Long Beach State head coach Troy Buckley thinks his 2018 team is capable of more of these kind of postseasons celebrations.

Fall Report: Long Beach State

LONG BEACH, Calif. — For the second year in a row, I find myself starting a fall write-up on Long Beach State by talking about how close the Dirtbag came to making it to Omaha back in June.

In 2016 it was The Beach taking Miami down to the wire in the seventh game of the Coral Gables Regional. And of course, had the Dirtbags beaten the Canes, they would’ve hosted Boston College in the supers, making them favorites to make a trip to Omaha.

Last year, it was a knock-down-drag-out regional win over Texas and then a knock-down-drag-out super regional[…]