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(12,066 out of 35,367) CSULB students voted in the USU Referendum.

In favor: 3,765Opposed: 7,666Blank votes: 635

34.1%

STUDENTS VOTE AGAINST FEE

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The University Student Union Fee Referendum marked the highest voter turnout in the history of California State University, Long Beach.

By Eddie Rivera Contributing Writer

By Kevin FloresAssistant Video Producer

By Paige Pelonis and Amy PattonEditorial Staff

The Dirtbags completed their first sweep of the season.

Students discussed the rich-es of liberty at the Land of the Free panel discussion on Friday.

BaseBall

Chasing freedom

A student stands at the front of a silent room, filled with so much emotion that he is unable to speak.

The Finding FreedomT in the Land of the Free panel discussion, held Thursday evening in the Liberal Arts 2 building, began with guest speaker Maulana Karenga from the Af-rican Studies Department defining freedom to frame the conversation.

Electrical engineering major Nusdeen Sa-lami looked over the podium and out at the diverse faces – dark-skinned, light-skinned, women in hijabs. His eyelids fell to half-mast.

A panelist, Iman Jihad Saafir, looked up at Salami and said, “Struggle builds resilience.”

Freshmen right-handers Chris Mathewson and Darren McCaughan combined to throw the first no-hitter in Long Beach State history as the Dirt-bags completed a three-game sweep over Wichita State at Blair Field on Sunday.

Mathewson threw the first seven innings of the game, striking out eight batters in the Dirtbags’ (8-3) historic 4-0 win over the Shockers (3-7). Mathewson’s lone walk kept the Dirtbags from a perfect game.

“I just went out there pitching not really think-ing about it,” Mathewson said. “It’s pretty exciting. I never knew it was the first one in the team’s his-tory.”

McCaughan took over in the eighth, striking out three batters in the final two innings to seal the win

and the sweep. “I just tried not to look at the scoreboard,” Mc-

Caughan said. “No one was talking about it but in the back of my mind I know it was there.”

Senior right-hander Kyle Friedrichs was up to his usual tricks, striking out 12 hitters in the Dirt-bags 7-0 rout of the Shockers Friday night. Frie-drichs is 3-0 on the season and has double digit

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The Associated Students Inc. launched the “It starts with you” campaign in fall 2014 to promote the USU Referendum.

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Long Beach State freshmen pitchers Chris Mathewson and Darren McCaughan made history on Sunday by denying Wichita State any hits in the Dirtbags’ 4-0 victory over the Shockers.

The Student Fee Advisory Committee will meet on Friday to form a recommendation for Univer-sity President Jane Close-Conoley, who will make the final decision regarding the issue of a Universi-ty Student Union fee increase.

“I’m absolutely siding with the students,” Cono-ley said via telephone after the voting results were announced. She said she would expect to receive a recommendation from the SFAC in about two weeks. “I’m fairly confident that with a 67 percent negative vote, they’re going to send me a negative recommendation.” Conoley said that based on her initial assessment of the voter turnout and the ma-jority opinion, she would most likely accept a neg-

ative recommendation.Vice President of Student Services Dr. Carmen

Tillery Taylor, chair of the SFAC, announced the official results of the referendum to a packed Dr. Stuart L. Farber Senate Chamber on Feb. 26.

“This is the highest voter turnout in the CSULB

63.53%NO

5.27%BLANK VOTES 31.20%

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1 p.m. — 3 p.m. Grow Beach community proj-ect committee meeting USU 304

8:30 a.m. — 10:30 a.m.Student Fee Advisory Commit-tee meeting to discuss the USU Referendum USU 205

10 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. CAPS wellness workshop USU 303 11:15 a.m. — noon Student Life and Development food handling workshop USU 305M T W Th F

6 p.m. — 9 p.m. HSBA semi-networking event Soroptimist House

6 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. City of Long Beach discus-sion: “My Brother’s Keeper” Ernest McBride Park

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Over 100 Latina California State University, Long Beach students gath-ered in the University Student Union ballrooms to foster community ties and a sense of belonging to the campus.

On Friday, CSULB held the 14th an-nual Latina Connection Conference in order to provide encouragement and support for Latina students on campus.

As of fall 2013, there are 11,164 La-tino and Latina students enrolled at CSULB, which is the largest ethnic de-mographicT on campus, according to the university website.

Natalia Gatdula, the director of com-munity-based programs at the CSULB Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation and Leadership Training, said she first attended the event her ju-nior year in 2006 and helped coordinate this year’s conference.

“We want to have a place for Latina students to connect, to find a mentor

and to feel empowered, Gatdula said. “The program throughout the day is designed so that they will meet other Latina students so that they can find a sense of belonging to the campus and so they will feel connected to the campus and other Latina students and staff.”

The event included one-on-one ice-breaker activities and group discus-sions.

Keynote speaker Sylvia Padilla, a fourth grade teacher at Patrick Hen-ry Elementary, said she was hesitant when asked to be a speaker, but her love for CSULB convinced her to par-ticipate.

“I think there are many times where

we stop ourselves from taking oppor-tunities, but I thought about it and I love the school,” Padilla said. “This is my University where I made my dreams come true so I wanted to give back. Especially to the Latinas.”

Padilla’s speech highlighted her 500-mile trek on the Camino de San-tiago in Spain, which took over 30 days to complete. Padilla brought many in the audience to tears as she tied in her experiences in life with the trek she en-deavored and used it to connect with the audience.

She said that during her journey, she and her husband made friends with others on the trail. Padilla said com-mon experiences helped build com-

munity, such as the way the conference intended audience members to do.

Lynda Aguayo, a freshman politi-cal science and Chicano studies major, said she was moved by Padilla’s speech.

“She really inspired me to think that we are not alone and we are together,” Aguayo said. “A lot of the girls feel like they are alone and she is encouraging us, empowering us, and making us feel better about ourselves.”

Aguayo said that the biggest lesson that she took from the Latina Connec-tion Conference was to share the posi-tive messages to not only Latinas, but to other girls as well, by building each other up rather than bringing them down.

The Latina Connection Conference aimed to encourage Latina students to form bonds.

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Kevin Flores | Daily 49er The Department of African Studies, in collaboration with the African Student Union and the African Studies Student Association, hosted “Finding Freedom in the Land of the Free” to discuss the struggle of discrimination in the U.S.

By Robert GuerreroContributing Writer

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“There are two kinds of freedom,” Karenga said. “… Freedom from domi-nation, deprivation and degradation. And freedom to realize ourselves, to come into the fullness of ourselves, to realize our full potential as both indi-viduals and groups.”

He then asked the audience of about 35 if they thought they were free.

Halimato Bruce from the CSULB Muslim Student Association, who grew up in Ghana, said she was devastated to learn that freedom is not the same for everybody after she immigrated.

“I have a brother who, unfortunately, every time he goes out my dad has to tell him to be careful and not to stay out past ten because someone might look at him the wrong way,” Bruce said. “We don’t have the freedom that we should have.”

Reggie Vincent, the CSULB African Student Union president who hosted and participated in the panel discussion, said that as a black male he sometimes feels “like a prisoner in [his] own skin.”

“Just because I’m black I get a cer-tain kind of treatment…” Vincent said. “If I go into a restaurant or if I go into a liquor store, people follow me. It just feels like I’m always being prejudged the wrong way.”

The event also featured speaker Sister Victoria Caldwell who addressed issues concerning ethnic identity and freedom from oppression.

“The fact that you are judging some-one without knowing them means that somebody has indoctrinated you,” Sister Caldwell said. “My dad was big on us thinking. He would say, ‘Don’t ever let anybody do your thinking for you.’ It’s difficult when you’ve been homegrown and fed one story, but you have to rec-ognize that if you’ve been indoctrinated, you’ve been enslaved, basically.”

Muslim Student Association Presi-dent Bilal Zaheen offered the story of his mother who is from Uganda. When the oppressive dictator Idi Amin took con-trol of the country, her family was given 90 days to leave due to their ethnicity.

“Forty years later my mother wears a hijab in the United States and faces a different wavelength of discrimina-tion,” Zaheen said. “Discrimination and prejudice is something that transcends cultures, religions, ethnicities, anything that is tangible.”

Zaheen said that discrimination is still happening in American society and that citizens “must take it upon ourselves to combat it.”

The Department of African Studies hosted the event with the African Stu-dent Union and the African Studies Stu-dent Association.

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34.1 percent of CSULB students voted on Feb. 25-26 on the USU Referendum: 7,666 students voted against the fee increase, 3,765 students voted in favor and 635 students left a blank vote. The USU Referendum had the largest voter turnout in the history of the university.

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Ca m p u s Vo i C epresident Jane Close-Conoley will

make the final deCision on the usu fee inCrease. what are your thoughts?

“It depends on the students and what they believe … I would want to increase the fees so that we can have a

better campus.”

—Aziz Aljaber, junior electrical engineering

major

“What’s the point of us voting if she is going to

have the final say? That’s my question.”

—Nicholas Pavlakovich , senior chemistry major

“I’m a senior and I’ll be leaving soon, but I feel like there isn’t enough

information given. If she were to decide against the students, I would create

more of an uproar.”

—Kelly Radecki, senior biology major

“She is the administrator, so it makes sense that

we’re not the only ones making the decision.”

—Richard Patino, senior mechanical engineering

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history,” Taylor said, regarding the 34.1 percent of CSULB stu-dents who voted via email on this referendum.

Of the votes cast, 7,666 (63.53 percent) opposed against the fee increase, and 3,765 (31.20 percent) favored it. The remain-ing 635 votes recored came in as blank, which reflected students

who chose the “skip” option at the bottom of the email ballot. The official voting period began at midnight on Feb. 24 and ended at midnight on Feb. 26.

According to an Associated Students Inc. media release, ASI Executive Director Richard Haller said regarding the results, “We are amazed by the turnout and proud of our students for being so en-gaged.”

University Student Union Di-rector Dr. Dave Edwards said, ac-cording the ASI release, “The end

result wasn’t what we were hoping for, but I am extremely happy that students had a voice in the process and that CSULB exceeded the na-tional trends in student voter en-gagement.”

“I have, for obvious reasons, kept a distance from this refer-endum effort,” Conoley said via email on Tuesday. “Although I ... understand the pulse of the stu-dents’ opinions.”

The SFAC will meet on Friday from 8:30-10:30 a.m. in USU 205.

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Olivier DOuliery | AbAcA Press | TNsU.S. President Barack Obama meets with a group of young undocumented immi-grants in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 4, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The five immigrants, known as “dreamers,” who meet with the president have re-ceived protections from deportation under a program Obama implemented in 2012.

The time has come for Congress to discuss the problems with our immigration policy and produce legislation to address it.

It’s not an issue with simple solutions, and wading through the complexities of fixing our broken immigration system is not an easy job. But that’s what Capitol Hill is for, and the clock is ticking.

Legislators should take the first step of at least discussing reform, setting aside partisan politics – if only for a second – and agreeing that immi-

gration is a pillar of America in need of repair. American voters agree.In Dec. 2014, 69 percent of voters in a Beyond

the Beltway Insights Initiative poll said they would like to see the new Congress make legisla-tion dealing with immigration, according to The Hill, an online news source.

There were about 11.3 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States in 2013, according to Pew Research.

That’s greater than the population of Los Angeles.

Many of these immigrants see themselves as Americans and contribute to the American economy.

Rather than addressing the fact that 5.1 percent of our country’s labor force was made up of undocumented immigrants in 2012, that

maybe those hard-working people aren’t so bad and that maybe we should make their path to citizenship a little easier, congress sat on their hands.

Then, in November of last year, President Obama announced his executive action plan, in which his third step was to “deal responsibly with the millions of immigrants who live in this country.”

Now, a federal judge stepped in on Feb. 15, the day before people were to begin applying for work permits, to say that Obama exceeded his authority.

The stage is set for Congress to act, yet mil-lions of undocumented immigrants remain casualties of political stagnation rather than beneficiaries of American progress.

Maria Lopez is a fellow California State University, Long Beach student and a member of Future Educated Underrepresented Leaders, a student organization that seeks to empower the undocumented CSULB community.

“According to the law, I’m a criminal,” Lopez, a senior Chicano and Latino studies major, said.

She is one of roughly 600 undocumented im-migrants on campus.

Lopez was brought into the U.S. as a 3-year-old, unaware that she lacked citizenship until she began to apply for college.

“All of a sudden, education was cut off for me,” Lopez said.

Some people recognize that it is a touchy subject, but maintain that we have these laws for a reason.

“It does make me feel bad, but letting people break the law because we feel bad doesn’t seem logical,” Samantha Alonso, first year undeclared major, said.

There are two sides to every coin, and it’s a complex issue.

However, we elect our leaders precisely to deal with these complex issues, and there’s a very simple place to start: Talk about it.

11 million people aren’t going away.Your move, Congress.

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Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses – so that we may send them back.

Fear sometimes feels like a whirlwind that can be triggered at any moment and escalate within seconds.

Sudden panic, anxiety, sweat, muscle tension, in-creased heart-rate, inability to breathe, followed by numb-ness, perhaps a steady flow of hysterical tears, hyper-ventilation and a trip to the emergency room – this is the downward-spiraling, death-drop rollercoaster that phobic individuals go through when they are exposed to the source of their fear.

This goes far beyond feel-ings of dislike that people without a phobia may feel toward snakes or spiders. A phobia is a medical condition that can cause severe psycho-logical reactions with physical manifestations and an in-ability to function normally in educational, work or social settings.

According to a 2014 statisti-cal report by the National Institute of Mental Health, 6.3 million Americans suffer from a diagnosed phobia. This does not include the number of in-dividuals who have not sought or do not meet the criteria for a medical diagnosis as defined in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Life can become very dif-ficult for many individuals who suffer from a phobia. I suffer from ornithophobia, or the phobia of birds, so I know firsthand that it requires in-

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Unfortunately, in ad-dition to having to deal

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To provide you with a better understanding of what I mean, here are some of the questions I have been asked:

“Are you just scared of [in-sert fear here], or do you really have a phobia?”

Anyone who has irrational physical and emotional symp-toms after thinking about or being exposed to the source of his or her fear has a phobia, whether it is diagnosed or simply understood.

“So what would happen if I brought you to a place where there are [insert fear here]?”

Read the beginning of this article where I list all of the things that you would put me through by doing that. But I prefer to answer this question with another question: Why would you feel the need to test my fear?

“Have you tried looking for medical help?”

Yes, but receiving a medical diagnosis and treatment is not as simple as walking into a medical center and bearing your arm for a flu shot.

Diagnosis requires a series of psychological exams that are not always covered by insurance. Additionally, some individuals do not have the luxury of time or money in order to undergo the exams.

If you are lucky enough to have the opportunity to seek help, your fate is also decided by a strict set of criteria set by the American Psychiatric Association.

According to the UK Na-tional Health Service, treat-ments include medication and psychotherapy. The most common medications include antidepressants, sedatives and beta-blockers.

Therapeutic treatments include cognitive behavioral and desensitization therapy, both of which require some aspect of phobic exposure. This means undergoing con-stant and regular exposure to the source of all your troubles. The thought of this treatment alone makes me begin to panic.

I personally prefer not to drown my body in unneces-sary drugs or therapies that may or may not work. So, although I have sought medi-cal attention for my abnormal fear of birds, I have yet to be medically diagnosed.

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Zoot-suit tributeThe Chicano Latino Studies Student Association held a Pachuca swing event to raise funds and educate students.

Two volunteers stepped forward from the crowd, and the man with the microphone handed them an elongated black, zip-closed bag with clothes inside.

They fumbled to unzip it and took turns pulling out the bag’s contents one by one to dress the naked man-nequin: a hat, a dress shirt, suspend-ers, wide-legged trousers that gath-ered at the bottom and a long coat.

Slowly, it became clear that the ensemble made up a zoot suit.

“The Pachucas and Pachucos had their own unique style,” Chicano and Latino studies professor Nicholas Centino told the crowd at the first Pachuca Swing event presented by the Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Stu-dent Association on Friday evening. The association held the fundraiser at the Soroptomist House on campus.

The event was free of charge un-der one condition: no suit, no swing.

For one night, the backyard of the Soroptomist House became a scene from the ‘40s. Jazz music blared as fedora-capped men adorning zoot suits with chains danced with ladies rocking pompadour up-dos. Con-tests clarified who was the “most firme,” a Chicano slang term mean-ing cool, with titles awarded to Most Firme Pachuca, Most Firme Pachu-co and Most Firme Couple.

The association sold traditional

Mexican foods such as tamales, nachos and arroz con leche and raffled off baskets full of assorted goods as part of the fundraiser.

Not all students in attendance were affiliated with Chicana/o Latina/o studies department or CHLSSA.

Freshman Valerie Garcia, a pre-graphic design major at CSULB,

said that she heard about the event earlier that day in her social dance class. Garcia’s dance partner, Fran-cisco Juarez, a sixth year civil engi-neering major at CSULB, said that they chose to come to the Pachuca Swing event over a night in Los An-geles, unaware that the event was a fundraiser.

“I hope they do more of these be-cause I had a lot of fun,” Garcia said. “If they continue [to have Pachuca Swing nights], I will come.”

Co-president of CHLSSA Janine Solano said that the event served a dual purpose of raising money for their association’s student center on campus and to educate students about Chicano/Latino culture.

Solano said that when people think of Pachucismo, they tend to think of 1940s gangsters that started the Zoot Suit, which is not necessar-ily the whole story.

“It was a fashion statement—it was a style that Latinos wanted to have,” Solano said, looking around at the guests who were all dressed in Pachuca garb. “Pachucismo is a very misunderstood part of Mexican cul-ture because people either have a negative stigma about it or they have the wrong history.”

Dressed head-to-toe for the oc-casion was Luis Guerrero, the social chair for CHLSSA.

“The style was a resistance,” Guerrero said. “At the time, Pachu-cas and Pachucos were seen as unpa-triotic vagabonds; they empowered themselves through their suits.”

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An upset victory over No. 12 UCLA highlighted a successful week-end for the Long Beach State softball team in the Long Beach Louisville Slugger Invitational at Mayfair Park.

An electrifying crowd of 1,255 people, split evenly between Bruin and 49er fans, watched as sophomore right-hander Christina Clermont and senior right-hander Amanda Hansen led the 49ers (10-10) to a 5-4 win over the Bruins (17-5) on Friday night.

“[This win] feels awesome,” soph-omore infielder Lauren Lombardi said after the game. “It’s a real hon-or to be able to beat a top team like UCLA.”

Bruin’s infielder Stephanie LaRosa launched a two-run home run to tie the game at two a piece and junior catcher Brittany Moeai hit a solo shot to give UCLA a temporary lead in the top of the fourth.

The 49ers responded in the bottom of the fourth. Lombardi crushed a two-run double off Team USA right-hander Ally Carda to give LBSU the lead.

“The umpire was squeezing the zone so I was looking for something

fat in,” Lombardi said. “[Carda] was really working her pitches and with the two strikes I knew I had to be short to the ball. I just needed to make good contact.”

The 49ers dropped a double header Saturday against Stanford (12-10) and Weber State (8-7), both in extra innings. LBSU had its chance against Stanford in the bottom of the seventh with runners on second and third and one out.

The Cardinal escaped trouble

and scored six runs in the top of the eighth to win 11-5.

“We did get key hits offensively at certain times, but we just got close, we just got tied,” head coach Kim Sowder said. “We just couldn’t find a way to get the winning run in.”

Weber State’s Krystin Kubo pow-ered the Wildcats to a 9-8 win with four runs batted in on the night, in-cluding a game winning two-run home run in the top of the ninth. Sowder said the team failed in every

aspect of their game on Saturday. “Offensively we had so many op-

portunities,” Sowder said. “It was every part of the game that could’ve made a difference and win the game for us, and nobody did, both games.”

The 49ers defeated Seattle Univer-sity (6-13) 11-7 on Friday and beat Southern Utah (3-12) 3-1 on Sunday.

The 49ers will host defending na-tional champions and No.1 Florida on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the 49er Softball Complex.

LBSU upsets UCLAA thrilling victory followed by two crushing defeats underlined a rollercoaster weekend for the 49ers.

By Josh Barajas Contributing Writer

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With a 3-1 win over Southern Utah on Sunday, LBSU ended the Long Beach Louisville Slugger International competition with three wins and two losses.

strikeouts in every start.Friedrichs allowed two runners on

base in the first inning, struck out the side to escape trouble. He only allowed three hits and two walks in his seven innings of work.

“The past two outings I’ve been too amped up for the first inning,” Fried-richs said.

“This time, I slowed things down in the bullpen pregame and it really trans-ferred over.”

Junior right-fielder Zack Rivera and sophomore shortstop Garrett Hamp-son led the charge offensively for the Dirtbags once again. Rivera smashed a two-run home run over left field in the seventh inning. Hampson finished with three runs batted in, three hits and two runs.

“Our team was too passive at the plate to start the year,” Rivera said. “Our coaches gave us a challenge to be more aggressive and that’s what we did tonight.”

Freshman outfielder Brock Lun-dquist made his collegiate debut after being sidelined with an injury in the fall. Lundquist immediately produced as the designated hitter with three base hits and one run scored on the night.

“He’s got hitting in his genes,” head coach Troy Buckley said. “It’s what he’s liked to do ever since he was a kid.”

On Saturday night, junior right-hander Tanner Brown took the mound and led the Dirtbags to a 5-2 victory over the Shockers. Brown put up an-other strong performance with five strikeouts, one walk in six innings pitched. Brown gave up two runs but the rest of Dirtbag pitchers shut out the Shockers.

Lundquist proved to be solid at the plate again and led off the second in-ning with a double. He would come around to score on a sacrifice fly from sophomore infielder Nico Maida. Lun-dquist also drew a walk.

The Dirtbags host Loyola Mary-mount Tuesday night at Blair Field at 6 p.m.

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The No. 10 Long Beach State men’s volleyball dropped back-to-back matches to No. 6 Hawaii over the weekend in the Walter Pyramid.

The 49ers (8-8, 5-8 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) got off to a terrific start against Hawaii (13-3, 10-2 MPSF) in the first set, taking a 10-5 lead with back-to-back blocks from junior middle blocker Taylor Gregory and junior opposite hitter John La Rusch. Hawaii regained the lead after con-secutive hitting errors from LBSU and took the set after a service error from the 49ers.

The 49ers took the second set from the War-riors by out-blocking them 11.5 to 6.5. Sophomore middle blocker Bryce Yould totaled six block as-sist in set two and eight on the night while averag-ing a .143 hitting percentage for the match. Yould battled through back and foot injuries during the weekend’s matches.

“I could have done better,” Yould said. “I think everyone has something they can look back on and clean up. The team is trying to put together our best match out there and hopefully get a win.”

In the second and third sets, head coach Alan Knipe changed up the offense, taking out sopho-more setter Curtis Stallings and putting in sopho-more back-up setter Matt Butler. Knipe said both setters were working hard during practice and get-ting in equal reps.

“We weren’t really clicking offensively the way we wanted to,” Knipe said. “You can change the setter and get a different feel on the court. I thought Matt did a good job.”

The 49ers put up a big front at the net, but failed to overcome the explosive swing of Hawaii senior middle blocker Taylor Averill. Averill ended the night with 14 total kills on 22 swings, leading him to a .545 hitting percentage.

Saturday night, an abdomen injury kept junior outside hitter Cody Martin out of the starting lineup and senior libero Ryan Windisch slowed up after running into the bleachers at the end of the second set.

“Ryan ran into an immovable object and the bleachers won,” Knipe said. “I’m not really sure what is going on but we will have to wait and see. With [Martin], we can’t afford to lose him for the rest of the year so we might have to go the short end without him.”

Hawaii head coach Charlie Wade said playing difficult teams early in the season has helped his team prepare to face off against a talented 49er roster.

“Every night is so competitive in the league,” Wade said “We’re very much in tune with the fact that you have to play well and play at a high level to win.”

The 49ers will face a pair of top-10 teams this week at No. 8 UC Santa Barbara Tuesday night and No. 9 UCLA Thursday night. Both matches are ex-pected to start at 7 p.m.

Men’s BasketBall

The Long Beach State women’s basketball team split a pair of week-end conference games with a 47-46 on Thursday loss to Hawaii and 69-62 win on Sunday at Cal State Fullerton.

With 33 seconds left against Ha-waii (20-7, 12-2), senior guard Hallie Meneses slashed into the paint for two of her 19 points, cutting the 49ers’ (20-7, 7-6) deficit to one. However, the 49ers’ decision to not foul on the en-suing Hawaii possession allowed the Rainbow Wahine to drain the clock.

“To be honest, I thought [Hawaii] was rattled,” LBSU head coach Jody Wynn said. “In retrospect, I proba-bly should have fouled and sent them to the line.”

With two seconds left to play, Meneses only made it past half court before losing the handle on the ball as the clock expired.

“I’m proud of our effort,” Wynn said. “It shows how much heart our team has. We all battled. We were undersized and playing five guards

out there. Then [Anna Kim] goes down and we lose Anna for the whole second half. It’s tough, but I’m proud of their heart.”

On offense, team-captain Men-eses led the way with 50 percent shooting from the field and 60 per-cent from beyond the arc. She said usually she tries to share the ball, but decided to take initiative in the loss against Hawaii.

The 49ers led for more than 13 minutes in the second half, but Ha-waii managed to overcome the 49ers by outrebounding LBSU 44-27, which created extra offensive posses-sions for the Rainbow Wahine.

“I would say fatigue hit us in the second half, because in the first half we were good and had legs,” senior guard Alex Sanchez said. “Our legs played a factor in our shooting.”

With its size and depth, the Rain-bow Wahine pounded the 49ers hard inside for 30 points in the paint.

“It showed Hawaii is bigger and tougher,” Sanchez said. “But our strategy was taking away more of the inside than the outside.”

LBSU had one of its best three-point shooting and defensive perfor-mances of the season, shooting seven of ten from deep while holding Ha-waii without a three-pointer on nine attempts.

“Hallie and Alex basically said ‘get on my back,’” Wynn said. “They’re seniors and they’re going to fight until the end. [Senior guard Lauren] Spargo battled too, but sometimes you can’t control if the ball goes in.”

The 49ers bounced back in their second game of the weekend at Cal State Fullerton (10-17, 4-10), de-feating the Titans 69-62 on Feb. 28.

Three players scored in double figures for LBSU: Spargo (17), Men-eses (16) and freshman guard Cecily Wilson, who had the best career of her game with 12 points on five of six shooting.

CSUF head coach Daren Park told the Daily Titan the 49ers’ te-nacity was the difference.

“Kids that are role players for them stepped up today and wanted to win a game,” Park said. “I can’t tell you how many three’s they made with two seconds left on the shot clock.”

The 49ers will play their final road game of the season at Cal State Northridge Thursday night at 7 p.m.

Men’s volleyball continues to dig a deeper hole for itself in conference play after consecutive weekend losses.

By Kayce ContatoreContributing Writer

Michael ares | Daily 49er

Long Beach State guard Mike Caffey drives past Cal State Fullerton center Kennedy Esume dur-ing the rivalry matchup on Saturday in the Walter Pyramid. LBSU’s Caffey, Travis Hammonds and David Samuels each scored double digits to put The Beach over the Titans 70-40.

The 49ers overcame a last minute loss to Hawaii with a win at Fullerton to end three-game skid.

The Long Beach State men’s bas-ketball team snapped its five-game losing streak with a 70-47 win over Cal State Fullerton Saturday inside the Walter Pyramid.

The 49ers (14-16, 8-6) dispatched the last-place Titans (9-20, 1-13) be-hind sophomore guard Travis Ham-monds, senior point guard Mike Caffey and senior forward David Samuels, who had another double-double with 12 points and 10 boards.

“I thought offensively we really made a commitment a concerted ef-fort to make plays for others,” head coach Dan Monson said.

Hammonds had his best game of the season in his first shot at the start-ing lineup this year. He had a game-high 16 points on six of 11 shooting, including two three-pointers. Ham-monds also picked up four rebounds.

“It felt good,” Hammonds said. “Like coach said earlier, it was some-thing that he expects out of me. It’s good timing heading into March. You have to play your best basketball around this time. It felt good because I know I should be [starting].”

Monson said the way Hammonds played against Fullerton and in the Feb. 26 78-59 loss to Hawaii was the

way he and the rest of the coaching staff expected him to play all season.

“In the offseason we projected, as we sat around as a staff, Travis was always one of our top two or three players,” Monson said. “With cir-cumstances in the offseason and the preseason, we’re just getting the Tra-vis Hammonds right now that we ex-pected all year. The good thing is it’s not too late. Hopefully he can give us what we need in March.”

The 49ers had one of their best offensive performances of the sea-son, shooting above 50 percent for much of the game until the final the few minutes where the offense eased up. Monson said he felt the

team easily could’ve scored at least 80 points.

“We lost a lot of offensive swagger [during the losing streak],” Mon-son said. “Today was a great step in getting that team swagger back. We could’ve had whatever we needed today. We had a lot of guys in a flow, and their teammates got them in that flow.”

One of the guys who was in a flow all night was Caffey, who scored 13 points and dished out four assists. Caffey said finally ending the losing-streak was a major relief for him and the team.

“In my four years, I’ve never lost this many conference games in a

row,” Caffey said. “It was kind of nag-ging and got to me mentally. But it’s a big relief to get the win and move forward heading into March.”

Monson said the losing-streak was all he thought about.

“I’m not going to lie,” Monson said. “You can sit there and rational-ize in your head that’s it’s not a big deal, it’s only a game. You don’t have cancer. You’re healthy, you have great kids and a great wife, all that. You’re still miserable every second of every day until you [win].”

The 49ers will host Cal State Northridge on Thursday in the Wal-ter Pyramid for their final home game of the season.

49ers swept away

Back in the win

By William HernandezAssistant Sports Editor

BoBBy yagake | Daily 49er

Coming off a three-game, losing streak, Long Beach State ends its slump with a 69-62 win over Cal State Fullerton in the Walter Pyramid on Saturday.

Men’s VolleyBall

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WoMen’s BasketBall

The 49ers took out their frustration against last-place Fullerton in a 23-point blowout.

By Oscar TerrOnesSports Editor

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