{"id":124508,"date":"2026-01-08T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124508\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:38:10","slug":"long-beach-takes-a-loss-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124508\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Takes a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/long-beach\/long-beach-bearcats\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Beach<\/a> was not able to break out of their rough patch  on Tuesday as the team picked up their third straight  defeat. They were  outmatched by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/gulfport\/gulfport-admirals\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gulfport Admirals<\/a> and fell  78-49. While losing is never fun, the Bearcats can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Mississippi basketball rankings (they are ranked 153rd, while the Admirals are ranked fifth).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">Long Beach&#8217;s loss dropped their record down to 8-10. As for Gulfport, their victory was  their tenth straight at home dating back to last season, which  pushed their record up to 16-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> Both  teams are looking forward to the support of their home crowds in their upcoming games. Long Beach will square off against Hancock at 7:30  p.m.  on Friday. As for Gulfport, they will take on St. Martin at 7:30  p.m.  on Friday. The Admirals&#8217; defense better be ready for this one: the Yellow Jackets have averaged an impressive 54.9  points per game this season.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-124508","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\/124508","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=124508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}