{"id":91417,"date":"2025-12-12T06:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91417\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:28:06","slug":"long-beach-state-falls-to-portland-after-rough-third-quarter-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91417\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Falls to Portland After Rough Third Quarter \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by\u00a0Marilyn Bohl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was another tough night at the office for Long Beach State women\u2019s basketball, as the Beach allowed 63 points in the second half to fall 94-58 against Portland (5-5) on Thursday night at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid.<\/p>\n

The Beach are now 0-9 on the season, and now have four losses by 30 points or more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know everybody looks at the record, and I told them this after the last game, not every 0-7 or 0-8 team is an 0-7 or 0-8 team,\u201d said LBSU head coach Amy Wright of the team\u2019s record. \u201cSchedules matter. Players that you have available matter \u2026 Every game starts 0-0, I don\u2019t care what their record is, I don\u2019t care what our record is. I think the mindset in practice is probably equivalent to what you see in the game. It\u2019s really, really good to start, and then it fizzles toward the end. So it\u2019s a matter of keeping them locked in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophomore JaQuoia Jones-Brown again carried the scoring load for the Beach with 25 points, finishing a rebound shy of a double-double. Freshman Brynna Pukis was 3\/3 from beyond the arc to chip in 11 points, while Christy Reynoso chipped in seven points off the bench. Junior Kennan Ka led the squad with six assists.<\/p>\n

The visiting Pilots capitalized on 18 offensive rebounds, holding a 21-4 edge in second-chance points and a 50-22 edge on points in the paint.<\/p>\n

Turnovers were also an issue for Long Beach State, as their 22 giveaways helped Portland take 81 field goal attempts, compared to just 56 shots for the Beach.<\/p>\n

Things were close at intermission, as a 6-0 Beach run made it a 31-28 Portland lead at halftime, but the visitors took off in the third quarter and never looked back.<\/p>\n

Portland shot over 52 percent in each of the last two quarters, winning the third by a margin of 33-12 to take a 64-40 lead into the final period. The Pilots added 30 more points over the final 10 minutes to pull away for the 36-point victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we put two good quarters together, and then came out in the third quarter and gave up 10 points in one minute,\u201d said Wright. \u201cAnd that\u2019s just a matter of being ready to play and follow the game plan \u2026 We put two quarters together, and you would think that would have carry-over, but right now, we\u2019re a two quarter team, and we\u2019re fighting to get to two-and-a-half, and then we\u2019ll fight to get the three, then we\u2019ll fight to get three-and-a-half, then we\u2019ll fight to get to get four, and that\u2019s when we\u2019ll see more wins come up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Beach will benefit from having eight days off before their next game, and Coach Wright said she wants her team to get in the gym taking shots. Jones-Brown has proven to be a reliable scorer, but Wright admits that LBSU needs others to put the ball in the basket more consistently.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LBSU will be back in action next Saturday when they travel to play No. 4 UCLA at 2 p.m. inside Pauley Pavilion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by\u00a0Marilyn Bohl. It was another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-91417","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\/91417","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=91417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}