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Wilson senior pitcher Chase deJong has won some memo-rable titles, considering he hasn’t graduated high school yet. in 2008, deJong was the ace pitcher for the Long Beach poNY team that beat taiwan for a World Championship. Last summer, he was the ace pitcher on a Wilson team that won an American Le-gion State championship. on Sunday, deJong added to his international trophy case, winning a gold medal with the 18U National team at the Cop-ABE 18U/AAA pan American Championships in Cartagena, Columbia.

“it’s the most amazing feeling in the world,” deJong said on Monday evening, after returning to Long Beach from Columbia, “to stand there with your gold medal on, belting out the words to the national anthem as loud as you can, because you’ve earned that right.” deJong said he was incredibly grateful not just to have won the gold, but to be returning home to his own house, and his own bed. in September, we told you about catcher Chris Betts win-ning gold with the 14U National team in Venezuela, which means Wilson will enter the 2012 spring season with a pair of international gold medalists on its roster, a rare

feat for a prep program. the United States’ sweep through the tournament was the stuff of legends, as they went 9-0, and won by fewer than four runs just once. the gold medal game was against Canada, with the US winning 12-2 in eight innings to complete their tournament sweep. deJong pitched in two of the nine games (the team traveled with 10 pitchers), going 1-0 and totaling six innings, in which he gave up just two hits, while strik-ing out six. His pan-Am Games ErA was 1.50. deJong’s lone start came against Argentina, who the US

DeJong Adds To Trophy Case

—Photo courtesy DeJong familyWINNING COLORS. Wilson senior Chase DeJong drapes him-self in the American flag after winning a gold medal in Columbia.

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By Ryan ZumMallenStAff WritEr

Across the country this morning, people everywhere will pour themselves a cup of coffee and sit down to their computers. Students, parents, coaches will find their favorite social networking site and log in. What they do next — the information, photos and videos they view and share — could dictate the next four years of a col-lege program. in extreme cases, it could lead to stardom. No, this isn’t facebook. it’s not even the more business-minded Linkedin. instead, it’s Babafoo.com, or Hudl.com, or a host of other sites that help prep student-ath-letes generate the kind of publicity needed to attract scholarship offers from college scouts (Long Beach poly even has its own site specifically geared toward recruiters at LongBeachpolyfootball.com). And they’re changing the face of recruiting as we know it. the internet — and its subsequent shoot-offs such as apps, mobile email and social networking — has slithered its way into every facet of our lives over the last 10 years. those spiffy new technologies might as well do some good while they’re at it, and increasing the visibility of prep athletes may be just one of the ways that technology can change modern society for the better. “With us, kids are able to post their full academic and athletic portfolios,” says John Karavas, co-founder of Babafoo.com, which recently launched. the site also allows players to post status updates. “By adding in the social media aspect … we feel you can get a bigger picture of what the kid is like.” in the olden days — say, 2005 — high

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—Gazette photo by John FajardoSMACK DOWN. Long Beach State senior Caitlin Ledoux goes up high for one of her many highlights during a rare 49ers loss against Oregon State earlier this year. It was the last game before she sat for a five-game stretch with an injury.


Caitlin Ledoux’s career for the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team has been sterling. the senior captain has started every match she’s been healthy for since her first match as a freshman, and has stamped her name clearly in the Long Beach State record books. the senior has been driven since her very first match in the Walter pyramid, striving to fulfill all of her considerable athletic po-tential. funny word, potential. the way her head coach used it after the 49ers were swept by Stanford in the sec-ond round of the NCAA tournament her

freshman year has helped shape Ledoux’s drive to win. “He said he hated that word,” she recalls. “it means you didn’t win — for the last few years, we’ve been that team. the one with all the potential.” “oh, it’s a horrible word,” coach Brian Gimmillaro says, his opinion unchanged. “Who would want to have potential?” there’s no doubt that, in terms of indi-vidual performance, Ledoux has left no bit of potential unfulfilled. She’s moved into the school’s top 10 all-time list for both kills and digs, and was a four-time first team All-Big West player. only two other players in school history have done that, and they were both pretty

good in their own right: Alexis Crimes and Misty May. in her career in the pyramid, she’s to-taled more than 1,500 kills and 1,000 digs, one of just three players to reach that mile-stone. that last accomplishment highlights the skill that made her a four-year starter: her versatility. from her first match as a freshman, where she had 12 kills and 13 digs, Ledoux has been a box score-stuffer, notching kills, aces, blocks and digs as though she were a specialist at each. “She was a very good all-around player, from the first day,” Gimmillaro says. that’s why Gimmillaro gave her so much playing time from the day the phelan,

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went on to beat 16-2. DeJong pitched the first five innings of the game, allowing one hit and one earned run, dealing with 18 batters in 84 pitches. The Americans had the game firmly in hand with a 6-1 lead when he left the mound, giving him the decision. Then, in the third-to-last game of the tournament, he put in an inning of relief work against Pan-ama, giving up one hit but strik-ing out two of the four batters he faced to close out a 9-0 shutout for the US. DeJong was part of a pitching staff that allowed just eight runs in nine games, while the U.S. bats put up 88 runs, and the de-fense behind the mound commit-ted just two errors. But of course, it wasn’t just business when a team full of talented players and

their families goes abroad — es-pecially because the team cel-ebrated Thanksgiving while in Columbia. While most families watched NFL football on TV before sit-ting down to their dinner, the 18U National Team dispatched Puerto Rico 8-2 before sitting down to their supper. “They had a Thanksgiving din-ner with turkey for us at a Hilton (near where we were staying),” recalled DeJong, whose family normally hosts relatives at their house for dinner. No doubt it wasn’t difficult for those gathered to think up a list of what to be thankful for, as a roster full of promising careers earned a sterling honor. Long Beach’s many baseball fans, too, are likely thankful for some dia-mond action in November — the only difficult thing may be wait-ing another two months for the high school season to start.

school athletes had to hope that word of mouth would reach scouts that, in reality, may never come. Maybe a small school would catch a whiff of talent and come running, or maybe a big school would come looking at an-other player and find a roster spot for their teammate. It was a game of maybe, maybe not that left the player powerless. Not anymore. These days, recruiting websites offer the services that were pre-viously only available to top-tier high school athletes — highlight reels, access to college scouts and a chance to show your stuff to anyone willing to take the time to watch. At their best, these sites can connect overlooked athletes to colleges holding the keys to their future. Of course, the opportunity the

Internet represents does not begin or end with these recruiting sites. Free resources like YouTube and Twitter are effective, too. Users can produce and publish high-light videos, then solicit coaches or scouts online. They won’t con-tact you if they can’t find you. If you’re a football player at Long Beach Poly or a water polo player at Wilson, there’s not much to worry about: The scouts will come to you. But if you excel in golf at Cabrillo or volleyball at Millikan, your achievements can fly under the radar. This is where such resources can best be used. “The more exposure, the bet-ter,” says Long Beach Poly head football coach, Raul Lara. It’s no secret that Poly is ef-fective at getting their players recruited, in any sport. But Lara says that recruiting sites are just more tools that can help increase a player’s profile (although he does like to check what they’re posting before it goes live, just in case). “The biggest thing is that they make it much more competitive out there,” he says. “Other kids are being recognized from other schools that might not get the at-tention we do.” But no matter your school, sport or visibility, there’s one thing that will make all the difference. When you do catch the eye of a coach, when you do convince a scout to glance at your tape, what will he see? What will she take away? The idea of a highlight tape is exciting, but coaches will instant-

ly see past the special effects and determine whether or not you are worth their time — let alone one of their precious scholarships. That isn’t to say that you should ignore the opportunity. It’s true that college assistants are con-stantly scouring the web for new talent, and the public forum of the Internet may be just as valu-able — probably more so — for schools as it is for athletes. A small school in Montana or Tennessee may not make a bowl game, but they too offer lucra-tive opportunities that will help an athlete through college and beyond. Scouting travel budgets continue to shrink in this tough economy and the Internet can bridge the gap between being overlooked and being offered an official visit. “A lot of kids go on there ex-pecting to automatically get re-cruited or a scholarship,” Karavas says. “It’s a tool to help you promote yourself, but coaches don’t go on there looking for their next starting point guard. If they hear about a player, then they’ll want to go on the site and learn more about them.” If your play speaks volumes, you can now make the book more widely available. We live in a time where the next “Huck Finn” can be self-published, the next “Good Will Hunting” could de-but on YouTube. An opportunity for the entrepreneurs among us is fully ingrained into the world of prep recruiting, and it’s about time.

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Calif., native walked into the Pyramid. The frustration for Ledoux (and, one expects, Gimmillaro), is that while her personal poten-tial has been well-realized, the potential of the 49ers teams of the last three years most certainly have not. The 49ers suffered that second-round sweep Ledoux’s freshman year, and then ignominious first-round exits the last two seasons, against UCLA and the University of San Diego. Both of those years, Ledoux played pretty well (13 kills and 7 digs last year, 8 kills and 11 digs as the team’s number two offensive option in 2009), but at this point in her career, the senior wants more than solid individual accomplishments. “Friday could be my last match,” she says. That match will come against the Toreros, who knocked them out last season. Should Ledoux lead her team to victory, they would likely play UCLA in the

second round, giving the 49ers a chance to settle even more scores, and advance out of the first week-end of NCAA play for the first time since 2001. There’s no reason to think it couldn’t happen — the 49ers are on a tear, winning 15 straight matches to close the season out. That followed a rough stretch where they lost three of six matches, with Ledoux playing injured, and then missing time. Since her return, they’ve had an unblemished record. The burden of leadership this weekend certainly will fall to Ledoux and her fellow senior captain, libero Lauren Minkel. That’s because, with the excep-tion of junior Janisa Johnson, just about every other player who sees floor time is a freshman or a sophomore, with less NCAA ex-perience under their belts. In fact, Gimmillaro says one of the most impressive things about Ledoux has been her ability to help the team navigate that gen-erational gap without too much strife. Last year, as the newcomers were getting a lot of floor time,

some members of the team said that it felt like there was a divi-sion between the upper class and the youngest 49ers. This year, that division has been nonexis-tent, and it’s showed on the floor. Gimmillaro says that Ledoux’s senior leadership is responsible for that cohesion in a big way. A lot of that ability to span classes has to do with the fact that Ledoux was herself a freshman who understood the anxiety of wanting to win at all costs, with-out an appreciation for the years of work the upperclassmen had put in. “I think this is a special team,” Ledoux says. “I remember being a freshman, looking up to the se-niors on my team, and the respect I had for them — it’s nice to be that person now.” Gimmillaro isn’t surprised that Ledoux has added leadership to her already massive skill-set, or that she’s been so successful at helping the team’s chemistry. “She’s a very giving, caring person,” he says of his team cap-tain. Just don’t say she’s got poten-tial.

The Long Beach-based Savala Painters men’s senior softball team had a wonderful run earlier that ended in the national cham-pionship game at the ASA Men’s Senior Fast Pitch National Tour-nament. The team, coached by lo-cal softball legend Al Savala (a member of Long Beach’s Base-ball and Softball Hall of Fame), lost their second game of the tournament and had to claw their way up from the loser’s bracket. But four straight wins put them in the final game of the tourna-ment, held in Salem, Ore., where they came up just short against

Airtronics, 9-4, for second. “In two of those games, we came back in the last inning,” Savala said. “In one, a guy who hadn’t done anything for us in the first four games hit an inside-the-park home run.” Savala’s Painters teams have won seven national champion-ships, and taken runner-up twice now. Fred Kronenburger, Curt Culver, Steve Korsa and Tom Biko were all named to the All-Tournament team. Savala said he plans to keep coaching as long as he is able, which is good news for sports fans.

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By Chris Ericksen The sailboat-racing calendar slows down after Thanksgiving, but there is plenty of other com-petition on the water this week-end. The Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool fi nally reopened after a long period of down time after the sum-mer, and the swim-meet schedule kicked right off. The weekend be-fore Thanksgiving, the Plaza Pool hosted an intercollegiate swim meet, the Arena Invitational. This meet, hosted by UC San Diego, was the fi rst major event since the CIF-SS championships before Memorial Day.

The fi rst senior swimming event of the season is on for this weekend, as the Long Beach Grunions again play host to the 2011 SPMS Short Course Meters Championships. There’s a lot of information in that name, but it breaks down like this: A “meters championship” is one where the swimmers compete at metric dis-tances rather than yards; a “short course” is one where the laps are

25 meters (or 25 yards) long rath-er than 50 meters (or yards); and SPMS stands for Southern Pacifi c Masters Swimming, the regional governing body for the sport of masters’ swimming. Masters swimming is the part of the sport in which adults com-pete in an other-than-collegiate setting. Events are broken down by age and gender. Swimmers compete against their own gender and within fi ve-year age bands. They swim all the regular Olym-pic swimming events — but-terfl y, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, relays, the whole thing —but sometimes at shorter dis-tances. It is serious competition, to be sure, but masters swimming also fosters swimming as a life-long fi tness program, and begin-ners are as welcome as former high-school, collegiate or inter-national competitors. According to the website, the Long Beach Grunions, the local team that is hosting the meet under the aus-pices of the SPMS, provide “a supportive swim environment with helpful coaches” and “dif-ferent levels of workouts for swimmers of all skill levels, from beginner to advanced.” The Grunions also calls itself “a totally cool, really fun, high energy swim team and social club for gays, lesbians and their friends.” Not at all limited in its membership to gay and lesbian swimmers, the team is open and welcoming to everyone, offering not only a structure for swim-ming instruction and swimming competition, but an opportunity for social contact among all the members. This meet will start on Friday, Dec. 2, and run through Sunday, Dec. 4. Warm-ups begin at 8 a.m. each morning and competition starts at 9 a.m. Medals for the top three places in individual events will be awarded (with ribbons for places four through six) and the top team in each relay event (ribbons for second and third). Information on the meet is best found at www.lbgrunions.org, or by calling the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool at 570-1806.

Rowing Regatta The Long Beach Rowing As-sociation will host the big event on its calendar this weekend as it hosts the 44th Annual Bill Lock-yer Christmas Regatta on Sunday, Dec. 4. When I say “ big event,” I mean it — there is a huge range of races, for both men and women (and mixed teams) and from juniors to masters in individual sculls, duals, quads, eights and everything in between. The sched-ule calls for the fi rst heats, men’s lightweight singles, to head out at 7 a.m. Sunday morning. The last events, mixed quads, will fi n-ish after 3 p.m. And it all will be in the historic Marine Stadium, home of the 1932 Olympic row-ing events, which affords great spectating opportunities. Details can be found at www.longbeachrowing.org, or by call-ing the LBRA at 438-3352.

Swim Team Meets At Plaza PoolO N T H E W E B~ As you read in the NCAA Tournament preview, the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team is headed to UCLA for a record 25th appear-ance in the postseason. They will play San Diego on Friday at 5:30 p.m., but before that go to GazettesSports.com to read about and watch the Senior Night highlight video from last Saturday night in the Walter Pyra-mid. It was the fi nal tune-up for the 49ers, and could be a preview of what to watch for on Friday.~ Make sure you come to GazettesSports.com Thursday at 12:00 p.m. to listen to SportsNight LIVE on the KBeach Global Radio airwaves. SportsNight is the one and only sports talk show in Long Beach where we will have previews of the huge Long Beach State games this week-end and a mailbag full of your questions, which you can leave in our comment section, or send to fi [email protected].~ The fantastic fall season may be coming to a close, but you can relive all of the games right now on our YouTube Channel under Gazettes-Sports. There, you can see all of the football, soccer, volleyball and water polo highlights from these last few exhilarating months that have produced historic results and championships.

~ As you read in the NCAA Tournament preview, the Long Beach State


—Gazette photo by John FajardoVICTORY DANCE. The 49ers celebrate game point during their four-set victory over New Mexico to close the regular season. The win was the team’s 15th consecutive victory, their longest streak in a decade.

—Gazette photo by John FajardoHUDDLE TOGETHER. The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team huddles around their coach, Brian Gimmillaro, before the New Mexico match.


A charge went through the room when ESpNU’s televised NCAA women’s volleyball bracket release showed the Long Beach State team their fate. the 49ers’ gathering at head coach Brian Gimmillaro’s Long Beach home represented their national-record 25th consecutive appearance in the NCAA post-season. the whole run has occurred under Gimmillaro, and its weight was highlighted in two ways, looking around the room as the ESpNU announcers read off dif-ferent matchups. When the streak began, none of the current 49ers were alive. When the network televising the release first began broadcasting, the streak was already 18 years old. But for all that long-past history, it was two very recent sto-ries that had everyone talking about the bracket draw. Long Beach State (23-6) will play their first match at 5:30 p.m. on Friday at UCLA’s Wooden Cen-ter, against the University of San

diego (27-4) — the team that knocked them out of the first round of the NCAA tourna-ment last season. if the 49ers can beat the toreros (no mean feat), their likely second-round match, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, would be against UCLA (24-6) — the team that knocked them out of the first round of the tourney in 2009. “i’m really excited for this bracket,” senior captain Caitlin Ledoux told her teammates. “We have a history with these teams.” “We have to play with a huge chip on our shoulders,” said sophomore Haleigh Hampton, a sentiment echoed by many of the 49ers who piped up and spoke to the rest of the team. “Let’s play inspired.” the No. 23-ranked 49ers will need an inspired effort to pull a minor upset against the No. 20 toreros on Friday, and then what would be considered a less-minor upset of the No. 4 Bruins. the sub-regional at UCLA this Fri-day is the only one in the nation to feature three ranked teams, meaning that the 49ers are once again in the toughest sub-re-

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gional in the country, a storyline that’s seemed constant over the last decade. The fourth team to play at UCLA on Friday is the Univer-sity of Maryland, Eastern Shore, who will face the Bruins follow-ing the conclusion of the Long Beach State/USD match. Local fans may want to stay around to see a familiar face, as Poly’s Sa Iosia (a key offensive weapon on the Jackrabbits’ CIF title team last year) is UMES’ top player. Should the 49ers pull off victo-ries on Friday and Saturday, they would advance to the Lexington regional, where the expected competition would be four-time defending NCAA champion Penn State and the bracket’s top seed, Texas. But of course, Gimmillaro has

been to too many tournaments to let his team think too far ahead. “All you have is Friday,” he said. “All you have is San Diego — and none of you have beaten them yet.” After the group dispersed, he tried to explain his team’s recent struggles against the Toreros, who beat the 49ers twice last season. “They’re very comfortable against us,” he said. “And they play extremely hard. I’ve seen film, and they’re more comfort-able against us than they are other teams, and they play harder against us than they do against other teams.”

At the top of the 49ers’ to-do list for the four days of practice they have between Sunday and Friday is coming up with ways of making the Toreros less comfort-able. With a front line of Hampton, Alma Serna, Bre Mackie and Ledoux, the 49ers have a more imposing block than they did last year, which could go a long way towards flipping the script on USD. After all, there’s history be-tween the 49ers and the Toreros, and the Bruins. But Long Beach State doesn’t want that history re-peating itself.


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Last Friday night at Vets Stadi-um, the poly Jackrabbits’ season came to a surprising end against a buzz saw Santa Margarita team in the CiF pac-5 quarterfinals, as the Eagles used a powerful offensive line to wear poly down, 49-16. “i can say that we made mis-takes,” said poly coach raul Lara.

“But we made mistakes because of the way they executed against us.” the loss makes this the first time the Jackrabbits have failed to advance to the CiF Semifinals for three consecutive years since the early ’90s, a troubling trend, especially as the gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” of high school athletics continues to wid-

en. true, not all the semifinalists are private schools this year, but all four (Santa Margarita, Mission Viejo, San Clemente and tesoro) are in South orange County, where budgets are much higher. Lara, meanwhile, famously works his “day job” on the mid-night shift as a probation officer. For now, we know that the Jackrabbits’ season ended much

earlier than expected of the CiF’s three-seed, although it wasn’t nearly as bad as the final score indicates. it was 21-16 with a few minutes left in the fourth quarter, but the Eagles broke through after that, following touchdowns with interceptions with touchdowns that made the score look less competitive than the game actu-ally was. in fact, a minute and a half into

the game, it looked like it might be another poly blowout, like the first-round win over Newport Harbor. QB Nick pope tossed a screen to Manusamoa Lu’uga on the first play of the game that went for 11 yards, and on the next snap pope handed it off to Gerard Wicks, who bounced it left for a 46-yard score, which made it 6-0.

Upsetting End To Jackrabbits’ Football Season

—Gazette photo by Kevin OulesTHAT’S GOTTA HURT! Poly linebacker Salamo Fiso stops Santa Margarita quarterback Johnny Stanton in the fourth quarter.



—Gazette photo by Kevin OulesREACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE. Poly linebacker Matt Rowe pulls down Santa Margarita quarterback Johnny Stanton for a sack Friday during Poly’s playoff loss at Veterans Stadium.

—Gazette photo by Kevin OulesMOTIVATING. Poly High School football coach Raul Lara tries to fire up his team during its CIF Pac-5 playoff game.

The matchup was considered to be Poly’s speed against Santa Margarita’s strength, and it was Poly who sprinted out to start. But the Eagles answered on their next drive, which took six minutes to Poly’s 90 seconds, as they drove 72 yards in nine plays, ending on a Johnny Stanton TD run. The next Eagles drive went deep into Poly territory, but seemed to stop when Santa Mar-garita didn’t convert on a fourth-and-seven. But the officials threw a defensive holding flag on a Poly sack of Stanton that gave the Eagles a first and goal on the seven. Stanton helicoptered his way across the goal line, Elway-style, to make it 14-6 Eagles. Neither team got any traction after that until late in the first half, when Pope was picked off by Conner O’Brien, who ran it back to the Poly 19. Two plays later, it was (who else?) Stan-ton on an 18-yard run. In just 36

seconds, Poly moved the ball 48 yards to set up a 35-yard Hayden Hunt field goal that cut the lead to 21-9. The Eagles opened the second half with a six-minute drive, but Poly held them at the 29 to force a turnover on downs. After that, it was another fast strike, with a 37-yard catch by Wicks and then a 14-yard touchdown run by him that cut it to 21-16. But it was all Eagles from then on, as they closed with four un-answered touchdowns. The first came on a five-minute drive that ended with Stanton’s fourth score of the night. After Poly’s next drive stalled at midfield, Ryan Wolpin began Santa Margarita’s next drive with a 60-yard TD sprint that effectively ended the game. It was the result of that punishing offensive front, and missed opportunities for Poly. “It wasn’t even their scheme,” said Poly defensive coordina-tor Jeff Turley. “We had some key missed tackles. On three of (Stanton’s) TDs, we had the guy tackled.”


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By Tyler HendricksonStaff Writer

Long Beach State fans got a long look at their 49ers volley-ball team this past week, the final time in Walter Pyramid this year. Looking to gear up for the NCaa tournament, the ‘Niners kept things moving in the right direc-tion in defeating LMU, Central Michigan and New Mexico, giv-ing them 15 consecutive victories. On Senior Night against New Mexico, Long Beach fans said goodbye to four players: Jocelyn Neely, Michelle Osunbor, Lauren Minkel and Caitlin Ledoux. in fit-ting fashion, Ledoux ended the four-set match with a kill, sending the fans home happy, including an enthusiastic Clipper Darrell who was in attendance to sup-port his 49ers. the evening was

especially important for Ledoux because she bounced back from some forgettable performances to post a team-high 16 kills while adding 12 digs for her 37th career double-double. a big story looking forward was the play of Janisa Johnson, who earned Big West Player of the Week for her contributions. She had 14 kills (no errors), eight digs and five blocks against Cen-tral Michigan, and also added 13 kills and 16 digs against New Mexico. Johnson spent a lot of time playing at the net after be-ing limited to back-row duty for the past several weeks. it will be interesting to see where JJ will be slotted into the lineup once the tournament starts, but at the very least she will add some versatility to the 49er lineup.

for the 25th straight season, it’s tourney time for Long Beach State and they will head to UCLa for a regional hosted by the ninth-seeded Bruins. in round one, the 49ers will play a tough San Diego team, ranked No. 20 in the coun-try. that match is set for 5:30 p.m. friday in the Wooden Cen-ter. Should the ‘Niners win, round two would be at 7 p.m. Saturday against either UCLa or Maryland eastern Shore.Women’s Soccer it’s natural instinct to feel dis-appointed after a season-ending loss, but if anyone could be im-mune to that emotion, it should be this group of 49ers. they made history on an individual level, and they did things as a team that were utterly unprecedented for Long Beach State soccer. So after traveling to Duke and

losing 2-0 against a Blue Devil buzz saw, the ‘Niners return home with a lot to be ecstatic about as their season ends with the noble distinction of being one of the fi-nal eight teams in america. Going into this season, expec-tations were high for the program, but nobody could have seen this run coming. a program that had never scored a goal in the NCaa tournament in two previous ap-pearances went on to win three

tournament games. furthermore, they advanced further than any Big West team had ever gone, while obliterating the previous record for wins in a season with 18. they accomplished that feat by setting new school records for goals, assists, and points in a sea-son. the phenomenal senior class will leave Long Beach in much better shape than when they found it, as the program contin-

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—Gazette photo by Matt GuardabascioBREAKAWAY. Nadia Link, 12, takes the ball down the pitch against Pepperdine in the first round of the NCAA tournament.


ues to build under head coach Mauricio Ingrassia. Next sea-son will see the return of Nadia Link, who is fresh off tying the school record for goals in a sea-son, and now will set her sights on the career record of 33, need-ing just nine goals to equal that mark. Long Beach State is now a budding West Coast power in this emerging sport, and it will be nothing short of compelling to see what they can achieve in years to come.Men’s Basketball This time of year has all NCAA men’s basketball coaches looking for their team’s weakness. For Long Beach State’s Dan Monson, these last three games have fea-tured at least two for the 49ers: turnovers and closing out games. First was the “get right” home win over Boise State, 72-62, last Wednesday after the bitter defeat at the hands of San Diego State. The 49ers led by double dig-its most of the night while se-nior forward T.J. Robinson was breaking the record for most career rebounds in Long Beach State history with 13 boards and a game-high 18 points. However, the 49ers committed 23 turnovers and allowed the Broncos to go on two 11-0 runs to keep the result in question until the final min-utes. Second was the close contest at Montana on Saturday that saw Long Beach State build a double digit lead in the first half, and

hold an eight-point lead in the second half. However, the Grizzlies got back into the game behind guard Derek Selvig (14 points) and 51% shooting from the field to retake the lead. The 49ers rallied from a seven-point deficit to take a 68-66 lead on a pair of free throws by senior Casper Ware. But with the game on the line, Ware missed two free throws, senior Edis Der-visevic missed two free throws, and a costly turnover in the paint sparked a 7-0 run over a 58-sec-ond span that gave Montana the lead they would not relinquish. Lastly was the Tuesday night loss at No. 6 Louisville in which the Cardinals jumped out to an early 16-point lead. The 49ers fought back behind 17 points from senior Larry Anderson and good play from freshman Mike Caffey, but down five with six to play, the 49ers turned the ball over and allowed a wide open three pointer. And then down seven with less than two minutes to play, Caffey and Anderson were on a fast break, only to turn the ball over for the 21st time on the night. Long Beach State would not score again, and fall 79-66. “We are just not tough enough on the road right now,” Monson said after the Montana game. “We just break down too easily and let teams hang around.” The 49ers (3-3) return home to the Walter Pyramid on Friday to face BYU-Hawaii.Sports Editor JJ Fiddler contributed to this report..

By Tyler HendricksonSTAFF WRITER

After extending their season with an upset win in the first round of the playoffs, the Vikings’ men’s soccer team couldn’t pull the rabbit twice, falling 2-0 to No. 4 seed Oxnard College last week. Long Beach made it to round two following a 3-2 win over East LA, which was fueled by a pair of goals from freshman Tim Harty. The Vikings allowed a pair of goals yet again, but couldn’t mount an attack against Oxnard as the Condors controlled most of the possession. After allowing a goal just five minutes in, the Vi-kings never got firm footing, and ultimately gave up a late insur-ance goal that put an end to their season. Even with the loss, the Vikings made it further than expected, and a team that finished with a pain-fully average record (8-8-6, 4-6-4) should be optimistic about next season. The Vikings have just four sophomores on their roster, and will return an experienced and talented squad in 2012. Included in the returners are standouts Harty, and a strong core of for-mer Millikan High School Rams led by Robert Burgos and Andres Montes.Women’s Basketball There are good starts and then there are historically good starts. For LBCC, it has been the latter as they have raced out to a 5-0 re-cord, something that hasn’t been done since 1988. Head coach Mi-chael Anderson is at the helm in

just his second season at LBCC, but he’s got things running on all cylinders in the early season. The most recent triumph was over Cypress College, as the Vi-kings picked up a 49-40 home win. It was a low offensive output for Long Beach, who topped 60 points in each of their first four games. They were able to get the win thanks to an opportunistic de-fense that forced 40 turnovers, in-cluding 16 steals. Kala Amico led the team with five swipes, while adding six points and five assists. The scoring load was carried by Keshonda Moore and Tam-ica Cheatham, who each had a game-high 12 points. Cheatham was a big help off the bench, go-ing 5-for-9 from the field. Long Beach couldn’t get the perimeter game going — shooting 0-for-11 on threes — and had to depend on transition buckets, outscoring Cypress 24-8 in fast break points. Toynell Williams had a game-high 10 rebounds for the Vikings. LBCC will look to keep the un-beaten streak rolling as they head to the Chaffey Tournament this weekend with games set to take place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The conference schedule will get underway next Wednes-day as the Vikings travel to Pasa-dena.Men’s Basketball On the men’s side of the hard-wood, things are moving in the opposite direction as the Vikings have limped out to an 0-6 start. Though they have yet to reach the win column, the Vikings have usually stayed competitive, losing

four of their six games by four points or fewer, including a pair of one-point losses to Glendale (Arizona) and Barstow. Long Beach has been wrapped

up in tournament play thus far, losing two games in each of the Desert Tournament, Irvine Val-ley Tournament and Pasadena Tournament. The roster is loaded with local talent, featuring seven athletes representing four of the seven Moore League schools. Third-year head coach Barry

Barnes will have a lot to talk to his team about as the Vikings look to get things right before conference play starts in January. One last tournament lies ahead as Long Beach will go to the Saddle-back Tournament on Dec. 15. Be-fore that, though, the Vikings will travel to Imperial Valley on Dec. 9.


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Mauricio ingrassia hasn’t stopped moving. Not since he took over as head coach of the Long Beach State women’s soc-cer program eight years ago, not since the 2011 season started in August, and not even since his 49ers finished the most successful season in program history with a magical run through the NCAA tournament last Friday. When the team landed in Cali-fornia less than 24 hours after los-ing to duke in the Elite Eight, in-grassia got off the plane and into his car to drive to San diego for the highly regarded club soccer Surf Cup. “What we cannot do is lose our identity,” ingrassia says about where his program is headed after reaching its highest peak. “We’re the ultimate underdogs… We’re blue collar and we fight for every-thing everyday. this has all been the evolution of a program.” that evolution started in 2004, when ingrassia took over an

LBSU program that hadn’t seen a winning season since being rein-stated in 1998. “We were so young that we scheduled for success,” he says. “then when those players were juniors in 2007, we started playing tougher competition, and in 2008, we started winning

with that schedule.” With a veteran group that be-gan playing together as the 15th-ranked recruiting class in 2005, ingrassia led his team to a single-season record for wins, goals, as-sists, points and shots while qual-ifying for the school’s first trip to the NCAA tournament, where

they lost to University of San di-ego, 1-0, in the first round. in 2009, they lost a lot of those players to graduation, but they kept playing the schedule. Al-though the 49ers struggled and missed the post season, they still beat pepperdine and No. 21 Mis-souri. With that experience in tow, the 2010 49ers returned to the postseason with a Big West tournament Championship and a first round loss to Santa Clara. “that game against Santa Clara was the best game we had played up until that point,” ingrassia says of the 1-0 loss in which his team outshot the Gales 22-to-5. “At the banquet on the highlight tape, the last shot was a picture of the team after that game with ‘Unfinished Business’ under it… this season with the talent, the schedule and knowing success, we said our goal was Sweet 16 or better.” A month into this 2011 cam-paign, the 49ers looked like they were ready to take it to the next level, and it all started with a 1-0 victory at the University of San

diego. Six games and 21 goals later, the 49ers were riding a win-ning streak that had them nation-ally ranked and atop the Big West ladder. “that was our first peak,” in-grassia says. “But then came our first valley.” days before an imperative road trip to Northridge and irvine, a fa-tal shooting in Seal Beach rocked the 49ers. the night before taking on the Matadors, they were at the candlelight vigil in Seal Beach, and the next day they played with heavy hearts. An 89th minute goal lifted CSUN to a 1-0 victory, and two days later a 2-0 Anteater win had the 49ers reeling as they went from first to fourth in the confer-ence standings and lost their na-tional ranking. “After we got back from irvine we had a long team meeting,” in-grassia says. “We were down. We felt like we had to earn it all over again… i told them that we had three home games left, and that if they could win them that ‘our

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—Gazette photo by Tyler Hendrickson IT’S A CELEBRATION. Long Beach State women’s soccer team celebrates with head coach Mauricio Ingrassia after defeat-ing Cal State Northridge in the Big West Conference semifinals.


second peak will be higher than our first’.” Sure enough, behind fantastic defense led by senior goalkeeper Kaitlyn Gustaves and aggressive offense led by junior Nadia Link, the 49ers beat UC Riverside, UC Davis and Pacific by a combined score of 7-2 to secure a home Big West semifinal match with CSUN, to earn a date with UC Ir-vine in the championship game. As if actively exorcizing their demons from a few weeks past, the 49ers beat the Matadors and Anteaters to take the Big West crown and earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament at Pepper-dine in the first round. “Pepperdine hadn’t lost at home in two years,” Ingrassia says. “But we had experience on our side,” and in overtime Link put home a game-winner that tied the single-season scoring re-cord and gave Long Beach State soccer its first NCAA Tourna-ment win. “That was a defining moment because we got over the hump… That was our highest peak.” But the 49ers weren’t done, and in the second round they shut down an extremely athletic Mi-ami Hurricane team, and sopho-more Kelsey Wilson’s shot/cross earned LBSU a shot at getting past their season goal. The night before taking on San Diego in the Sweet 16, Ingrassia asked his team what “or better” meant to them, and the team re-sponded with what their head

coach calls an “epic” game. In a torrential downpour and nearly unplayable conditions, the 49ers went after the game and freshman Ashley Roese’s goal off a Torero mistake sent Long Beach State into the Elite Eight, where they fell at the hands of No. 3 Duke. Despite being tied at the half, the Blue Devils turned the pressure up in the second half and defended their home pitch. Now back home — with his playoff beard still hanging on and the recruiting trail in front of him — Ingrassia is realistic about what this record-setting season means for his program. “Blue chip recruits are still looking at four or five schools first like UCLA, North Carolina, Duke, Notre Dame… We’re not always sitting at that table … but if we can just get one of them, if we can keep developing players within the program, if I can keep my fantastic staff intact, then I think we can continue to get the results and find a new highest peak.” That all starts this week, when Ingrassia will travel to the Final Four and club showcases, be-cause a budding NCAA program doesn’t stop moving, and Ingras-sia knows that. That’s why this week George Allen Field is get-ting lights so the 49ers can pos-sibly host a first round NCAA Tournament game in the future. “Our first game under the lights will be an Alumni Game this spring,” Ingrassia says. “They laid the foundation for the run we had, and they all deserve to come and enjoy it.”


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Welcome back to By the Books, where we break down how the lo-cal teams are doing in polls both local and national.Boys’ Basketball the CiF rankings aren’t going to come out for another week, but you can expect that both poly and Compton will be near the top of their divisions when they do. Both won their opening-day games this week, with Comp-ton upsetting Westchester, who played for a City Section cham-pionship last season. But poly, with much-touted juniors roschon prince and Jor-dan Bell, will be the poll-magnet in the Moore League this year. they begin the season as the No. 3 team in Southern California ac-cording to the LA Times, behind defending state champions Mater dei and Loyola. they’re also the No. 5 team in the state according to the first of-ficial poll to come out of ESpN’s Cal-Hi Sports — not a bad way to start the year for the defend-ing CiF champs, who will look to improve their rankings over the course of the grueling basketball season.LBSU Volleyball the women’s volleyball team provides us with yet another way to cut open the flawed rpi system. rpi is the ranking index used by the NCAA to seed their postseason brackets — but it’s a formula that’s flawed, in ways too significant to get into in such a small space. the biggest way is that it pun-ishes teams for being in confer-ences that don’t have high rpi — which, obviously, isn’t some-thing that teams can control from year to year. So what you get is major dis-crepancies between the rpi rank-ings and the NCAA Coaches’ polls, which are put together by actual human experts who’ve

seen the nation’s top teams play and evaluated them. So, even though the NCAA coaches find the 49ers to be the No. 23 best team in the country, their rpi ranking is No. 41. that means that they’re placed in a region in the bracket based on a ranking of 41 out of the top 64 teams, instead of 23. it’s even worse for other teams. USC is the top team in the nation according to the NCAA coaches, with 53 of the 60 first-place votes going to the trojans. But in the rpi, USC is only No. 6, and thus aren’t given the path to the championship that a consensus top team would be given in, say, men’s basketball, or football. However, there are no moves on the horizon to change the rpi formula, or to devalue its impor-tance in the seeding process, so fans of Long Beach State and other so-called “mid-major” uni-versities may as well get used to.LBSU Soccer the 49ers ended their magi-cal ride in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament last week-end, and the only soccer rankings website still plugging away has rewarded them, as topdrawer-Soccer.com has Long Beach State as the No. 8 team in America. 49er fans will keep a very close eye out for the final NCAA rank-ings, as a strong showing there could be a big recruiting tool, and certainly a further prestige boost for this program.LBSU Basketball Even with their recent losses, which have essentially guaran-teed that the 49ers will never see the NCAA’s top 25 rankings, Long Beach State is still a big fish in a small pond in the world of mid-majors. the 49ers are a consensus top 15 team in all the mid-major rankings. the MidMajortop25.com is ranking the team as the 10th-best mid-major in the nation, between Wichita State and St. Mary’s. Current 49er coach dan Mon-son’s former team, Gonzaga, is the No. 1 ranked team in the on-line poll.

Chase DeJong, Wilson Baseball DeJong, a senior at Wilson this year, touched rarified air last week — on foreign soil. The Bruins’ ace pitcher was in Carta-gena, Colombia, where he helped the United States win a gold medal in the COPABE 18U/AAA Pan American Championships. DeJong, a USC signee, was stellar on the mound, go-ing 1-0 with an ERA of 1.50, giving up just two hits in six innings of work, while striking out six.

Gerard Wicks, Poly Football The Jackrabbits were shocked by Santa Margarita in the CIF quarterfinals, but you can’t blame it on Gerard Wicks. The junior running back played his best game of his football career, and nearly kept Poly in it sin-gle-handedly. Wicks had 10 touches for 143 yards and a pair of touchdowns, averaging more than eight yards per carry in the loss. He’s received recruiting interest from Pac-12 schools, including UCLA.

TJ Robinson, LBSU Basketball The senior had 18 points and 13 rebounds in Long Beach State’s victory over Boise State last week, an impressive performance that earned him his 40th career double-double as a 49er. But the rebound total also brought him to 906 in his career, breaking Francois Wise’s 30-year old school record. Later that week he scored 25 and grabbed 13 boards in a losing effort for the 49ers against Montana.

Janisa Johnson, LBSU Volleyball “Go save the day again, Janisa” is what Johnson’s coach, Brian Gimmillaro, told her when he put her in late in a set for the 49ers. The “super sub” has been doing a lot of that lately with game-changing appearances off the bench. In Long Beach’s final two matches of the regular season last week, the Wilson alum had 27 kills, 24 digs and five blocks. The junior hit .423 in the two performances, earn-ing Big West and American Volleyball Coaches Association Player of the Week awards.

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ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GOBy JJ FiddlerSportS Editor

With Long Beach State wom-en’s soccer and local high school football officially out of the play-offs, we have the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team holding onto the fall season while the Long Beach State basketball teams enter the meat of their non-conference schedules.FRIDAYLBSU Women’s Volleyball vs. San Diego, NCAA Tournament Round One, 5:30 p.m., @ UCLA’s Wooden Center Long Beach State head coach Brian Gimmillaro’s team is making its national-record 25th consecutive appearance in the NCAA postseason, and they will do so against a familiar foe. the University of San diego knocked the 49ers out of the tournament last year in the first round, and this year the 20th-ranked toreros (27-4) look just as formidable. Sophomore middle Chloe Fer-rari (#2, 6’1”) paces the young San diego offense with a team-leading 325 kills to go with an impressive .384 hitting percent-age. Sophomore setter rachel Alvey (#8) is a big reason for those gaudy numbers as she has led USd to a team attack percent-age of .240. on defense, junior libero Kandiss Anderson (#10) leads the team with 471 digs (4.28 dpS) and sophomore middle Katie Hoekman (#9, 6’1”) has a team-high 101 total blocks. the toreros ended their season two weeks ago when they were swept at home by pepperdine, which ended a five-game win-ning streak. San diego opened the season on a 13-game win-ning streak, and then after getting swept at San Francisco, won nine more in a row.LBSU Men’s Basketball vs. BYU-Hawaii, 7 p.m., @ Walter Pyramid the 49ers return home from a two-game road trip to host the division ii fifth-ranked Seasiders (1-4) who are coming off their first win over Alaska-Faibanks, 66-65. Junior guard okesene “Junior” Ale (#10) drained a three-pointer from NBA range as the buzzer sounded to give BYU-Hawaii the victory. tsung-Hsien “Jet” Chang (#23, 6’4” 190 lbs.) scored a game-high 24 points against the Nanooks, and leads the Seasiders with 16 points-per-game while sophomore Bracken

Funk (#45) has a team-high 38 rebounds to go with 12 points per game. BYU-Hawaii has only been outscored 380-329 this season, but they are allowing their oppo-nents to shoot 50% from the field, and they’re getting outrebounded 201-164. Some 49er fans may remember Jet Chang from last year when Long Beach State beat BYU-Hawaii in the ‘Myd, 90-83, while Chang poured in 32 points on 12-for-21 shooting.SUNDAYLBSU Women’s Basketball, 2 p.m., @ Washington the 49ers will wrap up a road trip with the first of two games against pac-12 opponents be-fore coming home to host Ne-vada next thursday. the Huskies (3-2) are coming off a loss to San diego State, and their only other loss was to UC davis in the first game of the season, 69-68. the Washington front court has led the way offensively, as se-nior center regina rogers (#43, 6’3”) is averaging a team-high 17 points-per-game on 70% shoot-ing from the field to go with a team leading seven rebounds per game. TUESDAYLBSU Men’s Basketball, 6 p.m. PT, @ Kansas the rough road that is the non-conference schedule continues tonight at as the 49ers visit the in-famous “phog” Allen Fieldhouse, where the Jayhawks have a 669-107 overall record since 1955. this season, No. 14 Kansas (3-2) has only lost to No. 2 Kentucky and No. 6 duke in tournament play at Madison Square Garden and the Maui invitational Cham-pionship game, respectively. Se-nior guard tyshawn taylor (#10, 6’3” 185 lbs.) and junior forward thomas robinson (#0, 6’10” 237 lbs.) each lead the team with 16 points-per-game, and robinson has a team-high 60 rebounds (12 rpG). the Jayhawks play an ac-tive defensive style under head coach Bill Self to the tune of 41 steals, but they also have turned the ball over 66 times, 18 of which have come from taylor.


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Call 562-951-5032

StudiosNear Downtown

Charming GardenApartments

starting at $600Parking Available

562-951-5032

4 Blocks to Ocean!377 Freeman Avenuenear Buses & Shopping!

1 Bedroom Unit withNew Carpet, Fresh PaintRefrigerator and Stove!

$925/mo., Garage Avail.Mike 562-235-6786

Move In Special Avl!Professionally Managed ByGJ Property Services Incgjpropertyservices.com

Bargain 1Bed 815 E. 9th St.Recently Renovated! $775

Small Pet OK 562-673-5859

Alamitos Beach108 Gaviota Avenue

Block To Ocean/Downtown!Charming Spacious 1 Bed1 Bath, Hardwood FloorsDining Room, Fresh PaintCeiling Fans, Mini BlindsStove + On Site Laundry

1st Month FREE!! $1050/moCall 1 (800) [email protected]

Alamitos Beach1211 East 3rd StreetDUPLEX ~ LOWER

1 Bedroom 1 Bath589 Square Feet

New Carpet, FreshPaint, New Verticalsplus Shared EnclosedFront Courtyard Area

and Parking Space!$900/month, No Pets

Call Yvette562-624-2450

Alamitos Beach330 1/2 Hermosa AveCharming Spanish Style1 Bedrm ApartmentDogs & Cats Welcome!$950/month IncludesGarage, Gas & ElectricBlocks to Beach, Bars

& Restaurants!Call 408-203-5855

Alamitos Beach Cottage1733 E 3rd Street 1 BedroomGarage, Fireplace, w/d hk up$1200., pet ok 562-433-6509

Alamitos Beach Quiet Lwr1425 Appleton 1Bed 1Bath$1000 Move In Special! Catok 562-208-4475 439-9172

BEAUTIFULBelmont Heights

100 Mira Mar AvenueSpacious and Bright

1 Bedroom 1 BathHardwood FloorsStove, Refrigerator

Coin Laundry On Site& Single Car GarageLots of Light! Walk to

Beach & Belmont Shore$1295 a month

AGT 562-881-5555SEE IT ON YouTube

BELMONT SHORERemodeled Private 1 Bed

In Back Over Garages!236A CORONA AVENUE

$1250 no pets 562-857-8000

Beautiful Bluff Park1835 East 1st Street

Large 1 Bedrm 1 Bathwith Refrigerator and

Stove plus On SiteLaundry! $1150/mo

No Pets 562-438-9758JTM Property Mgmnt

PET FRIENDLYClassic 1 Bedroom CharmerNear Beach! with Small PatioHardwood Flrs & Appliances1820 EAST 2ND STREET$975/month 562-433-0775

Brockman PropertiesCALL 562-597-0676

Happy Thanksgiving Long Beach!

1 Bedroom 1 Bath Unit40 ~ 63rd Place $1125 a month

2 Bedroom 2 Bath Unit3437 East Ransom Avenue $1250 a month2611 East Broadway $1295 a month

2 Bedroom 1 Bath Units1424 East 2nd Street $1150 a month1109 Ximeno Avenue $1300 a month1135 Martin Luther King Avenue $875 a month224 Pomona Avenue $1375 a month

3509 East Ocean ~ with Garage ~ $1695 a month676 Coronado Avenue ~ House ~ $1250 a month

Attention: Property Owners!Let us show you what We CAN DO!

3720 East Anaheim St #201 in Long BeachCall 562-597-0676 Today! Or email

[email protected]

BELMONT HEIGHTS233 Newport Avenue

Classic 1920’s BuildingUpper 1 Bedroom 1 BathCarpet, Mini Blinds, FreshPaint, Refrig, Stove + On

Site Laundry $975/monthIncludes ALL Utilities

PET FRIENDLYCall 562-433-2050or 562-505-1779

Belmont Heights500 Ximeno AvenueAVAILABLE NOW!

Great Location!1 & 2 Bedroom ApartmentsNear Wilson, CSULB TheBeach, 710 & 405 Fwy’s

Blinds, Carpet, RefrigeratorRange + On Site Laundry &Large Courtyard, SwimmingPool, BBQ Area & PuttingGreen! + Plans for a GYM!

1 Parking Included!1 Bedrooms $1065/mo2 Bed 1 Bath $1375/mo2 Bed 2 Bath $1425/mo

Call 562-433-1005

Belmont Heights827 Grand AvenueHugemungus Upper

1 Bed 1 Bath, Priv PatioPlush Carpet, Fresh PaintDW, Microwave, RefrigStove +On Site Laundry& Private Garage $1050.,Call 1 (800) 400-8030

[email protected]

Belmont Shore124 Quincy Avenue

Complete RemodeledUpper 1 Bed 1 BathHardwood Floors

Open Beam CeilingsFresh Paint, Stove &

Refrigerator + On SiteLaundry $1225/mo.,

Garage AvailableSmall Pets Considered

NO SMOKINGEric 310-849-1676

Best DealOn Peninsula

1 Bed Designer GemSteps to Bay & BeachRecessed Lighting and

Tile Thru Out, MicrowvRefrig, Stove and WaterPaid! 55 - 61st Place

$1050/mo No Pets!Call (562) 438-1711

Alamitos Beach Quiet Lwr1425 Appleton 1Bed 1Bath$1000 Move In Special! Catok 562-208-4475 439-9172

COMMERCIALREAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE

RENTAL ALL

RENTAL ALL

RENTAL ONE BEDROOM

RENTAL ONE BEDROOM RENTAL ONE BEDROOM

FLOORING

CONCRETE/EARTHQUAKE/FOUNDATION

CONCRETE

CONCRETE

LAWN /TREE SERVICELAWN /TREE SERVICELAWN SERVICE

ELECTRICDRYWALL ELECTRICDRYWALL ELECTRIC

HANDYMANHANDYMAN

FLOORING

COMPUTERSCOMPUTERSCABINETRY CARPET CLEANING

AUTO REPAIRATTORNEY ATTORNEY

THIS SIZE SPACE

THIS SIZE SPACE

CONCRETE

CONCRETE/EARTHQUAKE/FOUNDATION

HANDYMAN

HANDYMAN

HAULING

HANDYMAN

(562) 484-8050

Over 29 yrs Exp.in Repair & Remodeling

Doors/Hardware • WindowsDrywall/Plaster • PaintingCeramic Tile • Electrical

• Plumbing • Flooring

Richard’sHandymanService

HANDYMAN HANDYMAN HANDYMANHANDYMAN

HOUSECLEANING HOUSECLEANING

HOUSECLEANING HOUSECLEANING

Get a fair price for the best job! LOCALREFS

562.822.0169562.822.0169Live Fresh

and Clean

HOUSES, APTS, MOVE-IN & OUT, WEEKLY, BIWEELKY,

MONTHLY, OCCASIONALLYWe clean windows, carpets

and pressure wash patiosMarlon Diaz (owner & family crew)

562.507.8439562.507.8439

HOUSECLEANING

LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING

FLOORING

ELECTRIC

FLOORINGFENCE/GATE IRON

HANDYMAN

AIR CONDITIONING/HEATING

THIS SIZE SPACEHOLIDAY SPECIAL

Grunion, Downtown & Uptown =67,000 Distribution + ONLINE

$356 = 12 WeeksCALL JESSICA (562) 433-2000

Let Our Business Help Your BusinessGrow its Business!









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PAINTING

PLUMBING

PAINTING PAINTING

PAINTING & HANDYMAN PLUMBING

PLUMBING

PLUMBING

(562) 522-6680

PLUMBING & HEATING ROOFINGROOFING

PAINTING

MURAL/CUSTOM ARTMOVING AND STORAGELIGHTING

ROOFING

Let OUR Business Help YOUR Business GROW ITS BUSINESS! Call Jessica (562) 433-2000 to advertise in the Service Directory!

WINDOW CLEANINGWINDOW CLEANING THIS SIZE SPACE

HOLIDAY SPECIALGrunion, Downtown & Uptown = 67,000 Distribution + ONLINE

$712 = 12 Weeks

CALL JESSICA (562) 433-2000Let Our Business Help Your Business Grow its Business!





THIS SIZE SPACE

HOLIDAY SPECIAL

Grunion, Downtown & Uptown

= 67,000 Distribution + ONLINE

$712 = 12 Weeks

CALL JESSICA (562) 433-2000

Let OUR Business Help YOUR Business

GROW ITS BUSINESS!


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