Long Beach State University Athletics
Crimes Earns Weekly Honor
11/27/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
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Crimes Earns Fourth Player of the Week IRVINE, CA – Junior Alexis Crimes of the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team earned her second straight (and fourth overall) Big West Player of the Week honor as announced by the league office on Monday. Crimes becomes the first player since UC Irvine’s Kelly Wing in 2003 to earn four Player of the Week honors in a season. Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga) helped guide Long Beach State to three wins over Virginia Commonwealth, Albany, and Western Michigan last weekend in the Baden Thanksgiving Classic, by averaging 5.11 kills and 2.11 blocks per game, while hitting .521. Crimes posted 15 kills and six blocks vs. Va. Commonwealth on Nov. 24 and hit .720 (19-1-25) vs. Albany on Nov. 25. In the regular season finale the 6-3 middle blocker registered 12 kills and nine blocks vs. Western Michigan. The NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Committee announced on Sunday the 64-team field for the 2006 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship, and Long Beach State will be hosting first and second round matches on December 1 & 2 at the Walter Pyramid. Joining the 49ers are Pepperdine, Oregon and Hawaii. On Dec. 1 Hawaii faces Oregon at 5 pm, and at 7 pm, Long Beach State faces Pepperdine. Saturday's second round match time is 7 pm. Long Beach State (25-5) makes its 21st tournament appearance and 20th in a row (1985, 1987-2006). The last time the 49ers hosted a first and second round was in 2001. That season LBSU advanced all the way to the NCAA Championship. The 49ers have posted a 45-17 record in NCAA post-season play.
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