{"id":2732,"date":"2009-11-19T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-men-s-h2o-polo-playoff-life-on-the-line-pacific\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T06:01:00","slug":"lbsu-men-s-h2o-polo-playoff-life-on-the-line-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-men-s-h2o-polo-playoff-life-on-the-line-pacific","title":{"rendered":"LBSU Men&#8217;s H2O Polo Playoff Life On The Line @ Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial; font-size:10pt; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; \"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Fresh off their&nbsp;upset of No. 6 Loyola Marymount, the No. 8 Long Beach State (9-11, 1-6) men&#8217;s water polo team will travel to No. 15 Pacific (13-14, 0-7) to take on the Tigers Saturday afternoon at 12:00 p.m. at the Pacific Tiger Campus Pool. The game, the last of the regular season, will determine if the 49ers will compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament next weekend. Saturday&#8217;s match-up is the first of the season for LBSU and Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Last week, the Beach pulled off a upset of No. 6 LMU in their final home game of the season and senior night. Long Beach State was able to hold off a late charge by the Lions in the fourth quarter to even the series with LMU and go 1-1 against the Lions this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-wpolo\/mtt\/petrovic_alexsandr00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Alexsandr Petrovic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">, the 49ers leading scorer, recorded a hat trick to lead 49ers and is the twelfth time this season he has led The Beach in scoring. Seniors&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-wpolo\/mtt\/greenwood_jeff00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Jeff Greenwood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-wpolo\/mtt\/koeppen_justin00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Justin Koeppen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">&nbsp;each scored goals and&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/sports\/m-wpolo\/mtt\/wiebebailey_derek00.html\" style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #444444; text-decoration: underline; \"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Derek Wiebe-Bailey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">&nbsp;completely shut down the prolific scorers form LMU for much of the game to propel the 49ers to victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">For Pacific, sophomore Tom Koning, who is the MPSF&#8217;s sixth leading scorer with 48 goals in 27 games this season, leads Pacific. Goalie David Andrus is ninth in goalie saves on the MPSF saves list with 134.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Reports From LBSU<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 8 LBSU men&#8217;s water polo will travel to No. 15 Pacific on Saturday afternoon to determine if the 49ers will compete in the MPSF Tournament next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}