LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Leading wire to wire, No. 8 Long Beach State defeated No. 7 LMU in an exhibition game at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center on Friday afternoon, 10-7, in their last test before the conference championship.<\/p>\n
Long Beach State (15-10) opened with a strong first quarter, scoring three unanswered goals with Chiara Amoroso<\/a>, Rita Gurri<\/a>, and Elisa Portillo<\/a>, while Polina Synytsia<\/a>\u00a0secured the team on defense.<\/p>\n LMU (21-4) answered back in the second, capitalizing on two power plays before Grace Cuozzo<\/a> scored on a turnover, extending the lead to 4-2. A late goal by the Lions shortened the gap at halftime as they trailed the Beach, 4-3.<\/p>\n The second half started with both teams trading goals before the Beach extended the lead to 7-4, after back-to-back goals by Portillo and\u00a0Jermonie Billingsly<\/a>.<\/p>\n LBSU opened the fourth quarter with a three-goal run to take control over LMU in the final frame, leading 10-4 with 4:18 left. The Lions answered back with their own 3-0 run to close the gap, but without much time left in the game, the Beach controlled the game to a 10-7 win in an exhibition match and their final test before the conference championships.<\/p>\n Chiara Amoroso<\/a> led the team with a hat trick, while Polina Synytsia<\/a>\u00a0recorded eight saves, dished out two assists, and had three steals.<\/p>\n The Beach now waits for final seedings for the Big West Championship starting Friday, April 10 at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Leading wire to wire, No. 8 Long Beach State defeated No. 7 LMU in an exhibition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-252999","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\/252999","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=252999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}