{"id":178506,"date":"2026-02-15T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/178506\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:08:07","slug":"beach-falls-at-uc-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/178506\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Falls At UC Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAVIS, Calif. \u2013 Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/gavin-sykes\/9440\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9440\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> returned to form for Long Beach State, scoring 18 points, but the Beach didn&#8217;t have an answer for a superb first half from UC Davis in a 71-54 defeat on the road Saturday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUC Davis (15-11, 8-7 Big West) led wire-to-wire after a fast start, opening the game on a 6-0 run. Long Beach State (8-18, 4-10 Big West) got on the board with a pair of threes from Sykes, and would eventually tie the game at 16-16 with just over 12 minutes to play in the first half.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAn 11-0 run from the Aggies at that point reestablished control of the game for UC Davis, and the Aggies would go into the half on top 41-27.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State held the Aggies to just 42.3 percent shooting in the second half, and held the Aggies scoreless for nearly a five-minute period defensively, but didn&#8217;t make enough inroads into the UC Davis advantage in that period to affect the outcome.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSykes finished with 18, becoming the second Beach player after Lucious Harris to score 400 points in his freshman season at Long Beach State. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/isaiah-lewis\/9438\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9438\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Lewis<\/a> was the only other player for the Beach in double figures with 10.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State will return home for a pair of home games next week, hosting UC Irvine on Thursday and CSUN on Saturday in the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVIS, Calif. \u2013 Freshman Gavin Sykes returned to form for Long Beach State, scoring 18 points, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-178506","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\/178506","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=178506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}