{"id":3052,"date":"2009-10-18T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-h20-polo-niners-fall-to-usc\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T05:13:00","slug":"lbsu-h20-polo-niners-fall-to-usc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-h20-polo-niners-fall-to-usc","title":{"rendered":"LBSU H20 Polo: ‘Niners Fall To USC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ‘Niners needed a win to get off the schneid in the MPSF, but it wasn’t likely to come against USC, the best team in the nation\u2014and despite a valiant effort from oalie Derek Wiebe-Bailey (13 saves) no. 7 Long Beach State lost, 9-4.<\/p>\n

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Joe Sherrin scored a goal in the third period for the 49ers (6-8, 0-3) to make the score 5-3 before USC (17-1, 4-0) scored the next three goals to put the game out of reach. This was the second meeting between these two teams with USC winning the first game, 12-3.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Jeff Greenwood, Kevin Mundia, and Alexsandr Petrovic each scored goals to lead The Beach offensively.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach was trying to upset the top-ranked Trojans at home who have now won 36 straight games at McDonald’s Swim Stadium.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Shea Buckner had a game-high three goals while Anthony Artukovich and Kyle Sterling added two goals each for USC. Goalie Joel Dennerley had 12 saves for the Trojans.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach State’s will face UC Santa Barbara, in another MPSF match next week, for the first of six straight home games at noon on Saturday (Oct. 24). <\/o:p><\/p>\n

USC             <\/span>3 – 1 – 4 – 1 = 9<\/o:p><\/p>\n

LBSU            <\/span>1 – 1 – 2 – 0 = 4 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

From LBSU reports<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Long Beach State couldn’t get it done against top-ranked USC, falling 9-4.<\/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-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","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=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}