{"id":145998,"date":"2026-01-23T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145998\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:34:11","slug":"ward-scores-21-as-csu-fullerton-knocks-off-long-beach-state-71-61-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145998\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward scores 21 as CSU Fullerton knocks off Long Beach State 71-61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769021294_651_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FULLERTON, Calif. (AP)  Joshua Ward&#8217;s 21 points helped CSU Fullerton defeat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/LNGBCH\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> 71-61 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>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. Jaden Henderson finished 4 of 5 from the field to finish with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Sykes 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>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) Joshua Ward&#8217;s 21 points helped CSU Fullerton defeat Long Beach State 71-61 on Thursday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[72780,4213,131,133,132,26043],"class_list":{"0":"post-145998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-cal-state-fullerton-titans","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-long-beach-state-beach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145998","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=145998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}