{"id":65264,"date":"2025-11-22T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65264\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:08:09","slug":"montana-state-defeats-long-beach-state-despite-24-points-from-sykes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65264\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana State Defeats Long Beach State Despite 24 Points From Sykes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 In the first game at the freshly renamed LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> Men&#8217;s Basketball was led by true freshman Gavin Sykes , who scored 24 points, but <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/montana-state-bobcats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montana State<\/a> defeated the Beach 78-72. A close contest throughout, Long Beach State (1-5) and Montana State (3-4) were similar in most statistical categories, but 21 points off of turnovers for the Bobcats proved to be one of the deciding factors. A putback from Cole Farrell gave Long Beach State an early lead at 8-7 with just under five minutes played, but Montana State responded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 In the first game at the freshly renamed LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-65264","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\/65264","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=65264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}