{"id":160585,"date":"2026-02-02T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:36:06","slug":"softball-selected-for-espnu-broadcast-against-long-beach-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160585\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Selected for ESPNU Broadcast Against Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 <a href=\"https:\/\/bigwest.org\/news\/2026\/2\/2\/rivalry-renewed-between-beach-and-titans-in-nationally-televised-espnu-softball-game.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Big West Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FULLERTON, Calif. \u2013 Cal State Fullerton Softball selected for an ESPNU broadcast on April 25 at 1:00 p.m. versus Long Beach State, ESPN and The Big West announced Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Titans are coming off a program-best season that included 18 All-Big West honors and <a href=\"https:\/\/fullertontitans.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/gina-oaks-garcia\/804\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"804\" target=\"_blank\">Gina Oaks Garcia<\/a>&#8216;s first Big West Coach of the Year award. They will host crosstown rival Long Beach State on April 24-25 at Anderson Family Field.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Cal State Fullerton snapped a six-game losing streak at Long Beach State with a 5-4 win in the series opener. The Titans went on to complete the sweep with an 11-0 run-rule victory and a 1-0 win, marking the program&#8217;s first road sweep over The Beach since April 2017. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fullerton went 37-17 overall last season and 22-5 in Big West play, earning them a back-to-back regular-season title and the No. 1 seed in the inaugural Big West Softball Championship. In 2026, Oaks Garcia aims to lead the Titans to their 33rd NCAA postseason appearance while navigating a 52-game slate that features meetings with 10 NCAA Tournament teams from 2025, including Women&#8217;s College World Series runner-up Texas Tech.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans open the 2026 season by hosting the four-day Easton Classic beginning Thursday, Feb. 5. They will play six total games, featuring two each against Ole Miss, Boise State, and Portland State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SUPPORT THE TITANS!<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can purchase tickets for various Cal State Fullerton athletic events by visiting FullertonTitansTickets.com. The Athletic Ticket Office can also be contacted by phone at 657-278-2783 or by email at athletictixs@fullerton.edu. The Ticket Office is located at the Titan Baseball ticketing office and is open from 10 am \u2013 4 pm PT, Monday \u2013 Friday.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE TITANS!<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can keep up with the latest in Titan Athletics by following us on Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fullertontitans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\/FullertonTitans<\/a>), X (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FullertonTitans\" rel=\"nofollow\">@FullertonTitans<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fullertontitans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FullertonTitans<\/a>), YouTube (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FullertonTitansAthletics?themeRefresh=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FullertonTitansAthletics<\/a>) and TikTok (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@fullertontitans?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FullertonTitans<\/a>). In addition, the softball team has established its own Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fullerton_sb\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Fullerton_sb<\/a>) and X accounts (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fullerton_sb?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Fullerton_sb<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE TITANS ON ESPN+<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTitans fans can now watch home contests exclusively on ESPN+. Cal State Fullerton has built a top-tier production studio to give the viewers an ESPN-quality production for Titans Athletics. Additionally, all schools in the Big West Conference are committed to producing ESPN-quality streams, which will allow fans to watch the Titans on ESPN+ for all road conference games.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; The Big West Release FULLERTON, Calif. \u2013 Cal State Fullerton Softball selected for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-160585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}