{"id":145720,"date":"2026-01-23T03:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145720\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:38:07","slug":"basketball-recap-anaheim-comes-up-short-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145720\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Recap: Anaheim Comes Up Short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">After flying high against La Quinta  on Tuesday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/anaheim-colonists\/basketball\/girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anaheim<\/a> came back down to earth. The Colonists took  a  44-39 hit to the loss column at the hands of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/loara-saxons\/basketball\/girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Loara Saxons<\/a> on Friday. The Colonists were given a dose of their own medicine in this game as the Saxons apparently hadn&#8217;t forgotten their  loss the last time these teams played  back in January of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Loara to victory, but perhaps none more so than  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/loara-saxons\/athletes\/sophia-rangel\/?careerid=u5hma0dik3hp9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Sophia Rangel<\/a>, who  dropped  a double-double with 23 points and ten  rebounds. That makes it 13 consecutive games in which  Rangel has scored at least a third of the Saxons&#8217; points. Another player making a difference was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/anaheim\/loara-saxons\/athletes\/dulce-espinoza\/?careerid=md7meicq3b733\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Dulce Espinoza<\/a>, who  posted 12  points and three  steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">Anaheim&#8217;s defeat dropped their record down to 3-7. As for Loara,  the  victory made it two in a row for them and  bumps their season record up to 9-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Anaheim didn&#8217;t take long to hit the court again: they&#8217;ve already played their next  matchup,  a  42-28  win against Los Amigos on the 13th. As for Loara, they also wasted no time getting back out on the court and have already played their next  contest,  a  44-15  victory against La Quinta on the 13th.<\/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":"After flying high against La Quinta on Tuesday, Anaheim came back down to earth. The Colonists took a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-145720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145720","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=145720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}