{"id":65751,"date":"2025-11-22T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65751\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:05:11","slug":"mens-water-polo-secures-second-straight-big-west-championship-final-with-a-11-8-win-over-uc-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65751\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Water Polo Secures Second Straight Big West Championship Final With A 11-8 Win Over UC San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

IRVINE, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A fantastic defensive effort by Joe Jenness<\/a> and an inspired afternoon by Gabi Acosta<\/a> led (1) Long Beach State to their second straight Big West Championship final after defeating (4) UC San Diego, 11-8.<\/p>\n

UC San Diego (21-10) got on the board quickly to start the semifinals. Long Beach State (17-8) tied things with sophomore Gabi Acosta<\/a>, but the Tritons answered back to lead once again. Goals by Zalan Nagy and Sandro Pueyo gave the Beach the early lead after the first period, 3-2.<\/p>\n

The second quarter was all about Long Beach State with three straight goals from\u00a0Toring\u00a0Staney, Alec Johnson<\/a>, and a beautiful backhand by Acosta, extending the Beach\u00a0lead\u00a0to 6-2 with 1:29 left in the first half. UCSD scored a late goal to shorten the lead, with LBSU leading 6-3 at halftime.<\/p>\n

The Beach continued to push the momentum of the game, scoring on a counterattack followed by Acosta adding another to the board as LBSU led 8-3 in the third. A massive penalty shot save by Joe Jenness<\/a> led to a Marc\u00a0Frigola\u00a0goal to make it 9-3. The Tritons found the back of the net late in the third.<\/p>\n

The Tritons pushed a 3-0 run to cut the margin to 9-7. A goal by Harper Stewart<\/a> kept the Beach with a three-goal lead with two minutes left. UCSD added another, but Acosta’s fourth goal of the game gave LBSU an 11-8 lead with 55 seconds left. A series of three straight blocks by the Beach defense secured their second straight Big West Championship final appearance. Jenness finished the game with a career-high 14 saves, and Acosta scored a team-high four goals to lead the Beach on the day.<\/p>\n

No. 1 seed Long Beach State awaits their next opponent between (2) UC Santa Barbara and (3) UC Davis. Ball drops at Noon for the Big West Championship final, live on ESPN+, with live stats through TheFOSH.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVINE, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A fantastic defensive effort by Joe Jenness and an inspired afternoon by Gabi Acosta led (1) Long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-65751","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\/65751","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=65751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}