{"id":63616,"date":"2025-11-21T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/63616\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:10:06","slug":"long-beach-state-falls-68-55-to-san-francisco-in-hard-fought-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/63616\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Falls 68-55 to San Francisco in Hard-Fought Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> Women&#8217;s Basketball faced off against <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/san-francisco-dons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a>, delivering a competitive performance before succumbing to a late-game scoring drought that resulted in a 68-55 loss. The team showed resilience through three quarters, led by strong individual efforts from JaQuoia Jones-Brown and Brynna Pukis. Despite being within striking distance at the end of the third quarter, the Beach couldn&#8217;t maintain momentum, shooting poorly in the final period, which severely hindered their comeback efforts.<\/p>\n<p> By the NumbersLong Beach State was down by just five points at the end of the third quarter (54-49).JaQuoia Jones-Brown recorded a double-double with 20 points and 12 rebounds. State of PlayThe Beach is now 0-5 for the season after the latest loss.They will play against Oregon State next on November 23, aiming to turn their season around. What&#8217;s Next<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State will need to address their fourth-quarter struggles as they prepare to face Oregon State, seeking to secure their first win of the season and improve their overall performance.<\/p>\n<p> Bottom Line<\/p>\n<p>The Beach&#8217;s failure to capitalize on scoring opportunities in the final quarter highlights a critical area for improvement. Maintaining offensive consistency throughout all four quarters will be essential for achieving success moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Women&#8217;s Basketball faced off against San Francisco, delivering a competitive performance before succumbing to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-63616","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\/63616","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=63616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}