LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Beach Women’s Basketball continues their homestand Saturday afternoon with a matchup against another incoming Big West opponent, Sacramento State. This will be the sixth meeting between the programs. The Beach edged the Hornets 69-68 the last time they met in Sacramento and lead the all-time series 3-2.<\/p>\n
Game:…………………….. Long Beach State vs Sacramento State
\nDate:…………………………………… Saturday, November 15, 2025
\nTime:………………………………………………………………….. 2 p.m.
\nLocation:…………………………………………….. Long Beach, Calif.
\nArena:……………………………………………………. Walter Pyramid
\nTV:…………………………………………………………………….. ESPN+
\nTV Talent:…………………………….Devin Hudson, Jason Schwartz
\nWebcast:……………………………………………………………. ESPN+
\nRadio:……………………………………………………………………. N\/A
\nLive Stats:………………………beachlivestats.statbroadcast.com<\/p>\n
RIGHT AWAY<\/p>\n
\u2022 Long Beach State opened the season with road losses at Wyoming and Colorado State before returning to the Walter Pyramid for its 2025-26 home opener against future Big West opponent California Baptist. The Beach fell 80-63 but battled on the boards, finishing with a 51 to 42 rebounding edge over a CBU team ranked No. 3 nationally in defensive rebounds and No. 9 in total rebounds entering the game.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sophomore\u00a0JaQuoia Jones-Brown<\/a>\u00a0returns as a key contributor after earning Big West All-Freshman Team honors in 2024-25. She closed last season in the starting lineup, averaging 7.1 points and 5.2 rebounds per game, second on the team in rebounding from the guard position, while shooting 41.4% from the field and 33.3% from three. Through the early portion of 2025-26, Jones-Brown is averaging 15.0 points (6th in the Big West) and 7.0 rebounds (6th in the Big West), including 6.0 defensive boards per game, which ranks 3rd in conference. She is also 42nd nationally with one double-double.<\/p>\n \u2022 Sophomore\u00a0Mykelle Richards<\/a>, also an All-Freshman Team honoree last season after starting 20 games and averaging 7.7 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, is expected to miss significant time after suffering a major injury over the offseason.<\/p>\n \u2022 In Richards’ absence, the Beach will look to two returning forwards for expanded frontcourt roles. Sophomore\u00a0Judit Oliva Fernandez<\/a>, who appeared in 25 games last season, and sophomore\u00a0Kennan Ka<\/a>, who played in 20, are expected to take on increased responsibility.<\/p>\n \u2022 Oliva Fernandez showcased her versatility in the home opener against California Baptist and recorded the team’s second double-double of the season and the first of her career with 12 points and 11 rebounds. She is averaging 9.0 points per game, which ranks 24th in the Big West, and 6.3 rebounds per game, which ranks 12th. She is also fifth in the conference with 1.3 blocks per game.<\/p>\n ABOUT THE BEACH<\/p>\n \u2022 Judit Oliva Fernandez<\/a> has had extensive experience playing Internationally for Spain in 3×3 tournaments, an experience that she detailed for the Long Beach State Beach Reads series found at www.longbeachstate.com.<\/p>\n \u2022 Other returning players for Long Beach State in addition to Jones-Brown, Richards, Oliva Fernandez and Ka include sophomore guard\u00a0Christy Reynoso<\/a>, forward\u00a0Brelynn Brice<\/a>\u00a0and center\u00a0Haley Wright<\/a>. The trio combined for 32 games played during the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n \u2022 Two redshirts also return for Long Beach State.\u00a0Tairat Samuel-Afolabi<\/a>\u00a0is a redshirt freshman from Sweden, while\u00a0Lauren Cummings<\/a>\u00a0returns after playing 26 games in 2023-24 before redshirting last season.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Khylee Pepe<\/a>\u00a0gives Long Beach State some veteran experience, joining the program as a senior after spending four years at San Diego State, including one as a medical redshirt in 2024-25. Pepe played in all 35 games for the Aztecs in 2023-24 as a junior, averaging 4.2 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game. In total, Pepe played in 95 games with San Diego State after entering the program as a high school recruit from Bishop Montgomery High School.<\/p>\n \u2022 Long Beach State brought in three high school recruits to join the team this season.\u00a0Rosie Akot<\/a>\u00a0is a 6-2 forward whose intensity was noted by Wright, coming from Adelaide in Australia.\u00a0Morgan Mack<\/a>\u00a0is a 5-10 guard from Lancaster, who finished her career as the top scorer in Hart HS history, while\u00a0Brynna Pukis<\/a>\u00a0 was a four-time first-team all-league selection at Glacier Peak High School in Washington.<\/p>\n \u2022 Long Beach State made two changes to the staff in the offseason.\u00a0Jesse Clark<\/a>\u00a0joined the program as an assistant coach, coming to the Beach from the Academy of Art in San Francisco where he was the head coach for the last two seasons, capping over 25 years in coaching across multiple levels. The Beach added\u00a0Ashley Arroyo<\/a>\u00a0as the team’s Director of Basketball Operations, while\u00a0Jashae Lee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Raru Archer<\/a>\u00a0return for their third seasons on staff with\u00a0Amy Wright<\/a>\u00a0and Long Beach State.<\/p>\n Tipoff is set for Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Walter Pyramid. Fans can follow all the action on ESPN+ and through live stats at beachlivestats.statbroadcast.com.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Beach Women’s Basketball continues their homestand Saturday afternoon with a matchup against another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-53495","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\/53495","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=53495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}