{"id":91615,"date":"2025-12-12T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:54:12","slug":"beach-battle-early-before-portland-pulls-away-in-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91615\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Battle Early Before Portland Pulls Away In Second Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Long Beach State women&#8217;s basketball returned to the Pyramid on Thursday night for a nonconference matchup against Portland, opening the game with composure and matching the Pilots possession for possession throughout the first half. The Beach trailed just 31\u201328 at halftime, supported by a buzzer beater from JaQuoia Jones-Brown and locked-in perimeter shooting from Brynna Pukis. The game shifted after the break, as Portland used defensive pressure and transition opportunities to create a decisive 33\u201312 third quarter that broke open what had been a tightly contested matchup. Despite the widening margin, LBSU continued to produce in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Long Beach State women&#8217;s basketball returned to the Pyramid on Thursday night for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-91615","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\/91615","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=91615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}