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From LBSU reports<\/span><\/p>\n The luckless Long Beach State women’s basketball team suffered a 57-41 defeat at the hands of host UC Riverside Saturday evening, dropping their eighth game in a row, and falling to 0-6 in conference. <\/span>The last game they won was more than a month ago, on December 22nd<\/sup> against New Mexico State.<\/p>\n LBSU (3-15 overall), which was playing without starting point guard Adelle Walton, finished the game shooting 32.0 percent from the field, while the Highlanders owned a 33.9 field goal percentage. UCR outrebounded The Beach, 43-38.<\/p>\n Senior Kaiti O’Brien led the 49ers with 14 points and nine rebounds, while junior Whitney Fields added nine points. Junior Courtney Jacob finished with eight points, seven rebounds and a team-high four assists.<\/p>\n Long Beach State jumped out to an early 4-0 lead after a layup by O’Brien. The 49ers stayed out front until Kemie Nkele hit back-to-back three-pointers to give the Highlanders an 11-8 advantage with 13:09 to play in the first half. UCR eventually went up by nine at the 3:37 mark, but the 49ers scored six of the final 10 points to cut the deficit to 27-20 at the break.<\/p>\n Both teams shot under 30 percent from the field in the first period, but Nkele sparked the Highlanders as she went 5-for-6 from behind the arc for 17 points. O’Brien paced the 49ers with eight points and four rebounds.<\/p>\n UCR (9-9, 5-1 BWC) started to pull away in the second half, taking a 12-point lead (38-26) at the 11:32 mark. LBSU was unable to recover as the Highlanders ran away with the 57-41 victory.<\/p>\n Nkele scored a game-high 21 points for UC Riverside.<\/p>\n Long Beach State will be back in action next Thursday (Jan. 29) when it closes out a four-game road stretch at Cal State Fullerton. Tip-off is slated for 7pm.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The luckless Long Beach State women’s basketball team suffered a 57-41 defeat at the hands of host UC Riverside Saturday evening.<\/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-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","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=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}