{"id":507542,"date":"2026-10-25T14:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507542\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:32:34","slug":"long-beach-state-drops-contest-to-uc-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507542\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Drops Contest To UC Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013 The No. 9 Long Beach State men’s water polo team fell 13-8 to No. 12 UC Santa Barbara in Big West play at Santa Barbara High School on Saturday afternoon.
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\nThough Long Beach State earned 13 power play opportunities, UC Santa Barbara stopped the Beach on all but two of their extra man advantages. Additionally, the Gauchos posted a .406 shooting clip and held the Beach to a .320 percentage.
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\nUC Santa Barbara (20-9, 2-1 Big West) got the first goal of the afternoon, but Federico Gulisano<\/a> picked right back up where he left off and quickly put Long Beach State (15-7, 1-2 Big West) on the board to tie the game 1-all. The two teams each added one more goal in the quarter with Zal\u00e1n Nagy scoring for the Beach.
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\nThe Gauchos opened the second period with three-straight goals as they took a 6-3 lead into the break. Harper Stewart<\/a> netted the lone goal of the quarter for the Beach.
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\nWilliam Whitstone<\/a> held strong in goal as Artur Diaz<\/a> and Marc Frigola scored in the third quarter to cut Long Beach State’s deficit to two with eight minutes left to play, 7-5.
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\nUCSB scored the first two goals of the fourth quarter before taking a 12-6 advantage with 2:15 left in the final period. The Beach got a pair of goals in the final minutes but ultimately fell 13-8 to the Gauchos on Saturday afternoon.
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\nOF NOTE<\/p>\n


\n\tWilliam Whitstone<\/a> collected nine saves in goal for the Beach.
\n\tMarc Frigola and Harper Stewart<\/a> both scored a pair of goals, while six different Long Beach State players scored in the contest.
\n\tThe Beach are now 58-52 all-time against the Gauchos. <\/p>\n

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\nUP NEXT<\/p>\n


\n\tLong Beach State heads to California Baptist for a Big West contest\u00a0on Saturday, October 31. First sprint is set for 12 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013 The No. 9 Long Beach State men’s water polo team fell 13-8 to No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-507542","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\/507542","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=507542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}