{"id":13728,"date":"2025-10-20T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/13728\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:00:19","slug":"runners-leap-into-3rd-place-after-2nd-straight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/13728\/","title":{"rendered":"`Runners Leap into 3rd Place after 2nd-Straight Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth-year `Runner Kim Garcia scored the eventual game-winning goal in the 29th minute when she cleaned up a ricocheting ball and found the back of the net for the second time this season and the second time this week.<\/p>\n<p>Just 24 seconds before the end of the first period, a Bakersfield corner kick bounced off the knees of a Highlander defender and into the net as the UCR own goal put the `Runners up 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the 61st minute, Garcia connected a pass to Sara Ybarra who sent a perfect service into the middle of the box. CSUB&#8217;s leading scorer, Cynthia Ramirez, sent the ball home past the UCR keeper for her fifth goal of the season, giving Bakersfield the 3-0 final score.<\/p>\n<p>CSUB goalkeeper Kamy Anaya and the `Runner defense recorded its third shutout of the season while Anaya made three saves on the night.<\/p>\n<p>CSUB (7-7-2, 4-3-1 Big West) has just two matches remaining in the regular season: Oct. 26 vs. Hawai&#8217;i and Oct. 30 vs. Cal State Fullerton. Both of those matches will be hosted in Bakersfield, so join us at the Main Soccer Field as the `Runners look to make a final push into the postseason. Tickets are available ahead of time at <a href=\"https:\/\/gorunners.universitytickets.com\/w\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">GoRunners.com\/Tickets<\/a>. Skip the line, buy online!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">~GoRunners.com~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifth-year `Runner Kim Garcia scored the eventual game-winning goal in the 29th minute when she cleaned up a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-13728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728","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=13728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}