{"id":264753,"date":"2026-04-13T00:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:57:08","slug":"long-beach-state-falls-to-hawaii-in-big-west-championship-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264753\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Falls To Hawai\u2019i In Big West Championship \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The562\u2019s coverage of aquatic sports in Long Beach in 2025-26 is sponsored by Watersafe Swim School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a saying that goes, \u201cTo be the champion, you have to beat the champion,\u201d and on Sunday the Long Beach State women\u2019s water polo team had their chance to knock off the reigning champ as they hosted Hawai\u2019i in the Big West Championship Final.<\/p>\n

However, after Hawai\u2019i scored five second-quarter goals Long Beach State wasn\u2019t able to find their footing as they lost 14-9 \u2013 making it three consecutive years the Beach has lost in the Big West Championship versus their island rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLong Beach is an incredible team,\u201d Hawai\u2019i coach James Robinson said. \u201cThey\u2019ve had an incredible season and every time we\u2019ve played them it\u2019s a battle. So, going into it the focus was on us and I\u2019m proud of this group.<\/p>\n

In their opening Big West game against Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State coach said that defense wins championships and it was clear that the Beach wasn\u2019t going to back down after the Rainbow Wahine jumped out to a 2-0 lead after goals by Agatha Weston and Camille Radosavljevic.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State junior Chiara Amoroso answered right back less than 20 seconds later when she scored on a penalty shot after Daniela Quinzada drew the foul. Sophomore Rita Gurri tied the game with her first goal on a 6-on-5 chance as the Beach tied the game 2-2 after the first period.<\/p>\n

The Beach continued to battle as both teams continued their aggressive play leading to back-to-back penalty shots. Hawai\u2019i\u2019s Ema Vernoux gave Rainbow Wahine a 3-2 lead before Elisa Portillo responded to tie the game with her own penalty shot that tied that game with 4:51 left in the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From that point on, Hawai\u2019i went on a 3-0 run as Tara Logan, Weston and Gabrielle Doyle to push the lead to 6-3. With less than a minute left, Amoroso\u2019s second goal made it a two-goal deficit \u2013 but with nine second left in the first half, Ariadna Temprano Xambo scored to push the lead back to three heading into the break.<\/p>\n

Overall, it was a battle between which teams were able to be more efficient with their opportunities and while the Beach had 31 shots compared to Hawai\u2019i\u2019s 27 \u2013 the Rainbow Wahine scored 14 goals to finish the game with an efficient .519 shooting percentage.<\/p>\n

For the Beach, Amoroso and Gurri were bright spots for the LBSU offense as they combined for five goals as the team had a .290 shot percentage in the loss. It was clear Hawai\u2019i wanted to make things difficult for LBSU seniors Portillo, Lucy Miszewski who combined for three goals on 12 shots.<\/p>\n

Miszeski\u2019s first goal didn\u2019t come until there was less than two minutes in the game when the contest was already out of reach. She scored her second in garbage time with less than a minute left in regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hawai\u2019i\u2019s Daisy Logtens was efficient in the cage finishing with nine saves and a .500 shooting percentage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Wahine will now await their NCAA postseason journey when the bracket is announced on Monday at 5 p.m. during the selection show on NCAA.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. The562\u2019s coverage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-264753","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\/264753","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=264753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}