{"id":276117,"date":"2026-04-19T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:56:08","slug":"mustangs-edged-sunday-by-long-beach-state-in-nine-innings-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276117\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs Edged Sunday by Long Beach State in Nine Innings, 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Cal Poly\u2019s best opportunity to seize victory occurred during the eighth after freshman shortstop Leilani Allen led off with a base hit before Cooper followed with a one-out single. Long Beach State reliever Kate Barnett (4-4), however, forced outs from the next two spots in Cal Poly\u2019s lineup to preserve the deadlock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">With Mustang starting freshman righthander Kaylee Davis returning to the circle during the eighth, Guerrero flied a full-count delivery over the center field wall to hand The Beach the lead. The Mustangs, meanwhile, were retired in order by Barnett during the bottom of the ninth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Offensively, Cooper finished 3-for-3 to improve her team leading batting average to .393. Defensively, Byrd (right) recorded 12 of 27 outs in center field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">With two Big West regular season series remaining, Cal Poly visits Hawai\u2019i for a Friday, April 24 doubleheader (5 p.m. PT) and Saturday, April 25 solo matchup (2 p.m.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cal Poly\u2019s best opportunity to seize victory occurred during the eighth after freshman shortstop Leilani Allen led off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-276117","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\/276117","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=276117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}