{"id":2845,"date":"2009-11-12T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbcc-men-s-bball-opening-loss-to-mt-sac\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T05:31:00","slug":"lbcc-men-s-bball-opening-loss-to-mt-sac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbcc-men-s-bball-opening-loss-to-mt-sac","title":{"rendered":"LBCC Men&#8217;s BBall: Opening Loss To Mt. SAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Vikings&#8217; men&#8217;s basketball team has a new head coach in Barry Barnes\u2014but he&#8217;ll have to wait at least a few more days to get his first win with the team, as they dropped their season opener in the Hall of Champions Gym, 77-63, to Mt. SAC.<strong><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:normal\">Sophomore forward Chris Brown scored 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the losing effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Turnovers were costly in the contest, as Long Beach committed 29 turnovers which resulted in 28 Mt. SAC points.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Mounties built a commanding 35-18 lead with 4:48 to go in the first half thanks to a two-minute, 14-2 run. Mt. SAC led by 16 points (44-28) at halftime.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mt. SAC was up 66-48 with 7:25 to go in the second before the Vikings slowly began to chip away.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Long Beach put together a 12-2 run and after a three-pointer by sophomore guard Darrin Kirk, the Vikings trailed by just eight points (68-60) with 3:03 left in the ball game.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But LBCC would get no closer. Mt. SAC outscored the Vikings 11-3 the rest of the game to hold on for the win.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Guard Antonio Biglow led Mt. SAC (2-0) with a game-high 33 points. Forward Josh White came off the bench to score 14 points and 13 rebounds.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For Long Beach (0-1), sophomore guard Leo Arnold totaled 12 points.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Coach Barnes will his next shot at career win No. 1 on Thursday night, as Long Beach hosts Fullerton College in a non-conference game 6pm.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>From LBCC reports<o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings have a new coach, but he&#8217;ll have to wait at least a few more days for his first victory.<\/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-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","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=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}