{"id":219198,"date":"2026-03-14T04:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219198\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:51:17","slug":"tritons-defeated-by-long-beach-state-in-big-west-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219198\/","title":{"rendered":"Tritons Defeated by Long Beach State in Big West Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tStory Links&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n   &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/harvardlogo.png\" alt=\"Harvard\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p> Harvard<\/p>\n<p>3\/14\/2026 | 4 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 14 (Sat) \/ 4 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/harvardlogo.png\" alt=\"Harvard\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Harvard&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/opponent-history\/harvard\/146\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    LA JOLLA, CALIF. &#8211;\u00a0In a Big West water polo game\u00a0Friday, No. 16 UC San Diego fell to No. 8 Long Beach State\u00a0by\u00a0a score of 19-11 at\u00a0Canyonview Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Tritons dropped to 7-9 overall and 2-3 in the conference. The Beach improved to 10-9 and 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>The scoring commenced in the first quarter with UC San Diego&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/anna-fazioli\/14222\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14222\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Fazioli<\/a> finding the net, but LBSU quickly responded with goals from Daniela Quinzada and Lucy Miszewski. By the end of the first period, LBSU held a slight lead of 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>In the second period, the Beach extended its lead, netting five goals while the Tritons\u00a0netted four to make it 9-7 in favor of the visitors at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The third quarter saw Long Beach State pull away decisively, scoring six goals to UC San Diego&#8217;s two. The Beach owned\u00a0a commanding 15-9 lead entering the final frame.<\/p>\n<p>The Tritons added two more goals in the fourth, but Long Beach State had four to account for the final score.<\/p>\n<p>UC San Diego was paced by <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/emily-cloherty\/14207\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14207\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Cloherty<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/sofia-munatones\/14212\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14212\" target=\"_blank\">Sofia Munatones<\/a>, who racked up four points apiece. Both Tritons finished with two goals and a pair of assists. <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/sydney-munatones\/14213\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14213\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Munatones<\/a> contributed three points with a goal and two assists. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/caitlin-stayt\/14226\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14226\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Stayt<\/a> scored twice.<\/p>\n<p>For LBSU, Elisa Portillo dropped seven points with four goals and three assists.\u00a0Chiara Amoroso,\u00a0Elyana Goren, Miszewski, and\u00a0Quinzada all registered hat tricks as well.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>\nUC San Diego hosts 12th-ranked Harvard in a non-conference match Saturday at 4 p.m. Tickets are available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.evenue.net\/event\/WWP26\/WWP05\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Triton Box Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About UC San Diego Athletics<br \/>\nAfter two decades as one of the most successful\u00a0programs in\u00a0NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a\u00a0member of The Big West in\u00a0NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions\u00a0II\u00a0and III and helped guide\u00a01,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38\u00a0have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world&#8217;s preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: Harvard 3\/14\/2026 | 4 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-219198","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\/219198","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=219198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}