{"id":225186,"date":"2026-03-18T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225186\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:45:15","slug":"arizona-wins-eighth-thunderbirds-long-beach-states-alejandro-de-castro-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225186\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona wins eighth Thunderbirds; Long Beach State&#8217;s Alejandro de Castro shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 32 Long Beach State finished runner-up at 24 under 840 (282-274-284), just one shot short.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amateurgolf.com\/rankings\/31090\/Alejandro-De-Castro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro de Castro Piera<\/a> claimed individual honors at 13 under 203 (65-65-73), securing a three-shot victory and his first collegiate title. He built his lead with back-to-back rounds of 7 under 65, including completing his second round after a weather delay, before closing with a 73.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s depth proved decisive, placing three players inside the top five. Senior Filip Jakubcik led the team with a runner-up finish at 10 under 206 (67-69-70). Freshman William Wistrand and sophomore Taishi Moto shared third place at 7 under 209, with Wistrand posting rounds of 68-71-70 and Moto carding 70-69-70.<\/p>\n<p>Statistically, Arizona led the field in par-4 scoring with an average of 3.97 and recorded 62 birdies, the second-most in the field. Jakubcik topped the field in par-4 scoring at 3.80, while Wistrand ranked among the leaders with 15 birdies and the second-best par-5 scoring at 6 under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 32 Long Beach State finished runner-up at 24 under 840 (282-274-284), just one shot short. Long Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[31856,31855,102602,102599,131,133,132,102603,102600,102601],"class_list":["post-225186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-amateur-golf-news","tag-amateurgolf-com","tag-arizona-golf-tournaments","tag-arizona-thunderbirds-intercollegiate-mens-golf-tournament","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-tucson-arizona-golf","tag-tucson-country-club","tag-tucson-golf-tournaments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225186","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=225186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}