{"id":85023,"date":"2025-12-07T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85023\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:07:11","slug":"tritons-roll-as-turnovers-pile-up-for-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85023\/","title":{"rendered":"Tritons roll as turnovers pile up for The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image0-1-800x400.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-ceris-m-2_1 size-ceris-m-2_1 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>LBSU women&#8217;s basketball huddles together during a 75-45 blowout loss on the road to UC San Diego on Saturday, Dec. 6. Sean Bowen | Long Beach Current<\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State women\u2019s basketball remains winless on the season, after 75-45 to UC San Diego on the road on Saturday, Dec. 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LBSU sophomore forward <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/judit-oliva-fernandez\/9446\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judit Oliva Fernandez<\/a> hit a three in the first shot of the game, giving The Beach their only lead of the contest before the Tritons ended the opening quarter on a 20-3 run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 39-16 at the half, The Beach (0-8) struggled early to match the Tritons (5-4) offensively. LBSU shot 27% from the field compared to UCSD\u2019s 56%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the jump, we were supposed to have some different movements,\u201d LBSU head coach Amy Wright said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t buy into it during the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Triton redshirt junior <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/rosa-smith\/14022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rosa Smith<\/a> led all scorers with 27 points while also racking up five assists. UCSD junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/erin-condron\/14016\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erin Condron<\/a> also chipped in with 19 points, seven rebounds and five assists in the victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Condron\u2019s] an impact player,\u201d Wright said. \u201cWe wanted to try and take her out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Beach kept the scoring margin relatively close in the second half, being outscored by just seven, but could not cut away at their massive deficit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LBSU freshman guard <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/brynna-pukis\/9451\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brynna Pukis<\/a> led The Beach with 12 points, while Fernandez joined her in double figures with 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, LBSU could not move the ball whatsoever without giving it away, as Fernandez accrued six turnovers while sophomore guard and The Beach\u2019s leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/jaquoia-jones-brown\/9444\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JaQuoia Jones-Brown<\/a> had a team-high eight giveaways.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur defense is good, not great, but we are losing our identity on the offensive end,\u201d Wright said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In search of the first win of the season, LBSU\u2019s next matchup is at home on Thursday, Dec. 11, against Portland University. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LBSU women&#8217;s basketball huddles together during a 75-45 blowout loss on the road to UC San Diego on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-85023","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\/85023","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=85023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}