{"id":197706,"date":"2026-02-28T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197706\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:49:14","slug":"sykes-sets-freshman-scoring-record-in-shootout-loss-at-cal-poly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197706\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes Sets Freshman Scoring Record In Shootout Loss At Cal Poly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. \u2013 Freshman Gavin Sykes scored 28 points to lead a strong offensive effort for <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a>, but the Beach couldn&#8217;t slow down <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/cal-poly-mustangs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Poly<\/a> in a high-scoring affair as the Mustangs won 102-92. Scoring 22 points in the second half, Sykes hit a baseline jumper to move past Beach legend Lucious Harris, finishing the game with 469 points in his freshman season, now the most ever for a true freshman at Long Beach State (8-21, 4-13 Big West). It was others for the Beach who led the way early. Shaquil Bender had seven quick points,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. \u2013 Freshman Gavin Sykes scored 28 points to lead a strong offensive effort for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-197706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197706","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=197706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}