{"id":202345,"date":"2026-03-03T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202345\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:00:12","slug":"gavin-sykes-named-big-west-player-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202345\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Sykes Named Big West Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Gavin Sykes earned Big West Player of the Week honors for the second time this season after two high-scoring performances to help the freshman reach the highest scoring mark for that class in school history. Over two games, Sykes averaged 33.5 points per game including a career-high on Saturday, scoring 39 points at Cal State Bakersfield which included the game-winner in the closing seconds. That came after a 28 point game at Cal Poly for the freshman. In doing so, Sykes moved past Beach legend Lucious Harris for the most points scored at <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Gavin Sykes earned Big West Player of the Week honors for the second time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-202345","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\/202345","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=202345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}