{"id":100942,"date":"2025-12-19T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100942\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:58:11","slug":"long-beach-state-defeats-pepperdine-81-78-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100942\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State defeats Pepperdine 81-78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/gavin-sykes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/long-beach-state-49ers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/pepperdine-waves-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pepperdine<\/a> 81-78 on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Sykes shot 9 of 16 from the field for the Beach (3-9). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/petar-majstorovic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petar Majstorovic<\/a> added 20 points and six rebounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/shaquil-bender-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaquil Bender<\/a> finished with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/styles-phipps-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Styles Phipps<\/a> led the way for the Waves (4-8) with 25 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/javon-cooley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javon Cooley<\/a> added 17 points for Pepperdine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/danilo-dozic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danilo Dozic<\/a> finished with 15 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Bender scored nine points in the first half and Long Beach State went into the break trailing 37-36. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Gavin Sykes scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-100942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100942","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=100942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}