{"id":201778,"date":"2026-03-03T05:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201778\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T05:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:59:17","slug":"no-14-arizona-drops-long-beach-state-in-final-game-of-hillenbrand-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201778\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 14 Arizona Drops Long Beach State In Final Game Of Hillenbrand Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. \u2013 Long Beach State jumped out to an early lead, but No. 14 Arizona responded with a big inning of their own on the way to a 12-2 win over the Beach. The Beach finished the Hillenbrand Invitational with a 3-2 record for the weekend, with their only two losses coming to the hosts, Arizona.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State (12-8) after getting shut out in the first meeting with No. 14 Arizona (17-5) got off to a good start in the rematch. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/lina-apodaca\/8587\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8587\" target=\"_blank\">Lina Apodaca<\/a> singled to start the game, and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/avery-weisbrook\/8599\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8599\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Weisbrook<\/a> followed with another hit to put two on.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/priscilla-iniguez\/8594\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8594\" target=\"_blank\">Priscilla Iniguez<\/a> then hit Long Beach State&#8217;s third single in a row to score Apodaca and put runners on the corners. A perfect squeeze then allowed Weisbrook to score, giving the Beach a 2-0 lead after the top of the first.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Wildcats showed their class in the bottom half, as the Beach couldn&#8217;t get their shutdown inning. A pair of infield singles were followed by a bunt single as Tayler Biehl beat out the throw, loading the bases. Squeezing Beach starter <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/isabella-alonso\/9497\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9497\" target=\"_blank\">Isabella Alonso<\/a>, the normally very accurate Alonso issued three walks around a fielder&#8217;s choice, bringing in three runs, and after a pitching change, a Jenna Sniffen single made the score 5-2. The Wildcats then scored three more runs in the inning with the help of an error to take an 8-2 lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA two-run home run added more runs for Arizona in the second inning. The Wildcats then added two more runs in the fourth, finishing their weekend of hosting with five run-rule wins. Weisbrook finished with a pair of hits, going 2-for-2 to lead the Beach.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter three weeks away, Long Beach State returns to the LBSU Softball Complex for a busy week. The Beach hosts San Diego State on Wednesday, March 4 at 5:30 p.m. and then opens up conference play with a three-game series against Cal State Bakersfield beginning on Friday night under the lights.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. \u2013 Long Beach State jumped out to an early lead, but No. 14 Arizona responded with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-201778","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\/201778","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=201778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}