{"id":138498,"date":"2026-01-18T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138498\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:33:08","slug":"sykes-34-lead-long-beach-state-past-cal-state-northridge-87-80-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138498\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes&#8217; 34 lead Long Beach State past Cal State Northridge 87-80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">NORTHRIDGE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/gavin-sykes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> put up 34 points as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/long-beach-state-49ers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/csun-matadors-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal State Northridge<\/a> 87-80 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Sykes shot 8 for 18 (3 for 9 from 3-point range) and 15 of 16 from the free-throw line for the Beach (8-11, 4-3 Big West Conference). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/rob-diaz-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Diaz III<\/a> scored 18 points while going 6 of 9 (4 for 6 from 3-point range) and added six rebounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/petar-majstorovic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petar Majstorovic<\/a> finished with 14 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Larry Hughes Jr. finished with 21 points for the Matadors (11-9, 4-4). James Evans Jr. added 17 points for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/colorado-state-rams-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CSU<\/a> Northridge. Josh O&#8217;Garro had 15 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHRIDGE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Gavin Sykes put up 34 points as Long Beach State beat Cal State Northridge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-138498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138498","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=138498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}