{"id":138709,"date":"2026-01-18T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138709\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:22:11","slug":"sykes-34-lead-long-beach-state-past-cal-state-northridge-87-80-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138709\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes&#8217; 34 lead Long Beach State past Cal State Northridge 87-80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHRIDGE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Gavin Sykes put up 34 points as Long Beach State beat Cal State Northridge 87-80 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>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). Rob Diaz III scored 18 points while going 6 of 9 (4 for 6 from 3-point range) and added six rebounds. Petar Majstorovic finished with 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Larry Hughes Jr. finished with 21 points for the Matadors (11-9, 4-4). James Evans Jr. added 17 points for CSU Northridge. Josh O&#8217;Garro had 15 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/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":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,39434,29643,70280,131,133,132,1817,34875,29642],"class_list":{"0":"post-138709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-beach","9":"tag-cal-state-northridge","10":"tag-gavin-sykes","11":"tag-james-evans-jr","12":"tag-long-beach","13":"tag-long-beach-headlines","14":"tag-long-beach-news","15":"tag-long-beach-state","16":"tag-petar-majstorovic","17":"tag-rob-diaz-iii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138709","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=138709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}