{"id":99794,"date":"2025-12-18T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99794\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:11:09","slug":"long-beach-takes-a-loss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99794\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Takes a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/long-beach\/long-beach-bearcats\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Beach<\/a> extended their losing streak  to four  on Tuesday, dropping them down to 7-7. They had to suffer through  a    73-46 loss at the hands of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/picayune\/picayune-maroon-tide\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Picayune Maroon Tide<\/a>. The Bearcats lost against the Maroon Tide in their previous head to head  back in January, too, but the margin this time around was even wider than the  50-46 score last time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> Long Beach lost  despite a true team effort on offense. The best among them was  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/long-beach\/long-beach-bearcats\/athletes\/neveah-smith\/?careerid=qsij9ulvjqm66\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Neveah Smith<\/a>, who  posted 14  points and three  steals. The team also got some help courtesy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/long-beach\/long-beach-bearcats\/athletes\/donovan-magee\/?careerid=ham2r30j01g99\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Donovan Magee<\/a>, who  scored ten points and five  steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">As for Picayune, the  victory (which was their third in a row) raised their record to 5-3. They have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won three  games by 24  points or more this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Picayune&#8217;s success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/picayune\/picayune-maroon-tide\/athletes\/kelton-stewart\/?careerid=agegaj4ijou99\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Kelton Stewart<\/a> led the charge by  going 6-for-13  en route to 15  points and six  assists. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/picayune\/picayune-maroon-tide\/athletes\/jordan-hawthorne\/?careerid=nor0g1bvr9f55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jordan Hawthorne<\/a> was another key player,  shooting 50% from the field on his way to 14 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Both  teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming  matchups. Long Beach and Moss Point will compete for holiday cheer  at 6:30  p.m.  on Friday. Picayune will take on Petal in a holiday battle  at 7:00  p.m.  on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach extended their losing streak to four on Tuesday, dropping them down to 7-7. They had to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-99794","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\/99794","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=99794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}