Long Beach State University Athletics
49ers Host Tournament This Weekend
4/13/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Water Polo
49ers to Host Tournament on Friday and Saturday LONG BEACH, CA-- The No. 10-ranked 49er women's water polo team (12-10, 4-6 MPSF) will close out the regular season over the next week when they host the annual Beach Tournament, featuring Cal Baptist (15-12 prior to game on April 13), CS Bakersfield (17-13), CS Northridge (10-14, 1-8 MPSF) and No. 5-ranked Hawaii (11-8, 5-4 MPSF prior to game on April 13), on Friday and Saturday and No. 3-ranked UCLA on April 20. Complete results will be available online. LBSU has won three of its last four and are at full strength with the return of All-American Cassie Azevedo, who missed the first four games in March, due to a medical condition. The 49ers enter the final week of the season in ninth place in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation standings with two MPSF contests remaining, against Hawaii at 9 a.m. on Saturday and against UCLA next week. LBSU holds the tiebreaker over the two teams behind them, and if they remain as the ninth seed they will open up the MPSF Championships at UC Irvine on April 27 at 3 p.m. This weekend the 49ers will also play CS Northridge and CS Bakersfield on Friday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. and Cal Baptist on Saturday at 4 p.m. Azevedo remains just 15 goals away from tying the school-record (206) with 191 career goals and a team-best 41 goals. The senior ranks second in the MPSF in scoring as well. Azevedo, despite not scoring in her first game on the year on April 9, played her best all around game as the 49er offense has begun to gel scoring 8.5 goals per game over its last four contests. Some of the offense has come from junior Christina Wensman, who has 34 goals on the season, after scoring two goals in three-straight games. Marina Canetti has scored five goals over the recent stretch, while Tara Campbell has scored goals in six of her last seven games. Campbell's leadership on defense, as the team's 2-meter defender, has helped in the team's reassurance late in the season. Canetti has been getting it done at 2-meters as well, setting a school-record for earned ejections in a season. Kim Hayes remains the team's lone goale this season, producing 150 saves on the season, fourth-best all-time and seventh-best during a single-season. Hayes blocked at least nine shots in the team's previous three-game winning streak agaisnt UC Santa Barbara, Arizona State and Pacific. The April 20 game against UCLA will also be senior day, for Azevedo, Campbell, Lindsey Machado and Dolores Johnson. TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
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