TAYLOR BIRDSports Assistant The Pepperdine women’s basketball team was dealt its 10th defeat in its past 11 games Saturday night, falling 70-57 to conference foe Loyola Marymount at Firestone Fieldhouse. “Not a great effort in terms of intensity,” Head Coach Julie Rousseau said after the game. “I thought LMU just brought more intensity … we didn’t play as well together as we … [Read more...] about Waves drop fifth straight to rival Lions at Fieldhouse
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Waves struggle on road trip without Carroll, lose third straight match to Long Beach State
GREG BARNETTSports Editor The No.-5 Pepperdine men’s volleyball team dropped its third consecutive match Wednesday night with a loss at No.-3 Long Beach State University, 30-21, 32-30, 30-21. With the loss, Pepperdine falls to 4-3 overall and 4-3 in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play. Long Beach State stays unbeaten on the season, 7-0 overall and 5-0 in MPSF action. “I … [Read more...] about Waves struggle on road trip without Carroll, lose third straight match to Long Beach State
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A ‘Cheer’ful Wave CHRIS SEGALDirector of Strategic Planning There is one NCAA Division 1 team performing without a head coach that still has the ability to get fans in Firestone Fieldhouse pumped and excited. Despite the stresses of a grueling schedule, the lack of any scholarships, or even being allowed to register early with the other teams, this team prides itself on … [Read more...] about DAVID TESIC/Assistant Photo Editor
Interim coach seeks positives
GREG BARNETTSports Editor Just six days after becoming interim head coach following Vance Walberg’s departure, Eric Bridgeland sat down with the Graphic to dicuss his first weekend leading the Pepperdine men’s basketball team. Bridgeland and the Waves continue conference play this weekend when they play host to rival Loyola Marymount on Saturday night at Firestone … [Read more...] about Interim coach seeks positives
Pep players nice, most pros not
SHUHEI MATSUOAssistant Online Editor Did you guys see Tiger Woods’ press conference on SportsCenter yesterday? If you did, did you see me in the back corner? Yep, I was there. How? Well, I was at the Buick Invitational until Wednesday as a reporter from Golf Digest, a company that I interned for this past summer. I was down in San Diego earlier this week because my editor from … [Read more...] about Pep players nice, most pros not