How goes it BGSR fan? I hope you're thanksgiving break was as awesome, and filled your self silly with turkey.
SOOOO it was good to be back and doing my show again. I had the week off, but the break must thrown my skills off because it was far from perfect. I couldn't get my any of my SFX to work, and that totally through me off.
I had a couple bright spots though. Mark Andrews came on the show as a guest. If you're not familiar with Mark he was the ASI President two years ago and a really good friend of mine. He is actually going off to the marines tomorrow and thought it would be cool to have him come on and hang out with him before he shipped out. We just talked about his time as president and what it was like working for the the Long Beach Athletic Dept.
I also had my first callers!!! Even though you couldn't hear the whole call for one..and heard me briefing the other caller when a SONG WAS PLAYING. But it was still pretty awesome having my first callers. Keep calling guys it will only get better haha.
On to some LBSU news...
Over the thanksgiving weekend The Beach was pretty busy with women's volleyball and Men's and women's Basketball. Every year the women's team plays in the Mizuno Classic, and it didn't start out so well. They lost the opening game to TCU, but The Beach bounced back strong and won the next three games against UNLV, LMU, and Utah st.
The Women's Basketball team played in a tourny hosted by the Univ of Miami AKA "DA U". The Beach opened the tourny against the canes but they were just too much for them, and lost 83-66. The next day The Beach faced Rice and got contributions from everyone which led to victory. The Beach also faced USC which was a big game because that was where Coach Wynn was assistant coach before coming to LBSU. The Beach looked undersized but that didn't seem to matter as they played really scrappy and Karina's rapid scoring (26) cut the women of troy's lead to 3 with 18 seconds left. But solid free throw shooting sealed the deal.
The Men's Basketball team played in the third annual 76 Classic at the Anaheim Convention Center. I was able to attend two of the three games. The first game was against West Virginia, and to say the least we had it handed to us (85-62). It was the first game they looked over matched in AND they're best player Devin Ebanks didn't even play.
The next game was against Clemson or as President Alexander would say "Clempson". I watched this game on television, and I don't know what Monson said to those guys but it definitely lit a fire under their butts. They played really aggressive and got to the line a significantly more than their counterparts, but they missed 14 freethrows....and ended up losing by 8, 87-79.
Sunday's game The Beach played against UCLA in the 7th place game, and the first half was very sloppy on both sides. Even though it was sloppy I knew Long Beach was a better team and we could win. At the half The beach was up and one and soon stretched the lead to as many as 17 points. Long Beach looked like the dominant team through the whole second half and went on to win 79-68. Picking up the win over the Bruins gives Long Beach their first win in 12 tries.
I specifically didn't say who was the leading scorer in all three games in the above paragraph because he deserved his own. TJ Robinson was an absolute beast this tourny YES TJ Robinson and not Larry Anderson. TJ scored double figures in all three games including back to back 25 point games against Clemson and UCLA earning him a spot on the All 76 Classic Tourny team. Larry was the exact opposite failing to score double digits in all three games and getting his first FG against UCLA.
The Men's team continues their disgustingly hard non conf schedule when the take on Texas on Monday. In case you've forgotten they also play Kentucky, and Duke. If we can get an upset on any of those teams I would burst out tears of joy to say the least.
So Santa I think I've been good...CAN I GET AN UPSET PLZZ!!!!????
PS- I have a special guest for this week....Star Defender Nicole Hubbard from the women's soccer team be sure to tune in!!!!
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