<\/div>\n <\/p>\n From LBSU reports<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Long Beach State women’s basketball team hung with host Cal Poly, but was unable to pull away late in the game as the 49ers fell to the Mustangs, 74-66, Sunday afternoon at Mott Gym.<\/p>\n Freshman Adelle Walton was 3-for-3 from behind the arc to lead The Beach with a career-high 16 points, while junior Whitney Fields notched her second consecutive double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Sophomore Melanie Lisnock chipped in a season-best 11 points.<\/p>\n Long Beach State (3-10, 0-2 Big West) trailed by just four at 46-42 with 14:39 remaining in the second half. The Mustangs would eventually go up by as many as 13 before the 49ers staged a comeback late in the game. After a three-pointer by Walton, The Beach cut the deficit to six points (69-63) at the 2:08 mark, but the ‘Stangs outscored the 49ers 5-3 in the final minutes to hang on for the win.<\/p>\n LBSU dented the scoreboard first as Walton hit a pair of free throws at the 19:48 mark, but Cal Poly quickly responded, going up 4-2 after a layup by Kristina Santiago. The 49ers tied the game at 4-4 on a Fields jumper before the Mustangs went on a 12-2 run to take the lead for good.<\/p>\n The Mustangs led by as many as 10 points in the first half, but Walton hit a 12-foot jumper with four seconds remaining, giving them a 37-28 lead heading into the break.<\/p>\n Cal Poly (8-5, 1-1 BWC) shot 50.9 percent (29-57) from the field, while holding the 49ers to a 39.0 field goal percentage (23-59).<\/p>\n Kristina Santiago scored a career-high 26 points and Becky Tratter added 15 to lead the Mustangs.<\/p>\n Long Beach State will return to the Walter Pyramid as it hosts the NCAA `Pack the House Challenge’ on Thursday, Jan. 8, when it takes on Big West foe Pacific at 1 p.m. (PST).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite making it a tight game, the 49ers couldn’t get over the hump against host Cal Poly, losing 74-66.<\/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-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","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=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}