{"id":160369,"date":"2026-02-02T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160369\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:28:19","slug":"long-beach-state-drops-narrow-4-3-decision-to-grand-canyon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160369\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Drops Narrow 4-3 Decision To Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Long Beach State women’s tennis battled down to the final court but came up just short in a 4-3 loss to Grand Canyon on Saturday at the Rhodes Tennis Center.<\/p>\n

The Beach opened the match strong by claiming the doubles point. The No. 1 duo of Cecilia Costa<\/a> and Paulina Franco set the tone with a 7-5 victory, followed by a 6-3 win at No. 2 from Johanna Hiesmair<\/a> and Daria Malaescu<\/a> to secure the early advantage.<\/p>\n

In singles play, Long Beach State earned three points, highlighted by composed performances in the middle of the lineup. Pamela Badillo<\/a> picked up a straight-set win at No. 3, defeating Hams Metwally 6-3, 6-4. Malaescu delivered one of the match’s most competitive finishes at No. 4, rebounding after dropping the second set to close out a 6-1, 1-6, 6-0 victory over Gala Arangio.<\/p>\n

The match ultimately hinged on several tightly contested three-set battles. Costa pushed Karina Hofbauer at No. 1 but fell 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Paulina Franco battled through three sets at No. 5 but ultimately fell 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, as Grand Canyon secured the decisive point to clinch the match.<\/p>\n

Despite the narrow loss, the Beach showed depth across the lineup, competing point-for-point against a strong GCU squad and putting themselves in position until the final moments. \n<\/p>\n

The Beach continue their homestand next week, hosting LMU on Friday at the Rhodes Tennis Center. The match is set to begin at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. — Long Beach State women’s tennis battled down to the final court but came up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-160369","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\/160369","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=160369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}