<\/div>\n From Reports By Long Beach State Sports Information Department<\/span><\/p>\n The Long Beach State women’s basketball team started the season on Sunday afternoon without Karina Figueroa. It showed in the second half as the 49ers were unable to pull off a comeback, falling to San Diego State, 67-59, in their season-opener at the ‘Myd.<\/p>\n LBSU was led by junior Courtney Jacob, who went 4-for-8 from the field and was 5-for-6 from the free-throw line to finish with a team-high 14 points. Classmate Whitney Fields was two rebounds short of a double-double with 13 points (5-for-10) and eight boards, while freshman Adelle Walton chipped in with nine points and four assists.<\/p>\n The Aztecs (2-0) had three players score in double digits and were led by Jerica Williams, who had a game-high 23 points. Paris Johnson added her second double-double in as many games with 14 points and 12 rebounds, while Quenese Davis finished with 16 points.<\/p>\n SDSU used a 14-0 run early in the first half to jump out to an 18-3 lead. Ashley Bookman then ended an eight-minute scoring drought for The Beach with a layup at the 9:51 mark, kicking off a 7-2 run which cut the 49er deficit to 20-10 with 8:08 remaining in the half.<\/p>\n The Aztecs would eventually go back up by as many as 15 points, but LBSU continued to chip away and a layup by Jacob with 20 seconds on the clock brought the 49ers within nine (31-22) at the break.<\/p>\n Long Beach State, which shot just 22.2 percent in the first half, started to find its rhythm in the second period, shooting 41.9 percent from the field. After a three-pointer by junior Ally Wade, SDSU saw its lead diminish to 46-42 with 12:20 left to play.<\/p>\n LBSU remained within striking distance later in the game, trailing 62-56 with just under three minutes to play, but SDSU made five of its six free throws down the stretch to hold on for the win.<\/p>\n The 49ers will return to the Walter Pyramid this Friday (Nov. 21) when they take on San Jose State at 7 p.m.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 49ers were unable to pull off a comeback, falling to San Diego State, 67-59, in their season-opener at the \u2018Myd.<\/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-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","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=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}