{"id":237997,"date":"2026-03-26T20:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237997\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:08:25","slug":"no-10-beach-volleyball-to-play-four-ranked-opponents-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237997\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 10 Beach Volleyball To Play Four Ranked Opponents In Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State Beach Volleyball will take part in the Texas Invitational on Friday and Saturday this week, a two-day tournament hosted by Texas that matches up some of the best teams from the South and West against each other in Austin.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLong Beach State moved up a spot in the rankings to No. 10 after a 5-1 week at the Big West Challenge, but will get a fantastic test playing four ranked teams in Texas. The tournament will begin for the Beach with a rematch against No. 17 North Florida, who the Beach defeated 4-1 on March 13 at Stanford. In a second match on Friday, the Beach will then take on No. 16 Florida Atlantic at 11:30 a.m. PT.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOn Saturday, Long Beach State will then face No. 12 LSU to begin the day in Texas with a 6 a.m. PT start time, and then take on the hosts, No. 6 Texas at 8:30 a.m. PT. The only live coverage will be a paid stream on the Longhorn Network for the final match against Texas.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLong Beach State is coming off of a successful weekend hosting the Big West Challenge. Now 15-5 overall, Long Beach State&#8217;s only loss came against then No. 3 Cal Poly, and the Beach dispatched No. 13 Hawai&#8217;i 4-1 in the other ranked match for LBSU over the weekend at Rosie&#8217;s Dog Beach.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State Beach Volleyball will take part in the Texas Invitational on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-237997","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\/237997","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=237997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}