{"id":2355,"date":"2010-01-22T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-wbb-niners-can-t-finish-at-irvine\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T06:48:00","slug":"lbsu-wbb-niners-can-t-finish-at-irvine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-wbb-niners-can-t-finish-at-irvine","title":{"rendered":"LBSU WBB: Niners Can’t Finish At Irvine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Report by LBSU<\/span><\/p>\n

The Long Beach State women\u2019s basketball team suffered a 68-61 defeat to UC Irvine in Big West Conference action Thursday evening at the Bren Events Center.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The 49ers fell to 7-11 overall and 3-3 in the Big West, while the Anteaters improved to 6-13, 3-4 BWC.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Beach shot 41.5 percent from the field and was led by senior Karina Figueroa, who had a team-high 18 points and six rebounds. Classmate Ally Wade chipped in 11 points.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The two teams went back and forth in the early going with six lead changes and four tie scores. UCI eventually pulled ahead 27-18 after a 3-pointer by Keyonna Johnson at the 5:08 mark. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The 49ers then used a 9-0 spurt, capped by a Brett Timmons layup, to even the score at 27-27 with 1:39 remaining, but the Anteaters scored the final four points of the period to go up 31-27 at intermission.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach State shot 42.3 percent from the field and held a narrow 21-20 advantage on the boards in the first half. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

UCI came out of the break on fire, scoring seven unanswered points to take a 38-27 advantage at the 18:00 mark. After a 49er timeout, junior Ashley Bookman ended a nearly four and a half minute scoring drought for The Beach with a jumper. The Anteaters stayed out front until LBSU went on a 13-0 run, capped by three free throws by senior Lauren Sims, to tie the game at 51-51 with 5:52 on the clock. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

UC Irvine quickly regained the lead after a Long Beach State turnover and a 3-pointer by Jade Smith-Williams put the Anteaters up by five at the 3:30 mark. The Beach was able to pull back within three, but the home team sank eight free throws down the stretch to hold on for the 68-61 victory.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

UCI shot 32.3 percent from the field and outrebounded the 49ers, 39-37. Smith-Williams led the Anteaters with a game-high 33 points, while Mikah Maly-Karros added a double-double (15 points, 13 rebounds).<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach State returns to the Walter Pyramid on Saturday, Jan. 23, when it plays host to Cal State Bakersfield in its final non-conference game. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. (PST).<\/p>\n

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It was tied with six minutes to go, but the Niners lost it down the stretch on the road at UC Irvine.<\/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-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}