{"id":116731,"date":"2026-01-01T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116731\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:51:08","slug":"long-beach-state-mens-volleyball-hosts-the-north-american-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116731\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Men\u2019s Volleyball Hosts The North American Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 With the season just around the corner, the Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Volleyball team will host the North American Challenge, a preseason exhibition tournament featuring four teams from the United States and Canada. The two-day event will take place Friday, January 2, and Sunday, January 4, with matches held at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the Beach in the tournament are UC San Diego, Calgary, and Alberta, bringing together a competitive mix of NCAA and U SPORTS programs for early-season action. The tournament will feature eight total matches across the two days, providing fans with a full slate of high-level volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule<br \/>Friday, January 2<\/p>\n<p>TimeMatchup (Home vs. Away)11:30 AMLong Beach State vs. Alberta2:00 PMUC San Diego vs. Calgary4:30 PMUC San Diego vs. Alberta7:00 PMLong Beach State vs. Calgary<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, January 4<\/p>\n<p>TimeMatchup (Home vs. Away)10:00 AMLong Beach State vs. Calgary12:30 PMUC San Diego vs. Alberta3:00 PMUC San Diego vs. Calgary5:30 PMLong Beach State vs. Alberta<\/p>\n<p>Following each match, a Player of the Match from each team will be recognized. At the conclusion of the tournament, an All-Tournament Team will be selected.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets can be purchased <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.evenue.net\/events\/MV\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Live statistics for all matches will be available via <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/BeachLiveStats.StatBroadcast.com\">BeachLiveStats.StatBroadcast.com<\/a>.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 With the season just around the corner, the Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Volleyball team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-116731","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\/116731","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=116731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}