LONG BEACH, Calif. – Long Beach State women’s tennis dropped a tightly contested 4-3 decision to Loyola Marymount in a non-conference matchup on Friday afternoon at the Rhodes Tennis Center. The Beach moves to 2-3 overall on the season following the narrow setback, while LMU improved to 4-2.<\/p>\n
Long Beach State claimed the doubles point to open the match, earning wins on courts two and three. Johanna Hiesmair<\/a> and Daria Malaescu<\/a> set the tone with a 6-2 victory at No. 2 doubles, followed by Pamela Badillo<\/a> and Thea Jagare<\/a> securing a 6-2 win on court three to clinch the opening point. The No. 1 doubles match was left unfinished with LBSU holding a 5-4 advantage.<\/p>\n In singles play, Loyola Marymount rallied to win four of the six matches to seal the team victory. Cecilia Costa<\/a> delivered a strong performance at No. 2 singles, earning a straight-set 6-2, 6-2 win to put the Beach on the board. Diana De Simone<\/a> added another point for LBSU with a three-set comeback at No. 3 singles, defeating Anastasia Bozova 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n LMU countered with wins at the top and bottom of the lineup. Lidia Gonzalez earned a 6-2, 6-4 victory at No. 1 singles, while Helene Schnack took a 6-3, 6-2 decision at No. 4. The Lions also picked up points at No. 5 and No. 6 singles to secure the 4-3 team result.<\/p>\n Despite the loss, Long Beach State showed resilience throughout the lineup and pushed the match down to the final courts. The Beach will look to build on its early-season progress as it continues non-conference play in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. – Long Beach State women’s tennis dropped a tightly contested 4-3 decision to Loyola Marymount…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-168655","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\/168655","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=168655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}