LONG BEACH, Calif. — Long Beach State closed out its home slate with a 5-2 win over UC Irvine on Senior Day at the Rhodes Tennis Center, celebrating the career of Paulina Franco while delivering a strong all-around performance to improve to 12-10 overall and 5-4 in Big West play.<\/p>\n
The Beach set the tone early by securing the doubles point with wins on courts one and two. Cecilia Costa<\/a> and Paulina Franco teamed up for a 6-4 victory at the top spot, a fitting result on Franco’s senior day. Pamela Badillo<\/a> and Thea Jagare<\/a> followed with a decisive 6-2 win at No. 2 to clinch the point, while the third doubles match was left unfinished with Daisy Carpenter<\/a> and Diana De Simone<\/a> leading 5-2.<\/p>\n In singles, Long Beach State won four of six courts to seal the team victory. Cecilia Costa<\/a> delivered a clean performance at No. 2 with a straight-sets 6-4, 6-1 win, and Pamela Badillo<\/a> controlled the deciding third set at No. 5, pulling away for a 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 victory.<\/p>\n Diana De Simone<\/a> added another key point at the top of the lineup, grinding through a three-set battle to win 6-0, 4-6, 6-3. Daisy Carpenter<\/a> provided another point at No. 6 in one of the most competitive matches of the day, rebounding from a first-set loss to win 2-6, 7-6 (7-3), 10-7 in a match tiebreak.<\/p>\n UC Irvine picked up its two points at No. 3 and No. 4 singles. The match at No. 4 featured Franco, who battled through three sets before falling 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 in a tightly contested finish.<\/p>\n The victory capped a meaningful Senior Day for Franco, who contributed to the doubles point and pushed her singles match to the limit. Long Beach State’s depth ultimately proved decisive, with four singles wins and a sweep of completed doubles matches securing the 5-2 result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. — Long Beach State closed out its home slate with a 5-2 win over UC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-289389","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\/289389","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=289389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}