SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013 Leading wire to wire, No. 8 Long Beach State cruised to a 20-5 win over UC Santa Barbara on the road for its second conference win of the season.<\/p>\n
Chiara Amoroso<\/a> and Lucy Miszewski’s<\/a> hat tricks led No. 8 Long Beach State (9-9, 2-1 Big West) to an early 6-0 lead before UC Santa Barbara (1-15, 0-4 Big West) got on the board with one minute left in the first period. Miszewski added her fourth of the day on a power play as LBSU led 7-1 after the first period.<\/p>\n The Beach continued to show strength on defense, leading to multiple counterattack opportunities and extending the lead to 13-1 at halftime. Grace Cuozzo<\/a>, Daniela Quinzada<\/a>, Brooklyn Plomp<\/a>, Hailey Multz<\/a>, and Elisa Portillo<\/a> each added their first goal of the game.<\/p>\n Portillo added her second of the day to open the third quarter as Amoroso and Elyana Goren<\/a> extended the lead to 16-1. The Gauchos ended the Beach’s 10-goal run with back-to-back power-play goals, making it 16-3 with one quarter remaining.<\/p>\n The final quarter started with both teams trading goals early before Gaby Patenaude<\/a> and Plomp added back-to-back goals to extend the Beach’s lead to 19-4. UCSB added one more, but Quinzada’s late goal capped a dominant 20-5 win for Long Beach State on the road.<\/p>\n Chiara Amoroso<\/a> and Lucy Miszewski<\/a> scored a team-high four goals each in the win, while Elisa Portillo<\/a> added a hat trick to go along with a team-high four assists. Polina Synytsia<\/a> held the Gauchos to under 20% shooting as the freshman recorded nine saves and two steals.<\/p>\n The Beach will continue Big West play at No. 14 UC San Diego on March 13 at 6 p.m., live on ESPN+, with live stats provided through TheFOSH.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013 Leading wire to wire, No. 8 Long Beach State cruised to a 20-5 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-211385","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\/211385","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=211385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}