PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Long Beach State couldn\u2019t keep pace with a hot-shooting team on the road.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Petar Majstorovic scored a career-high 23 points and Long Beach State had four players score in double figures, but Portland shot 70% from the field and 17 for 19 at the free-throw line to hand LBSU a 93-73 nonconference loss on Wednesday night at the Chiles Center.<\/p>\n
Timo George and Joel Foxwell each scored 19 points for the Pilots (5-3), who missed just nine two-point shots all night and went 6 for 12 from 3-point range in the best shooting night the program has seen since December of 1982.<\/p>\n
Portland never trailed and opened a 15-point lead with just over seven minutes left in the first half, but Long Beach (1-6) started to find itself behind 3-pointers from Shaquil Bender and Cole Farrell. An 8-0 run just before the end of the half got the visitors within five, and Portland led by just seven (42-35) at the break.<\/p>\n
LBSU kept the pressure on to start the second half, as a jumper from Gavin Sykes and a three-point play cut the margin to 42-40, but the Pilots never cooled off, scoring on their next five possessions to re-establish a 10-point lead at 52-42.<\/p>\n
Back-to-back baskets in the paint by Foxwell eventually pushed the margin to 79-59 and Long Beach got no closer than a 16-point deficit the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Cole Farrell added 13 points for Long Beach in his return to Portland, while Christian Jones scored 12 and Sykes finished with 11.<\/p>\n
Foxwell added seven assists and five rebounds for Portland, while George grabbed six rebounds. Matus Hronsky had 16 points and James O\u2019Donnell scored a career high 15 for the Pilots, who racked up 26 assists on their 35 made field goals.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
LBSU return home and host San Diego (USD) on Sunday at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Long Beach State couldn\u2019t keep pace with a hot-shooting team on the road. Sophomore Petar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29668,4213,1327,131,133,132,26758,127],"class_list":["post-72141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-big-west-conference","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72141","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=72141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}