LONG BEACH \u2014 Petar Majstorovic scored a career-high 25 points to go with 10 rebounds, and the Long Beach State men\u2019s basketball team turned in a solid defensive effort to beat Cal Poly, 74-66, for its first Big West Conference win of the season.<\/p>\n
Long Beach built a 12-point lead by halftime and extended the margin to 25 midway through the second half before the Mustangs cut into the gap down the stretch in a game that was played in LBSU\u2019s auxiliary facility \u2013 the Gold Mine \u2013 after rain forced the closure of the Pyramid.<\/p>\n
It was the second double-double of the season for Majstorovic, a sophomore forward, who shot 12 for 16 from the field and added three assists. Gavin Sykes added 16 points for Long Beach (5-10 overall, 1-2 Big West), while Cole Farrell scored 10.<\/p>\n
LBSU had a 46-18 scoring advantage in the paint and shot 50% from the field (29 for 58) while holding the run-and-gun Mustangs (6-10, 2-2) to 34% shooting from the field (19 for 56).<\/p>\n
Cal Poly took its only lead of the game at 17-16, but the hosts quickly regained the momentum. Sykes made a pull-up 3-pointer, then Farrell fired up the crowd with a dunk over 6-foot-8 Mustangs star Hamad Mousa. Rob Diaz III then stole the ball from Mousa to cap a run that changed the structure of the game.<\/p>\n
Long Beach held a 38-26 lead at halftime then used a pair of big runs to open a 63-38 advantage on a Majstorovic 3-pointer with just over 10 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
Cal Poly eventually reeled off a 16-3 run to close within 11 points with 4:01 left, but LBSU scored on its next two possessions to maintain a double-digit lead. The Mustangs only pulled within single digits on a layup in the closing seconds.<\/p>\n
Mousa finished with 19 points and eight rebounds to lead the Mustangs, who had a 30-12 scoring advantage from 3-point range to offset their paint disadvantage. Jake Davis added a career-best 15 points.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
LBSU plays at UC Irvine on Thursday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH \u2014 Petar Majstorovic scored a career-high 25 points to go with 10 rebounds, and the Long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29668,4213,1327,131,133,132,26758,127],"class_list":["post-119572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-big-west-conference","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119572","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=119572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}