “Ul-tron’s” spectacular violence and heart-pounding showdowns do just that.
Riveting superhero action, but not super-fresh Collapsing buildings, immeasurableexplosions and a lot of Hulk smashing carry Marvel’s latest release.
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Joss WhedonRobert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris HemsworthPG-13
DOGScontinued from page 1
Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” owned the movie box office this weekend with $191.2-million on its debut. It falls short of the first Aveng-ers’ film, which holds the record for highest grossing film debut.
Councilwoman Suzie Price and she said it was a controversial is-sue.”
Located near the Belmont Pier, Rosie’s Dog Beach was named and inspired after the late English bull-dog of local resident and commu-nity leader, Justin Rudd. It has been sectioned off by the city so various mutts from all over California and other states can freely frolic at the beach.
But it wasn’t always like this. After seeing the seldom amount
of off-leash dog beaches in Los Angeles County, Rudd said that he decided to take matters into his own hands, and slowly but surely got Long Beach’s city council to approve a permanent “dog beach zone.” Corbett hopes that the ped-path can garner the same success.
Because many dog owners ap-preciate the continuing success and longevity of the dog beach, some owners feel that expansion and being able to showcase the beach as “dog-friendly” plays a critical role in the image of the beach.
“People tend to be nice and the dogs are very well behaved,” Edwin Ramirez, a junior computer science major at CSULB, said. “If anything, we should allocate [the perimeters] more.”
Corbett noted that this newly con-structed path would be beneficial to dog owners and dogs alike.
“The mayor is constantly saying [how] we want to bring visitors to Long Beach,” Corbett said. “[The taxpayers] spent $6 million for a ped-path. Here is a way. Otherwise, they’ll drive to Huntington or Seal Beach.”
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STRESScontinued from page 1
Lauren Til-lotson says hello to Fluffy, a therapy dog with The Bright and Beautiful Therapy Dog group, in front of the law li-brary at Chap-man University Law School for some stress relief on during finals week on April 30.
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and psychiatrist Vanessa Braver’s five tips for “surviving” finals week. Braver advises students to prepare a plan be-fore the week begins, “avoid emotion-ally draining people,” create and keep a positive space, eat, sleep and “maintain a broader perspective.”
Braver explains that one or three exams will not frame the rest of your life. A “C” is not the end of the world.
“Test scores and specific grades will matter very little years from now,” Braver said. “Reframe your thinking to focus on the big picture as well as your long-term goals.”
There are many resources on campus to cope with finals week. Stop by CAPS in
Brotman Hall to have a one-on-one ther-apy session with a qualified psychiatrist. Play with a therapy dog in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. Pop a squat on the many lawns across campus.
Students of California State Univer-sity, Long Beach: it is going to be okay. Finals week is five to seven days of ex-ams to prove that you paid an inch of attention in your classes this semester. Believe it or not, school is for learning.
So prove to yourself this finals week that you can tackle exams, you can com-plete that monotonous group project and you can expertly scour the internet for that long-awaited, semester-defining re-search paper.
Queen Victoria, the longest-ever reigning female monarch, once said, “We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”
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Long Beach State’s softball team re-mains in the hunt for a share of the Big West Conference title, but they must first sweep UC Santa Barbara and hope Fullerton does the same against Northridge.
The 49ers (25-24, 12-6) will host the Gauchos (19-32, 6-12) on Friday and Saturday at the 49er Softball Complex in the final series of the season.
“We’re just keeping the focus on ourselves,” head coach Kim Sowder said. “[We’re] trying to play good soft-ball and have a good weekend for our seniors.”
The 49ers are riding a three-game winning streak into their final series after sweeping Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. The sweep came thanks to stellar performances from right-hand-er Christina Clermont and infielder LT Torres.
Clermont contributed by throwing her ninth complete game in a row in an 8-3 win on Sunday, bringing her season total to 17 complete games. The sophomore lowered her earned run av-erage down to 2.30 and improved her record to 18-7.
Torres accumulated five hits in the entire series, one of which was her first-ever collegiate home run; a two-run shot in the fifth inning of LBSU’s 2-1 victory on May 2. The freshman said she was surprised by the homer, but also said she has what it takes to hit more.
“Honestly I didn’t think [the ball] was going out at first,” Torres said. “It was a good feeling and I hope for an-other one, maybe. I know I’m capable of doing it, it’s just doing it. I think I’ll get stronger.”
Long Beach State notched a differ-ent kind of sweep earlier this week when Torres and Clermont each col-lected Big West Player of the Week awards. It is the first weekly award for Torres and a league-leading fourth for Clermont.
“It’s a great honor to get four [awards], let alone one,” Clermont said. “I’m proud of them, we work hard
and those just come with it.”The Carlsbad native will face a
tough UCSB lineup this weekend. Even though the Gauchos are sitting in sixth in runs scored in the Big West, they have the third best batting aver-age (.302) in the conference.
Sophomore outfielder Kristen Clark, the Freshman Player of the Year last season, leads UCSB with 68 hits and a .370 average.
“Offensively, [UCSB] are one of the best in our conference for sure,” Sowder said. “They’ve been playing well recently. They had a couple of wins in Hawaii. Santa Barbara can
beat anybody.”Santa Barbara’s Achilles’ heel has
been its pitching staff. The Gauchos’ 5.30 team ERA is last in the Big West. UCSB’s pitchers have given up a league-worst 346 runs on the season compared to just 202 runs scored.
“I’m excited to play [Santa Barba-ra],” Clermont said. “It’s our last week-end. We’ll go out with a bang.”
The 49ers will wrap up their sea-son against UC Santa Barbara with a doubleheader on Friday and a series finale on Saturday. First pitch is set for 1 p.m. on both days at the 49er Softball Complex.
With a stretch of six consecutive conference series behind them, the Long Beach State baseball team will now turn its attention to Indiana for a three-game series beginning Fri-day at Bart Kaufman Field.
The Dirtbags (24-20, 8-10 Big West) offense showed signs of life Tuesday when they combined for 12 runs and 14 hits against UNLV. They still rank last in nearly every offen-sive category in the Big West, but showcased an effective lineup away from Blair Field.
Sophomore shortstop Garrett Hampson said it felt good to snap a three-game losing streak, but he is now turning his focus to an unfa-miliar Indiana terrain.
“I’ve never played there before but I’ve heard they have an offensive [friendly] ball park,” Hampson said. “Last year [Indiana] was shocked at how big our field is.”
Hampson continues to be effec-tive as the lead-off man for the Dirt-bags. He is batting .301 and leads the team with 53 hits. Hampson is proving to be a dangerous base run-ner this season and is third in the conference with 16 stolen bases.
The Hoosiers (26-19, 9-10 Big Ten) had a big weekend with a series
sweep over conference opponent Maryland. They are part of a rugged Big Ten conference, which includes No.6 Illinois and No.18 Iowa. Head coach Chris Lemonis is in his first year with the Hoosiers after spend-ing the previous eight seasons with Louisville.
The most dangerous player at the plate for the Hoosiers is senior des-ignated hitter Scott Donley.
He leads the team with a .347 batting average, and a .406 on base percentage. He is also eighth in the conference with 60 hits.
Dirtbags junior right fielder Zack Rivera said the team needs to gel better on the field in order to win the series.
“If we do that we’re going to start winning some games,” Rivera said. “We just need to get back to playing [team] baseball and having fun.”
Senior righty Kyle Friedrichs is set to get the start on the mound for the Dirtbags Friday night. Fried-richs has a 2.62 ERA and leads the Big West with 88 strikeouts.
The Hoosiers starting rotation features junior lefty Kyle Hart who is 2-0 on the season and leads all starters with a 2.03 ERA.
Apart from their offense, the big-gest challenge for the Dirtbags this season has been winning on the road where they are only 6-11. Head coach Troy Buckley said it comes from not being a mentally tough team.
“We have not played well on the road,” Buckley said. “We have an opportunity to get away from [Blair Field] and see how we can rally and compete.”
The first pitch is set for 3:05 p.m. Friday at Bart Kaufman Field.
The Long Beach State women’s tennis team will make its 12th NCAA tourna-ment appearance on Saturday when it takes on Virginia Tech in the first round.
The 49ers are coming off their 12th Big West title after they defeated UC Santa Barbara on April 26. Head coach Jenny Hilt-Costello said the team’s diffi-cult schedule played a major part in get-ting LBSU ready for the tourney.
“We took a few losses,” Hilt-Costello said. “A few tough losses this year that I think maybe got away from us. But each
and every one of those was a learning ex-perience. On our Chicago trip, we went 1-2 on that road trip. It exposed some weaknesses we really needed to focus on.”
A positive turning point for the 49ers came on March 31 when they dropped matches to DePaul and Illinois when they traveled to Chicago. LBSU had to play in-
doors, which Costello described as a dif-ferent animal than playing outdoors.
The losses allowed LBSU to identify and fix some of the weaknesses it other-wise wouldn’t have recognized.
“Indoors you’re not dealing with the elements,” Hilt-Costello said. “You’ve got kids who play indoors regularly. Their teeing off on the ball a little bit more freely then we do when we play outdoors. The schools that we played, they came out and played really aggressive, big-ball tennis with us when we were back there and we played a little bit too conservatively. That kind of bit us in the butt.”
Sophomore Hayley Thompson said the team was confident heading in to its matchup with the Hokies, who earned a No. 2 seed in the tournament.
“I’m sure [Virginia Tech is] going to have a strong doubles and singles lineup,” Thompson said. “I heard their doubles
lineup was a little weaker. Hopefully we can get that point to get started. I think we have a good singles team that will be presentable.”
Hilt-Costello echoed Thompson’s message on the team’s confidence, saying she thinks the 49ers are better than their current No. 38 ranking and that they are more than capable of knocking off any school.
“We played some doubles [in the Big West Tournament], which was really strong in the final match,” Hilt-Costello said. “That has been a point of contention for us [for most] of the season, trying to get our doubles in shape and I think it fi-nally culminated in the finals against UC Santa Barbara where it’s like, OK, this is where we’ve been working toward; this is the kind of doubles that we can play.”
The 49ers have reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament on
three occasions, the last time being last year when they upset No. 21 Tulsa but lost No. 11 Stanford in the following round.
The Hokies (16-9, 7-7) lost to North Carolina in the ACC Tournament, but still managed to secure one of the top seeds. Sophomore Francesca Fusinato and junior Illinca Stoica were named to the All-ACC Second Team.
“[Virginia Tech] plays a tough con-ference schedule, just like we do,” Hilt-Costello said. “Quite honestly, one through six I think we can compete with anybody. Of course, Virginia Tech isn’t going to hand it to us, so we know we’re going to have to work at it and earn it ev-ery point.”
The 49ers will make the short drive to Los Angeles to take on Virginia Tech in the first round of the NCAA Tourna-ment on Saturday starting at 9 a.m. at the Marks Tennis Center.
49ers hope to crash their way into the postseason
Heading into Indy
LBSU tennis seeks tourney upset
LBSU needs nothing less than a sweep against UCSB in order to keep thier championship hopes alive.
With only 10 games left in the season, LBSU needs to win-out if they hope to make a postseason appearance.
The Beach will play close to home against a Hokies team traveling cross-country.
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Long Beach State swept Cal Poly in a three games series last weekend. The Beach will close out the regular season with a three-game series against UC Santa Barbara at the 49er Softball Complex starting on Thursday.
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Long Beach State snapped its three game losing streak with a 12-6 win against University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Dirtbag’s have won two of its last five games and are in sixth place in the division.
