LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 11 Long Beach State\u00a0split on the final day of the Long Beach State Invitational, falling to No. 9 Loyola Marymount, 4-1 and cruising to a 5-0 victory over Santa Clara.<\/p>\n
Against the\u00a0Lions, the Beach took the lead after winning the second flight comfortably with Demi Wagdy<\/a> and Tineke Hinton<\/a>, 21-12\/21-11. LMU (9-4) rallied back as Long Beach State (7-3) took two flights to three sets,\u00a0with Malia Gementera<\/a>\/Taylor Hagenah<\/a> and Victoria Henkel<\/a>\/Mahala Esser<\/a>\u00a0ultimately both losing in three.\u00a0<\/p>\n Long Beach State bounced back to take down Santa Clara (8-4)\u00a0in the final match of the\u00a0tournament.\u00a0The Beach controlled the action, and playing together for the first time on the weekend, Sammy Okano<\/a> and Nicole Lankton<\/a> finished off the sweep with a 21-19, 22-20 win over Kawena Chillingworth and Ava Stoddard.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Beach will head next to Northern California playing in a tournament hosted by Stanford on March 13 and 14.<\/p>\n #11 Long Beach State\u00a01,\u00a0#9 Loyola Marymount 4<\/p>\n 1)\u00a0Tanon Rosenthal\/Anna\u00a0Pelloia\u00a0(LMU)\u00a0def.\u00a0Malia Gementera<\/a>\/Taylor Hagenah<\/a> (LBSU)\u00a027-25,\u00a019-21, 15-12<\/p>\n 2)\u00a0Tineke Hinton<\/a>\/Demi Wagdy<\/a> (LBSU) def.\u00a0Magdalena Rabitsch\/Ines Piret (LMU)\u00a021-12, 21-11<\/p>\n 3)\u00a0Chloe Hooker\/Jaeya Brach (LMU) def.\u00a0Kiara Edwards<\/a>\/Savannah Standage<\/a> (LBSU) 21-13, 21-14<\/p>\n 4)\u00a0Maja Kruczek\/Josefine\u00a0Schaelkel\u00a0(LMU)\u00a0def.\u00a0Victoria Henkel<\/a>\/Mahala Esser<\/a> (LBSU)\u00a021-23, 21-12, 15-12<\/p>\n 5)\u00a0Ellie Davis\/Katie McAlister (LMU) def.\u00a0Brooke Wooley\/Madi Collins<\/a> (LBSU)\u00a021-12, 21-10<\/p>\n Order of Finish:\u00a02, 5, 3, 4, 1<\/p>\n #11 Long Beach State\u00a05,\u00a0Santa Clara\u00a00<\/p>\n 1)\u00a0Malia Gementera<\/a>\/Taylor Hagenah<\/a> (LBSU) def.\u00a0Sadie Snipes\/Sammy Wood (SCU) 21-15, 21-13<\/p>\n 2)\u00a0Tineke Hinton<\/a>\/Demi Wagdy<\/a> (LBSU) def.\u00a0Avery Cukjati\/Teagan Wilson\u00a0(SCU)\u00a021-18, 21-13<\/p>\n 3)\u00a0Kiara Edwards<\/a>\/Savannah Standage<\/a> (LBSU)\u00a0def. Noelle Niederman\/Mandy Hansen (SCU) 21-12, 21-6<\/p>\n 4)\u00a0Victoria Henkel<\/a>\/Mahala Esser<\/a> (LBSU) def.\u00a0Alexandra Urbina\/Ciara\u00a0Cantlen (SCU) 22-20, 21-17<\/p>\n 5)\u00a0Sammy Okano<\/a>\/Nicole Lankton<\/a> (LBSU) def. Kawena Chillingworth\/Ava Stoddard (SCU) 21-19, 22-20<\/p>\n Order of Finish:\u00a03, 1, 2, 4, 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 11 Long Beach State\u00a0split on the final day of the Long Beach State Invitational, falling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-209999","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\/209999","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=209999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}