{"id":247998,"date":"2026-04-02T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247998\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:40:08","slug":"long-beach-state-falls-to-uc-santa-barbara-6-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247998\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Falls To UC Santa Barbara, 6-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santa Barbara, Calif. — No. 64 Long Beach State dropped a 6-1 decision to No. 49 UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday at the Arnhold Tennis Center, falling to 11-9 on the season against a higher-ranked Gauchos squad.<\/p>\n

The Beach opened the afternoon by claiming a doubles victory at the top spot, as Cecilia Costa<\/a> and Paulina Martinessi delivered a strong 6-2 win. However, UC Santa Barbara responded by taking the remaining two doubles courts convincingly, securing the opening point with wins at No. 2 and No. 3.<\/p>\n

In singles play, the Gauchos quickly took control, winning five of the six matches to put the contest out of reach. UC Santa Barbara picked up straight-set victories on courts No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5, while also earning a decisive win at No. 1 after a competitive opening set.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State’s lone point came from Daria Malaescu<\/a> at No. 6 singles, where she turned in a composed performance and earned a 6-3, 6-4 victory to prevent the sweep.<\/p>\n

The most tightly contested match of the day came at No. 2 singles, where Diana De Simone<\/a> battled back after dropping the first set to force a third, but ultimately fell 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 in a back-and-forth finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Barbara, Calif. — No. 64 Long Beach State dropped a 6-1 decision to No. 49 UC Santa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-247998","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\/247998","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=247998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}