{"id":178996,"date":"2026-02-15T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/178996\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:53:13","slug":"no-13-fresno-state-defeats-no-7-long-beach-state-on-day-2-of-the-barbara-kalbus-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/178996\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 13 Fresno State Defeats No. 7 Long Beach State On Day 2 Of The Barbara Kalbus Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-end=\"535\" data-start=\"369\">IRVINE, Calif. \u2013 No. 13 Fresno State led No. 7 Long Beach State wire-to-wire to secure a 13-6 win on day two of the Barbara Kalbus Invitational hosted by UC Irvine.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"771\" data-start=\"537\">Fresno State (8-6) opened a 4-1 lead despite a beautiful bar-in by freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/angeliki-arroyo\/9925\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9925\" target=\"_blank\">Angeliki Arroyo<\/a>. Long Beach State (7-7) fought back at the end of the quarter to cut the margin to 4-3 after goals from <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/daniela-quinzada\/8133\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8133\" target=\"_blank\">Daniela Quinzada<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/brooklyn-plomp\/8132\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8132\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Plomp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1011\" data-start=\"773\">A strong start by the Beach early in the second quarter tied the game as <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/elyana-goren\/6664\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6664\" target=\"_blank\">Elyana Goren<\/a> added her first of the day. The Bulldogs answered with a five-goal run to extend the lead, 9-4. Goren added another, but LBSU trailed 9-5 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1267\" data-start=\"1013\">The second half started with Fresno State in control once again, scoring two goals to open an 11-5 lead with 6:02 left in the third. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/jermonie-billingsly\/8126\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8126\" target=\"_blank\">Jermonie Billingsly<\/a> got one past the Bulldogs&#8217; defense, but another goal by Fresno State closed the third period, 12-6.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1447\" data-start=\"1269\">In the final period, the Beach created several opportunities but was stopped by Katelyn Mobley, who led the Bulldogs with 13 saves and secured a 13-6 win over Long Beach State.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1656\" data-start=\"1449\">The Beach will now face No. 12 UC Irvine in the seventh-place game of the Barbara Kalbus Invitational on Sunday at 9\u00a0a.m. at the Anteater Aquatics Complex, with live stats provided through TheFOSH.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVINE, Calif. \u2013 No. 13 Fresno State led No. 7 Long Beach State wire-to-wire to secure a 13-6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-178996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178996","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=178996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}