{"id":119573,"date":"2026-01-04T07:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119573\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:33:35","slug":"vartiainen-and-saine-score-20-points-apiece-weber-state-knocks-off-sacramento-state-95-82-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119573\/","title":{"rendered":"Vartiainen and Saine score 20 points apiece, Weber State knocks off Sacramento State 95-82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765959612_725_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>OGDEN, Utah (AP)  Viljami Vartiainen and Tijan Saine scored 20 points apiece as <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/WEBER\/weber-state-wildcats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weber State<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/SACST\/sacramento-state-hornets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento State<\/a> 95-82 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Vartiainen also contributed five rebounds and Saine made 6 of 12 from the field, including 2 for 4 from 3-point range, and 6 for 6 from the free-throw line and added four steals. Nigel Burris had 14 points and shot 5 of 7 from the field and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line for the Wildcats (7-8, 1-1 Big Sky Conference).<\/p>\n<p>Mikey Williams led the Hornets (4-10, 0-2) in scoring, finishing with 26 points. Mark Lavrenov added 12 points for Sacramento State. Jayden Teat had 12 points. The loss was the Hornets&#8217; sixth in a row.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OGDEN, Utah (AP) Viljami Vartiainen and Tijan Saine scored 20 points apiece as Weber State beat Sacramento State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4213,121,123,122,17685,62853],"class_list":{"0":"post-119573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news","12":"tag-sacramento-state-hornets","13":"tag-weber-state-wildcats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119573","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=119573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}