{"id":230913,"date":"2026-03-22T05:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230913\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:14:17","slug":"no-8-womens-water-polo-dominates-cal-state-fullerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230913\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 8 Women\u2019s Water Polo Dominates Cal State Fullerton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shutting down Cal State Fullerton for over 20 minutes, No. 8 Long Beach State took control for their fourth conference win, dominating in a 22-3 win at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State (13-9, 4-1 Big West) got off to a quick start with <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/chiara-amoroso\/6684\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6684\" target=\"_blank\">Chiara Amoroso<\/a> scoring her first of the day on a power play. Cal State Fullerton (16-12, 1-4 Big West) answered back, but it was all about the Beach after that, scoring four unanswered goals to extend the lead to 5-1 at the end of the first period.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans fought back early to keep the game close, scoring back-to-back goals to cut the margin to 5-3. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/elisa-portillo\/6675\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6675\" target=\"_blank\">Elisa Portillo<\/a> added one on an individual play, and the Beach never looked back, scoring another five to lead 11-3 at half.<\/p>\n<p>Shutting down Fullerton in the second half, Long Beach State added seven in the third and another four in the fourth to dominate the Titans in Big West play, 22-3.<\/p>\n<p>Portillo and Miszewski led all scorers with four goals each, while <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/chiara-amoroso\/6684\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6684\" target=\"_blank\">Chiara Amoroso<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/rita-gurri\/8128\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8128\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Gurri<\/a> both added hat tricks in the win.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/jermonie-billingsly\/8126\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8126\" target=\"_blank\">Jermonie Billingsly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/daniela-quinzada\/8133\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8133\" target=\"_blank\">Daniela Quinzada<\/a>\u00a0added a pair each, and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/angeliki-arroyo\/9925\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9925\" target=\"_blank\">Angeliki Arroyo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/grace-cuozzo\/6661\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6661\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Cuozzo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/zelma-koka\/8129\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8129\" target=\"_blank\">Zelma Koka<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/brooklyn-plomp\/8132\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8132\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Plomp<\/a>\u00a0added one on the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/polina-synytsia\/9987\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9987\" target=\"_blank\">Polina Synytsia<\/a>\u00a0recorded seven saves across three periods, and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/charlotte-echlin\/6680\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6680\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Echlin<\/a> added three in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Beach will continue their homestand, facing No. 4 California on Wednesday at 4 p.m. with live stats provided through TheFOSH.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shutting down Cal State Fullerton for over 20 minutes, No. 8 Long Beach State took control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-230913","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\/230913","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=230913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}