{"id":203444,"date":"2026-03-04T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203444\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:01:14","slug":"beach-hosts-three-match-homestand-welcomes-uc-davis-in-big-west-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203444\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Hosts Three Match Homestand, Welcomes UC Davis In Big West Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{9cf7c655-9b99-4868-9248-87055137a558}{23}\" paraid=\"1773814955\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212;\u00a0Long Beach State returns home this week for a three-match stretch at the Rhodes Tennis Center, looking to build momentum as conference play continues. The Beach\u00a0enters at\u00a05-6\u00a0overall and 2-1 in the Big West, with two nonconference matches ahead of a key league contest to close the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{9cf7c655-9b99-4868-9248-87055137a558}{28}\" paraid=\"1067547129\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The homestand opens Wednesday at 2 p.m. against Seton Hall, followed by an 11 a.m. matchup Thursday against Youngstown State. Big West action resumes Sunday at 11 a.m. when UC Davis visits Long Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{9cf7c655-9b99-4868-9248-87055137a558}{33}\" paraid=\"320010139\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The Beach is coming off a 5-2\u00a0Big West\u00a0road\u00a0loss at\u00a0Hawai&#8217;i. Long Beach State secured the doubles point with wins at No. 2 and No. 3, continuing to show reliability in pairs play. Paulina Franco added a\u00a0three-set\u00a06-3, 6-7 (4), 6-1\u00a0victory at No. 4 singles, but\u00a0Hawai&#8217;i took the remaining courts to seal the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{9cf7c655-9b99-4868-9248-87055137a558}{38}\" paraid=\"708779596\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Doubles consistency\u00a0remains\u00a0a\u00a0strength for the Beach. Translating that early advantage into multiple singles wins will be a focal point this week. Managing the quick turnaround between Wednesday and Thursday will be important.\u00a0At 2-1 in league play, protecting home court against the Aggies is critical as the Big West race begins to take shape.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212;\u00a0Long Beach State returns home this week for a three-match stretch at the Rhodes Tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-203444","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\/203444","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=203444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}