{"id":2785,"date":"2009-11-14T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-wbb-wynn-starts-with-a-win-in-myd\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T08:25:00","slug":"lbsu-wbb-wynn-starts-with-a-win-in-myd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-wbb-wynn-starts-with-a-win-in-myd","title":{"rendered":"LBSU WBB: Wynn Starts With A Win In ‘Myd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos by John Fajardo<\/span><\/p>\n

The Long Beach State women’s basketball team officially kicked off the Jody Wynn era with a 76-68 victory over three-time defending Southwestern Athletic Conference champion Prairie View A&M in both teams’ season opener Friday evening at the Walter Pyramid. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Not only was it the first career win for 49er head coach Jody Wynn, but it was also LBSU’s first season-opening victory since the 2004-05 campaign when The Beach defeated Montana. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach State shot an impressive 51.0 percent from the field, while holding the Panthers to just 39.4 percent. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Playing in her first game since March 12, 2008, senior Karina Figueroa led the 49ers with a double-double, netting 23 points and dishing out a career-high tying 10 assists. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Figueroa now has 1,007 career points, making her the program’s 21st 1,000-point scorer. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Senior Lauren Sims added 20 points as she went 6-for-9 from beyond the arc, tying the school’s second-best mark for 3-pointers made in a game. Classmate Whitney Fields also finished in double figures with 12 points, while junior Ashley Bookman grabbed a team-high eight rebounds. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The first half was a game of runs as there were eight lead changes and three tie scores. Prairie View A&M got on the board first, but the 49ers went on to score nine unanswered points to go up 9-2 at the 16:25 mark. The Panthers then responded with a 14-0 run of their own to take their largest lead of the game at 16-9 with 13:02 to play. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sims eventually ended a nearly five-minute scoring drought for LBSU by draining a 3-pointer with 11:29 on the clock. That kicked off an 11-0 49er run which put The Beach up 20-16 at the 8:51 mark. The two teams then went back and forth with PVAMU holding on down the stretch to take a narrow 34-32 lead into the break. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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The 49ers took control in the second half as Sims opened the action with back-to-back 3-pointers, putting The Beach on top, 38-34. LBSU stayed in command and took a 12-point lead (48-36) on a Fields layup with 14:31 to play. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Panthers then started to chip away, closing the gap to 61-57 on consecutive jumpers from Dominique Smith. Prairie View A&M eventually tied the game at 66-66 with just under four and a half minutes to go, but Figueroa responded by sinking six straight free throws to put The Beach back up, 72-66. Figueroa then sealed the victory as she completed a three-point play with 56 seconds on the clock. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Gaati Werema led the Panthers with 25 points and 12 rebounds, while Candice Thomas chipped in 18 points. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach State returns to action on Monday, Nov. 16 when it entertains Loyola Marymount at the Walter Pyramid. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. (PST).<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Report by LBSU<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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All crappy headline puns aside, the Jody Wynn era got off on the right foot, with an eight-point win over a quality opponent that saw the 49ers shoot over 50-percent from the field\u2014and check out these great photos from the game taken by John Fajardo.<\/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-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","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=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}