{"id":145927,"date":"2026-01-23T06:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145927\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:22:25","slug":"ward-scores-21-as-csu-fullerton-knocks-off-long-beach-state-71-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145927\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward scores 21 as CSU Fullerton knocks off Long Beach State 71-61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/joshua-ward-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Ward&#8217;s<\/a> 21 points helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/colorado-state-rams-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CSU<\/a> Fullerton defeat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/long-beach-state-49ers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> 71-61 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Ward also contributed nine rebounds and four steals for the Titans (9-12, 4-5 Big West Conference). Jefferson Monegro shot 5 for 11 (1 for 5 from 3-point range) and 5 of 6 from the free-throw line to add 16 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jaden-henderson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Henderson<\/a> finished 4 of 5 from the field to finish with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/gavin-sykes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> led the Beach (8-12, 4-4) in scoring, finishing with 20 points and four assists. Long Beach State also got 15 points from Rob Diaz III.<\/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":"FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Joshua Ward&#8217;s 21 points helped CSU Fullerton defeat Long Beach State 71-61 on Thursday&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-145927","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\/145927","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=145927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145927\/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=145927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}