{"id":4696,"date":"2009-02-15T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-women-s-basketball-on-season-s-first-win-streak\/"},"modified":"2009-02-15T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T07:05:00","slug":"lbsu-women-s-basketball-on-season-s-first-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-women-s-basketball-on-season-s-first-win-streak","title":{"rendered":"LBSU Women’s Basketball On Season’s First Win Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From LBSU reports<\/span> <\/p>\n

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The Long Beach State women’s basketball team pulled ahead mid-way through the second half to down Texas-Pan American, 78-58, in a non-conference game Saturday evening at the Walter Pyramid.<\/p>\n

The 49ers (7-17) have now won three of their last four games and picked up back-to-back victories for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

The Beach shot a season-high 54.4 percent from the field, while holding UTPA to a 41.1 field goal percentage. LBSU also held a slight advantage on the boards, 32-29.<\/p>\n

Junior Whitney Fields led all scorers with 23 points (11-for-19) to go along with nine rebounds. Classmate Lauren Sims, who had scored 21 points in each of the last three games, finished the evening with 22 on a 7-for-11 performance, including 3-of-5 from behind the arc. Freshman Adelle Walton had eight assists, while turning the ball over just twice.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State got on the board first with a 3-pointer by Walton, but UTPA responded by jumping out to an 8-5 advantage at the 17:08 mark. The Broncs stayed out front until Sims hit a three, giving LBSU an 18-17 lead with 10:31 to play. The two teams went back and forth before The Beach used a 12-4 run, capped by a Walton jumper with 6:10 on the clock, to go up by seven at 30-23.<\/p>\n

UTPA (12-12) slowly chipped away, however, and pulled ahead 35-33 in the final 30 seconds, but sophomore Ashley Bookman hit a jumper with the clock winding down to head into the break tied up at 35-35.<\/p>\n

The 49ers posted an impressive 55.6 field goal percentage in the first half and were led by Fields’ 11 points on 5-for-8 from the field.<\/p>\n

With LBSU leading early in the second half, the Broncs eventually evened the playing field at 51-51 on a jumper by Epiphany Smith, but Bookman came back down the court to put the 49ers on top for good with a layup at the 10:46 mark. Long Beach State’s defense took over from there as UTPA scored just seven points in the final 10 minutes, allowing the 49ers to run away with the 78-58 victory.<\/p>\n

Smith led the Broncs with 15 points, while Rachel Hester finished with 13.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State resumes Big West Conference action next week when it welcomes UC Riverside to the Walter Pyramid on Friday, Feb. 20, for a 7 p.m. showdown.<\/p>\n

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With a big nonconference victory, the 49ers have this season’s first streak going.<\/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-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","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=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}