Thursday, February 26, 2009

Beach hosts UCI tonight, at Northridge Saturday afternoon

In the midst of a tight race for the Big West regular season crown LBSU plays their final home game of the season tonight against the Anteaters of UC Irvine.

After Northridge's win over UCSB last night they hold a one half game lead at 9-4. It's too bad I missed that one. 49 turnovers and 47 fouls, yikes. LBSU is 8-4.

In other Big West action last night Long Beach got a big boost when Pacific beat UC Davis. Although Pacific is now 8-6 in conference - or just a game behind The Beach - LBSU holds the tiebreakers over the Tigers since they beat them twice.

Davis on the other hand, who beat Long Beach at the Pyramid last month, falls to 7-7 or two games out with just four to go.

Fullerton also sits at 7-7. The most dangerous team lurking behind The Beach is UC Riverside. At 6-6 the Highlanders are two games back but beat the 'Niners twice so they would hold any tiebreaker if it came to that.

With a win tonight, Saturday's game against Northridge would once again be for first place. A 10-4 record would guarantee LBSU a top-3 finish in the regular season - but a top-2 finish is necessary for a bye into the semifinals for next month's conference tournament.

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