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Report and photo courtesy LBSU<\/span><\/p>\n Facing a tough opponent as the season comes to a close, No. 33 Long Beach State fell in a very close match to No. 51 Saint Mary’s. Deborah Armstrong was Long Beach State’s winner in singles.<\/p>\n Despite the 6-1 score, the match between the Gaels and the 49ers was extremely close throughout. The 49ers picked up a victory at No. 3 doubles as Cantlay\/Luzar were able to beat Fisher\/Strijbis 8-4, but Saint Mary’s equaled that win with an 8-4 victory at No. 1 doubles over Alawi\/Dallara. In the deciding match, Poorta\/Soper were able to hold off Armstrong and Rachel Manasse 8-6 to take the point.<\/p>\n In singles, Armstrong won decisively at No. 3 over Anna Chikhikvishvili 6-4, 6-0, but the Gaels were able to match that victory with one at No. 4 singles as Claire Soper outlasted Manasse in the first set tiebreaker on the way to a 7-6, 6-0 win.<\/p>\n With the match still very much in doubt, four singles matches went to a third set, but Long Beach State lost all four matches and Saint Mary’s claimed the victory over the 49ers.<\/p>\n Long Beach State plays two more non-conference matches against Pepperdine and LMU to finish out the regular season, and will then head to the Big West Tournament as the top seed from April 30-May 2.<\/p>\n Doubles Isip\/Chikhikvishvili, STM, def. Alawi\/Dallara, LBSU8-4 <\/p>\n Poorta\/Soper, STM def. Armstrong\/Manasse, LBSU 8-6 <\/p>\n Cantlay\/Luzar, LBSU def. Fisher\/Strijbis, STM 8-4<\/p>\n Singles Catherine Isip, STM def. #125 Jaklin Alawi, LBSU 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 <\/p>\n Alex Poorta, STM def. Anais Dallara, LBSU 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 <\/p>\n Deborah Armstrong, LBSU def. Anna Chikhikvishvili, STM 6-4, 6-0 <\/p>\n Claire Soper, STM def. Rachel Manasse, LBSU 7-6 (4), 6-0 <\/p>\n Alisa Spitzer, STM def. Julie Luzar, LBSU 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-0 <\/p>\n Nienke Strijbis, STM def. Sarah Cantlay, LBSU 6-4, 4-6, 6-1<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 49ers had won four straight and 10 of their last 11, but were edged in a close match against St. Mary’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}