{"id":78448,"date":"2025-12-02T17:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78448\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:38:23","slug":"sykes-leads-long-beach-state-past-san-diego-76-72-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78448\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes leads Long Beach State past San Diego 76-72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Gavin Sykes scored 30 points to lead Long Beach State and secured the victory with a jump shot with 23 seconds remaining as the Beach defeated San Diego 76-72 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sykes shot 12 for 22, including 5 for 9 from beyond the arc for the Beach (2-6). Petar Majstorovic scored 14 points and added six assists and four steals. Shaquil Bender finished 3 of 4 from the field to finish with eight points.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Toreros (3-4) were led in scoring by Brandon Benjamin, who finished with 16 points. San Diego also got 12 points from Juan Sebastian Gorosito. Tim Moore Jr. also had 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>Sykes scored 10 points in the first half and Long Beach State went into halftime trailing 38-34. Sykes scored a team-high 20 points for Long Beach State in the second half, including their game-winning shot in the final minute.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Gavin Sykes scored 30 points to lead Long Beach State and secured the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29643,44171,131,133,132,1817,34875],"class_list":["post-78448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-gavin-sykes","tag-juan-sebastian-gorosito","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-petar-majstorovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78448","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=78448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}