{"id":278547,"date":"2026-04-21T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278547\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:56:23","slug":"elissa-guerrero-named-big-west-freshman-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278547\/","title":{"rendered":"Elissa Guerrero Named Big West Freshman Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/elissa-guerrero\/9494\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9494\" target=\"_blank\">Elissa Guerrero<\/a> was named the Big West Freshman of the Week after clutch hitting over four games for Long Beach State Softball.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nStarting all four games as the team&#8217;s designated player, Guerrero hit safely in all four, hitting .467 on the week with three multi-hit games.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat started with a two-hit game against No. 8 UCLA where she had a season-high three RBI against the Bruins. Guerrero then had two hits each in a pair of wins to begin the Cal Poly series on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFinally, her only hit Sunday was a key one, giving Long Beach State the lead with a solo home run in the ninth inning on the way to a 3-2 victory and a sweep on the road against the Mustangs. Guerrero slugged .667 over the weekend and tied for a team-high six RBI over the four games.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGuerrero joins three-time Freshman of the Week award winner <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/nina-sepulveda\/9495\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9495\" target=\"_blank\">Nina Sepulveda<\/a> as Beach first years who have been honored this season with the award.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Elissa Guerrero was named the Big West Freshman of the Week after clutch hitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-278547","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\/278547","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=278547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}