The Beach Women's Soccer team falls short in an overtime loss at UC Santa Barbra

After trailing earlier the 49er's took a second half lead but couldn't hold on to it and suffered a gut-wrenching loss at conference-leading UC Santa Barbra 3-2.

The 49ers fell to 5-7-2 overall and 1-2 in the Big West, while the Gauchos improved to 7-7-1, 4-1 in the conference.

Sophomore Shawna Gordon has continued to play well by scoring another goal this season and added an assist. The assist went to Junior Bo Rael, who scored her first goal of her career.

UCSB scored first in the 28th minute when Jacqui Simon sent a through ball to Kailyn Kulger, who found Kylie McDonald fot her first goal of the season.

The Beach had six shots on goal in the first half but could not score. Shawna Gordon and freshmen Jenny Soza had two shots each.

The score was eventually tied when Gordon made a great shot, when she made a 20 yard shot over the UCSB goalkeeper at the 70:51 mark. It was her fifth goal of the season.

Rael then help the 49ers take the lead with her goal nearly 12 minutes later. The Gachos then scored on a header by McDonald in the 86th minute. She scored after her teammates intial shot went off the crossbar. The Gauchos scored in the sudden death overtime to take the win.

Long Beach State returns to action on Sunday, Oct. 18, when it travels to San Luis Obispo for a 1 p.m. showdown with Cal Poly.

Three Women's tennis players reach the Fullerton Invitational finals

Jaklin Alawi and Rachel Manasse defeated the doubles team of Cal Poly on the way to advancing to the Flight A Doubles championship match at the Fullerton Invitational. The duo was joined by Julie Luzar who has played well all fall with two more single wins.

Alawi and Manasse enjoyed the win of the day when they defeated a ranked Mustangs duo of Markhoff/Matzenauer winning 8-6 and advancing to the semifinals. The duo then defeated the team from Cal State Northridge 8-4 to advance to the finals. They will face another Cal Poly duo, this time going against Blalock and Wong who defeated the other 49er tandem Deborah Armstrong and Anais Dallara 8-6.

Julie Luzar singles magic has continued by beating Concordia's Krisitin Yep 6-4, 6-3 before her exciting win against CS Northridge's Brooke Doane 7-5, 7-6 (3). Luzar will now play Joclyn Davis in the Flight B singles final tomorrow.

The Women's volleyball team has moved their winning streak to six matches

The Women's volleyball team continues to win after two league wins at home against Cal Poly and Santa Barbara.

It started with their five set win against Santa Barbara Friday. Once again the All-American Naomi Washington helped lead the team to the win with seven kills down the stretch. This was a really back and forth match. Long Beach State started by winning the first two sets but UC Santa Barbara answered back by winning the next two. It sent the match to a final set. In the final set the 49ers took an early lead and never let up and finally won the match. Junior Ashley Lee put in a great performance with 50 assits and 15 digs.

The following day the 49ers had another home game but this one was easier. The 49ers won this game in three quick sets. Once again Washington and Lee enjoyed good games along with Caitlin Ledoux. Though they were outplayed some sets the 49ers still were able to win.

After these two home wins, Long Beach State will take their undefeated Big West record on the road for three matches. The 49ers head north to take on UC Davis and Pacific starting on Oct. 9, and then travel to UC Irvine to take on the Anteaters.

A Rhodes Scholar candidate will be leading the Women's basketball team this year

Senoir Lauren Sims, the team captain for the 49er women's basketball team has been selected as Long Beach State's institutional representative to the Rhodes Scholar selection committee.

Sims is a biology-physiology major with a minor in chemistry. Sims has maintained a 4.0 grade average while also being a participant in numerous community activities.

Ever since coming to the campus she has been a great student-athlete. Sims is a two-time Big West Conference all-academic selection and was the voted as the LBSU 2008-2009 Big West Female Scholar-Athlete of the year. She has also received many other NCAA scholar awards.

On the court Sims currently ranks fourth on the 49er career charts in 3-point field goals made and is sixth in 3-point field goals attempted and 3-point field goal percentage.