LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0For the first time since 2019, the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center will be the stage of the Women’s Water Polo Big West Championships from April 10-12. Long Beach State, for the second year in a row, secured the No. 2 seed and will face No. 7 seed Cal State Fullerton in the quarterfinal round on Friday at 2:30 p.m. Both semifinal and final games will be live on ESPN+, and every game will have live\u00a0stats\u00a0through TheFOSH.net. The winner of the tournament will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships hosted by UC San Diego later in the month.<\/p>\n
After an intense Black and Blue rivalry match on Thursday night to close the regular season, the Beach (15-10, 6-1 Big West) secured the second seed after defeating UC Irvine (12-13, 4-3 Big West) in sudden death overtime, behind a career-high six goals from junior Chiara Amoroso<\/a>. Amoroso scored her 100th career goal, tying the game in overtime, and her 101st to seal the win for the Beach.<\/p>\n Senior Elisa Portillo<\/a> continues to lead the Beach and ranks second in the Big West with 65 goals, 51 assists, and 33 steals. Lucy Miszewski<\/a> follows right behind with 61 goals, 34 assists, and 27 steals. Amoroso showed throughout the season to be a key player for the Beach, scoring 53 goals, third on the team. Freshman Polina Synytsia<\/a>\u00a0impressed in the cage, recording 188 saves, ranking second in the conference, while adding 16 steals and six assists in her debut for Long Beach State.<\/p>\n In the quarterfinal round, LBSU will face the No. 7 seed Cal State Fullerton (17-14, 1-6 Big West) on Friday afternoon. The Titans closed the regular season suffering a tough loss to league champions, No. 1 seed Hawai’i, 20-2. The Titans were led by Destiny Hernandez in the regular season, scoring a team-high 47 goals and recording 35 steals. Emme\u00a0Doube-MacLeod has a team-high 31 assists, while Renske\u00a0Boxsem\u00a0recorded 187 saves and 26 steals.<\/p>\n Both teams faced each other during conference play, as the Beach controlled the Titans at home for a 22-3 win.<\/p>\n If the Beach secures the win over Fullerton, the semifinal will be against the winner of No. 3 seed UC Davis and No. 6 seed CSUN on Saturday at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n First sprint against the Titans is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Friday, with live stats provided through TheFOSH.net.<\/p>\n
Quarterfinals \u2013 Friday, April 10<\/p>\n 10 a.m. \u2013\u00a0(1)\u00a0Hawai’i vs.\u00a0(8)\u00a0UC Santa Barbara<\/p>\n Noon \u2013\u00a0(4)\u00a0UC Irvine vs.\u00a0(5)\u00a0UC San Diego<\/p>\n 2:30 p.m. \u2013\u00a0(2)\u00a0Long Beach State vs.\u00a0(7)\u00a0Cal State Fullerton<\/p>\n 4:30 p.m. \u2013\u00a0(3)\u00a0UC Davis vs.\u00a0(6)\u00a0CSUN<\/p>\n Semifinals \u2013 Saturday, April 11<\/p>\n 2 p.m. \u2013 No. 1\/8 winner vs. No. 4\/5 winner (Live on ESPN+)<\/p>\n 4 p.m. \u2013 No. 2\/7 winner vs. No. 3\/6 winner (Live on ESPN+)<\/p>\n Final \u2013 Sunday, April 12<\/p>\n 2 p.m. \u2013 Championship (Live on ESPN+)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0For the first time since 2019, the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center will be the stage of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-331848","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\/331848","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=331848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFull schedule for the weekend below:<\/p>\n