Dirtbag Baseball

LBSU takes on Stanford this evening for the first of three non-conference games with the Cardinal.
I chatted with Stanford's hall of fame coach Wednesday morning and here's what transpired.
This will be an extremely meaningful series for me as I grew up in Palo Alto just a few minutes from Stanford's campus and my love for baseball can really be traced back to going to Cardinal games as a kid....

It's better to be average than bad. But it sure would be nice to be better than simply mediocre.
Such is the conundrum of Long Beach State's two biggest men's teams.
The basketball team followed up a 15-15 campaign in 2008-2009 with a 17-16 season in 2009-2010....

After being shutout and beatdown Friday night the Dirtbags (7-7) rallied to take their three-game series with the 21st-ranked Shockers of Wichita State (10-3) by winning the next two contests and earn some much-needed confidence.
In the series finale sophomore transfer Joey Terdoslavich led the way by going 3-for-4 and driving in three runs. Devin Lohman added a couple of hits and the pitching of Branden Pinder enabled the Dirtbags to record the 7-3 victory....

Another Pac-10 team was in the third base dugout and the tough times continued. The Huskies took two of three from Long Beach dropping the Boys of Blair to 4-6 and just 1-5 at home against Pac-10 foes so far this season.
In the rubber game Sunday Long Beach took an early 2-0 lead but Andrew Kittredge, Washington's starter and weekend warrior, settled in and held on for a 6-4 win....