{"id":208554,"date":"2026-03-07T05:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208554\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:19:16","slug":"long-beach-poly-takes-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208554\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Poly Takes a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">If <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/long-beach\/long-beach-poly-jackrabbits\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Beach Poly<\/a> was feeling good  fresh off their  7-1 takedown of Valley Christian on Monday, their most recent game may have dampened their spirits a bit. The Jackrabbits fell just short of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/cerritos\/cerritos-dons\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cerritos Dons<\/a> by a score of  6-5 on Thursday. The Jackrabbits have struggled against the Dons recently, as the game was their fourth consecutive lost matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">Long Beach Poly got a good showing from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/long-beach\/long-beach-poly-jackrabbits\/athletes\/will-trunnelle\/?careerid=1t1og90rai900\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Will Trunnelle<\/a>, who   pitched two innings while giving up   no  earned runs off   one  hit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID72371c5b1e7d4b56abfefe3433354578\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6089f6a4-f1e9-46cc-b64f-c5302d41e69d.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID6557bb5b56d74c72ad430fbd61227efa\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\"> Fausto Gaxiola III<\/p>\n<p>03\/05\/26 @ Cerritos103\/02\/26 @ Valley Christian102\/28\/26 vs San Pedro1<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> At the plate, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/long-beach\/long-beach-poly-jackrabbits\/athletes\/fausto-gaxiola-iii\/?careerid=qako6v0m6g5dd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Fausto Gaxiola III<\/a> was cooking despite his team&#8217;s loss,   going 3-for-4 with three  RBI and one  stolen base. He is  on a roll when it comes to  stolen bases, as he&#8217;s  now  snagged  at least one in each of the last three games he&#8217;s  played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">Long Beach Poly&#8217;s defeat dropped their record down to 4-3. As for Cerritos,  the  victory made it two in a row for them and  bumps their season record up to 4-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Both  teams are looking forward to the support of their home crowds in their upcoming games. Long Beach Poly will welcome Katella  at 3:00  p.m.  on Friday. The Knights&#8217; pitching crew has only allowed 3.8  runs per game  this season, so the Jackrabbits&#8217; hitters will have their work cut out for them. As for Cerritos, they will be playing at home against St. Anthony  at 3:00  p.m.  on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Long Beach Poly was feeling good fresh off their 7-1 takedown of Valley Christian on Monday, their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-208554","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\/208554","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=208554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}