SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Long Beach State Women’s Basketball showed fight on the road Saturday afternoon but couldn’t recover from a slow start and a late Cal Poly push, falling 63-49 at the Mott Athletics Center.<\/p>\n
The Beach had trouble finding an offensive rhythm early, managing just four points on 2-of-14 shooting in the opening quarter to trail 12-4. Things picked up in the second period, as improved ball movement and perimeter shooting helped LBSU settle in and trim the deficit to eight at halftime, 26-18.<\/p>\n
JaQuoia Jones-Brown<\/a> anchored the effort for Long Beach State, posting 13 points, 11 rebounds, and five steals while logging nearly 40 minutes. The double-double marked her fourth of the season. Christy Reynoso<\/a> gave the Beach a spark off the bench, knocking down four three-pointers and finishing with 12 points. Long Beach State shot 37.5 percent from beyond the arc, with three-pointers accounting for more than half of their total scoring.<\/p>\n The Beach continued to chip away after halftime, outscoring Cal Poly 18-16 in the third quarter and pulling within six late in the period. The Mustangs responded down the stretch, asserting themselves in the paint and pulling away in the fourth quarter with a 21-13 advantage.<\/p>\n The Beach return to the Pyramid to host UC Irvine on Thursday, January 8. Tip off is scheduled for 6pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Long Beach State Women’s Basketball showed fight on the road Saturday afternoon but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-119257","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\/119257","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=119257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}