{"id":5181,"date":"2008-12-10T07:11:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T07:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbcc-wbb-vikings-lose-early-lead\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T07:11:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T07:11:34","slug":"lbcc-wbb-vikings-lose-early-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbcc-wbb-vikings-lose-early-lead","title":{"rendered":"LBCC WBB: Vikings Lose Early Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo546344.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p> The Long Beach City College women&rsquo;s basketball team suffered a 55-35 non-conference loss to visiting College of Canyons on Tuesday night at the Hall of Champions Gym.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Vikings (1-8) came out playing tough from the opening whistle. Long Beach sank its first five field goal attempts and thanks to some excellent defense held a 13-5 lead at the 12-minute mark.&nbsp; But a three-pointer by Canyons&rsquo; Samantha Cross with 10:52 to go in the first halted LBCC&rsquo;s scoring run and got the Cougars back on track. Canyons went up 14-13 before the Vikings took their final lead of 18-14 with six minutes left.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>From then it was all Canyons, as the Cougars closed out the first half on a 19-1 run and never looked back.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Sophomore forward Cristina Lajkowicz led LBCC with 15 points and eight rebounds. Freshman forward Karyse Payne chipped in with seven rebounds and four points.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>For Canyons, forward Ashley Wakefield posted a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds and guard Brittney Bradley added 11 points.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Long Beach returns to action on Thursday when it will compete at the three-day Pasadena City College tournament.<\/p>\n<p>From Reports By LBCC&#8217;s Chris Ruiz<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">body {  \tbackground: #FFF;  }  <\/style>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach City College women&#8217;s basketball team has had a problem getting the lead, and now even when they do, they can&#8217;t seem to hold on to it.<\/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-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","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=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}