{"id":4510,"date":"2009-03-06T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/49ers-clinch-tournament-bye-with-win-over-cal-poly\/"},"modified":"2009-03-06T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T10:45:00","slug":"49ers-clinch-tournament-bye-with-win-over-cal-poly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/49ers-clinch-tournament-bye-with-win-over-cal-poly","title":{"rendered":"49ers Clinch Tournament Bye With Win Over Cal Poly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo35622.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>     Long Beach State won the first of two vital games last night, defeating Cal Poly SLO before visiting UCSB this Saturday to end the regular conference schedule.&nbsp; The 49ers shot just 41.7% in the 63-60 victory, but won the battles of rebounds, turnovers and free throws to defeat the Mustangs.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach also benefited from a solid performance by senior Donovan Morris, who shot 5-11 from the field for a team-high 17 points in 26 minutes off the bench.&nbsp; Don&rsquo;t call it a comeback, but Morris&rsquo; 17 points were his highest single-game total since mid-January, after battling a stress fracture in his foot.&nbsp; Three other 49ers scored in double figures, while Poly&rsquo;s Titus Shelton led the Mustangs with 15 and five boards.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs had their chances as the contest remained close from beginning to end, but Morris scored six points in the final minute &ndash; including four free throws in the last 12 seconds to seal the game for Long Beach State.<\/p>\n<p>The win clinches a bye into the Big West Tournament semifinals for the 49ers, who still have a chance to win a share of the regular season conference championship.&nbsp; If Long Beach State defeats a hot UC Santa Barbara team on Saturday, and Pacific defeats Cal State Northridge, then Long Beach and Northridge would tie for first place.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Barbara has won six of their last seven games, but will host the 49ers this Saturday without guards James Powell and Nick Quick.&nbsp; Powell, the Gauchos&rsquo; leading three-point shooter, was averaging 9.6 points on the season.&nbsp; The 49ers defeated UCSB in early January, 76-64.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach State faced a must-win situation on Thursday night and escaped with a 63-60 win behind 17 from Donovan Morris.<\/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-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}