{"id":44633,"date":"2025-11-08T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44633\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:06:08","slug":"mens-water-polo-secures-big-west-title-with-a-dominant-win-over-no-8-uc-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44633\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Water Polo Secures Big West Title With A Dominant Win Over No. 8 UC Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 9 Long Beach State secured the Big West regular season title after a dominant defensive performance over No. 8 UC Davis, 11-4, at the LBCC Aquatics Complex. Goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/joe-jenness\/9527\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9527\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Jenness<\/a> shut down the Aggies&#8217; offense with 12 saves on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State (15-8, 5-0 Big West) got off to a strong start, leading 4-0 in the first half behind two goals from <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/caleb-francisco\/9521\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9521\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Francisco<\/a> and penalty goals by <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/konstantinos-kapragkos\/9529\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9529\" target=\"_blank\">Konstantinos Kapragkos<\/a>\u00a0and Sandro Pueyo. UC Davis (12-12, 3-2 Big West) scored late in the first to cut the lead to 4-1 after the opening eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies scored two quick goals to shorten the Beach lead to 4-3. Three straight goals by LBSU put the Beach up by four at halftime, 7-3. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/alec-johnson\/9528\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9528\" target=\"_blank\">Alec Johnson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/jason-o-donnell\/9535\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9535\" target=\"_blank\">Jason O&#8217;Donnell<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/gabi-acosta\/9516\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9516\" target=\"_blank\">Gabi Acosta<\/a> scored in the quarter to help Long Beach State.<\/p>\n<p>UC Davis found the back of the net early in the third, but four goals from LBSU secured the win and capped a perfect run through the regular season. With an 11-4 score, the Beach held UC Davis to under 20% shooting and only four ejections.<\/p>\n<p>The Beach will conclude the regular season with a non-conference matchup against No. 12 Loyola Marymount on November 13 at 7 p.m. at the LBCC Aquatics Complex. Long Beach State will honor their six seniors, and live stats will be provided through TheFOSH.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 9 Long Beach State secured the Big West regular season title after a dominant defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-44633","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\/44633","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=44633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}