{"id":141366,"date":"2026-01-20T10:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141366\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:18:19","slug":"long-beach-state-concludes-perfect-opening-weekend-with-two-dominant-wins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141366\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Concludes Perfect Opening Weekend With Two Dominant Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Via Long Beach State University Athletics,  01\/18\/2026 <\/p>\n<p> FULLERTON, Calif. \u2013 Women\u2019s Water Polo finished its first weekend perfect, adding two more wins over Biola, 20-7, and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 21-5. Sophomore Rita Gurri scored eight goals on the day to pace the offense on a perfect weekend of shooting, including a career-high six goals against the Athenas. Senior Elisa Portillo added 20 goals over the first weekend and jumped to third all-time in goals scored for the program with 196. Against the Eagles, Portillo led the offense with a season-high six goals, while Gaby Patenaude added four. Long Beach State (4-0) started the game strong, controlling the pace with\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"block-a_d-registration__img\" alt=\"Follow your favorite teams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/long-beach-state-1-150x150.png\" data-refresh=\"logo\"\/> <a class=\"block-a_d-registration__cta\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/account\/create\/?trid=registration-ad\" aria-label=\"Follow your favorite teams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Follow your favorite teams <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/news\/2026\/1\/17\/womens-water-polo-long-beach-state-concludes-perfect-opening-weekend-with-two-dominant-wins\" class=\"post-external__source btn link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Long Beach State University Athletics <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Long Beach State University Athletics, 01\/18\/2026 FULLERTON, Calif. \u2013 Women\u2019s Water Polo finished its first weekend perfect,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-141366","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\/141366","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=141366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}