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From LBSU reports<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Long Beach State women’s basketball team (3-12, 0-4 BWC) will take a break from Big West action as it heads to Cal State Bakersfield (9-7) on<\/span> <\/span>Tuesday, Jan. 13, for a 7 p.m. non-conference tilt. The 49ers are looking to snap a season-long five-game losing streak. <\/span>Head coach Mary Hegarty has announced they’ll be doing it without three of their starters, who are now (officially) redshirting: senior and three-time all-Big West selection Karina Figueroa, sophomore LaTorya Barbee and junior transfer Sahfiya Brown will all sit the rest of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n LBSU trails in its short series with CSUB by a 1-0 count. In the first-ever meeting between the two teams last year (Feb. 16, 2008), the Roadrunners pulled out a narrow 65-62 victory in Long Beach.<\/span><\/p>\n Cal State Bakersfield, which is in its second year at the Division I level, has been impressive at home this year with a 5-2 mark at the Icardo Center. In their last five home games, the Roadrunners are 4-1. On the season, senior Christine Kepenekian has paced CSUB<\/span> <\/span>with 17.3 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. Senior Kelley Tarver (14.6 ppg) and junior Phynique Allen (11.5 ppg)<\/span> <\/span>are also averaging double figures for the Roadrunners. Senior Krista Arase, meanwhile, has been the guiding the offense with a team-high 4.3 assists per contest. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taking to the road for a non-conference game, the 49ers will try to break a five-game losing streak.<\/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-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","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=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}