{"id":215503,"date":"2026-03-11T22:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:14:24","slug":"two-in-top-five-for-mens-golf-at-r-e-l-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215503\/","title":{"rendered":"Two In Top Five For Men\u2019s Golf At R.E.L. Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Golf put two in the top five at the R.E. Lamkin Invitational at San Diego Country Club, finishing in second place behind the co-hosts, San Diego.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/238773\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Results<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/alejandro-de-castro-piera\/9486\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9486\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro de Castro Piera<\/a> was in the Top 5 for the second time this year, finishing one stroke behind tournament champion Kihei Akina in sole possession of second place with a tournament score of -13 after a second straight round of 70 following his opening round of 63.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jaden-huggins\/9489\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9489\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Huggins<\/a> had his best round of the tournament, climbing into the top five, tied for fourth place overall. Huggins had five birdies with no bogeys on the way to a 5-under-par 67 on Tuesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jack-cantlay\/9484\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9484\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Cantlay<\/a> was also under par on Tuesday with a 68, moving into a tie for 24th, +1 for the tournament.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKrishnav Chopraa had the day&#8217;s final counting score, an even-par 72, while <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/steen-zeman\/9491\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9491\" target=\"_blank\">Steen Zeman<\/a> closed the tournament in a tie for 35th.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a team, Long Beach State finished two strokes behind the co-hosts San Diego, but in front of fellow Top 50 members BYU, San Diego State and Colorado, second overall in the 16-team field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State will get right back into action next week, competing at the Wildcat Intercollegiate hosted by Arizona in Tucson on March 16-17.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Golf put two in the top five at the R.E.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-215503","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\/215503","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=215503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}