{"id":220953,"date":"2026-03-15T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:39:18","slug":"mens-golf-off-to-wildcat-intercollegiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220953\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Off To Wildcat Intercollegiate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Golf continues a busy March with the second of three tournaments in the month, heading to Tucson to take part in the Wildcat Intercollegiate starting on Monday, March 16.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Beach is coming off an excellent performance at the R.E. Lamkin Invitational at the San Diego Country Club, where Long Beach State placed second among a 16-team field, finishing in front of three other teams ranked in the Top 50 in BYU, San Diego State and Colorado and finishing behind co-host San Diego.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLeading the way for Long Beach State were seniors <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> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jaden-huggins\/9489\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9489\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Huggins<\/a>. The individual runner-up for the third time in his career, de Castro&#8217;s second-place finish was his sixth Top 5 finish of his career. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jaden-huggins\/9489\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9489\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Huggins<\/a> also finished in the Top 5, climbing into a tie for fourth place with a final-round 67 as both players shot under par in all three rounds from San Diego.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThose two will lead the lineup for the Beach, with <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jack-cantlay\/9484\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9484\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Cantlay<\/a> playing third. The senior also had a strong finish last week with a final-round 68. Graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/steen-zeman\/9491\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9491\" target=\"_blank\">Steen Zeman<\/a> will play fourth, while Krishnav Chopraa rounds out the LBSU lineup.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State climbed to No. 32 in this week&#8217;s rankings, and will face a challenging field as part of the Wildcat Intercollegiate, which will be held at Tucson Country Club. The hosts, Arizona, come in ranked No. 22 in the country, while their rivals Arizona State are ranked No. 5, the best in the field. No. 14 Oklahoma and No. 18 New Mexico join the two Arizona schools in the Top 25, while the Beach leads the remaining 10 schools in the 13-team field ranked in the Top 100.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe entirety of the field features Long Beach State, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Grand Canyon, Hawai&#8217;i, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Oklahoma, Oral Roberts, Pacific, UTEP and UTSA.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLive scoring throughout the tournament will be available through SCOREBOARD at <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/239371\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/239371\/scoring\/team<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State Men&#8217;s Golf continues a busy March with the second of three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-220953","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\/220953","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=220953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}