The Cal State San Marcos women’s basketball team opened the 2025-26 season with a 58-52 victory over Azusa Pacific at The Sports Center on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Cougars shot 33.3% (20-of-60) from the field and 33.3% (6-of-18) from beyond the arc, while holding APU to 25.0% from the field and 21.1% from 3-point range. The Cougars also won the rebound battle 55-41, led by\u00a0Kaity Haan’s<\/a>\u00a0game-high 16.<\/p>\n Sophie Morales<\/a>\u00a0had 15 points, five rebounds and four assists for CSUSM, while teammate Sydney Hani<\/a> added 16 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n The Cougars notched their second win on Saturday, beating visiting Point Loma Nazarene 62-50. CSUSM’s next game is Nov. 28 against Northwest Nazarene in the PLNU Thanksgiving Classic.<\/p>\n ‘;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cal State San Marcos women’s basketball team opened the 2025-26 season with a 58-52 victory over Azusa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[5654,64,63,726,167371,85,22600],"class_list":{"0":"post-290991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-csusm","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-topstory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}