{"id":100889,"date":"2025-12-19T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:10:13","slug":"long-beach-state-defeats-pepperdine-81-78-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100889\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State defeats Pepperdine 81-78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959612_725_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP)  Gavin Sykes scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half, and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/LNGBCH\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/PEPPER\/pepperdine-waves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pepperdine<\/a> 81-78 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Sykes shot 9 of 16 from the field for the Beach (3-9). Petar Majstorovic added 20 points and six rebounds. Shaquil Bender finished with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Styles Phipps led the way for the Waves (4-8) with 25 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Javon Cooley added 17 points for Pepperdine. Danilo Dozic finished with 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>Bender scored nine points in the first half and Long Beach State went into the break trailing 37-36.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Gavin Sykes scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half, and Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4213,131,133,132,26043,41509],"class_list":["post-100889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-college-basketball","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state-beach","tag-pepperdine-waves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100889","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=100889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}