{"id":210388,"date":"2026-03-08T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210388\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:15:07","slug":"long-beach-state-spoils-hawaiis-senior-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210388\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State spoils Hawaii\u2019s senior night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JAMM<\/p>\n

JAMM AQUINO \/ JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM<\/p>\n

Hawaii\u2019s Hunter Erickson drives to the basket against Long Beach State during the second half.<\/p>\n

Gavin Sykes scored 34 points to lead Long Beach State to a 84-75 victory and spoil Hawaii\u2019s senior night at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.<\/p>\n

A crowd of 5,468 saw the Beach score 24 of the final 39 points to also sabotage the Rainbow Warriors\u2019 opportunity to claim a share of their first regular-season title since 2016.<\/p>\n

UH and UC Irvine entered the final day of the regular season tied atop the Big West. UCI defeated UC Davis to clinch the top seed in next week\u2019s eight-team Big West Tournament in Henderson, Nev. The \u2019Bows missed a chance to share the title when their second-half rally ran out of steam.<\/p>\n

The \u2019Bows turned to a full-court press to force six LBSU turnovers in a 4:06 span to turn a double-digit deficit into a 58-55 lead with 11:03 to play.<\/p>\n

It was 60-all when Peter Majstororic hit a jumper over UH point guard Hunter Erickson with 7:45 to play. Isaiah Lewis\u2019 three-point play extended the Beach\u2019s lead to 65-60.<\/p>\n

Later, Sykes hit three 3s in a 1:11 span to end the suspense.<\/p>\n

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UH finishes the regular season 22-8 overall and 14-6 in the Big West. As the second seed, the \u2019Bows will have two byes leading to the semifinals in the Big West Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAMM AQUINO \/ JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM Hawaii\u2019s Hunter Erickson drives to the basket against Long Beach State during the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-210388","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\/210388","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=210388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}