{"id":104574,"date":"2025-12-22T06:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104574\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:16:16","slug":"beach-fall-on-the-road-to-4-ucla-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104574\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Fall On The Road To #4 UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/a> faced a tough challenge against No. 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/ucla-bruins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA<\/a>, losing 106\u201344 in a lopsided road game at Pauley Pavilion. Although the Beach struggled overall, JaQuoia Jones-Brown led early efforts with 10 points in the first half. UCLA&#8217;s strong shooting propelled them to a commanding 57-23 lead at halftime, proving too much for Long Beach State to overcome. The Beach bench showed sparks of life, contributing 22 points, with notable efforts from Christy Reynoso, Rosie Akot, and Morgan Mack. Head coach Amy Wright highlighted team improvement and collective effort as crucial takeaways despite the defeat.<\/p>\n<p> By the NumbersLong Beach State scored only 23 points in the first half.UCLA led 57-23 at halftime.The Beach bench scored 22 points in total. State of PlayLong Beach State showed offensive potential with a strong third quarter.Players like Reynoso contributed effectively off the bench.The team is focused on building confidence and collective play for future games. What&#8217;s Next<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Long Beach State aims to harness the team&#8217;s growth and energy as they prepare for upcoming matchups. With continued emphasis on teamwork and confidence, the Beach hopes to translate these efforts into wins.<\/p>\n<p> Bottom Line<\/p>\n<p>Despite the heavy loss, Long Beach State&#8217;s collective effort signifies promising growth. Building on this teamwork can lead to improved performance in future games, setting a foundation to achieve better outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Women&#8217;s Basketball faced a tough challenge against No. 4 UCLA, losing 106\u201344 in a lopsided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-104574","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\/104574","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=104574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}