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As the city gears up for the Long Beach State home openers in the ‘Myd over the next two weekends, the LBCC squads have already gotten their seasons under way. <\/span>Unfortunately, both the men’s and women’s teams lost their openers.<\/span><\/p>\n Men’s<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The men’s team was in Fullerton in the Hornet’s Nest, taking on, you guessed it, the Fullerton Hornets. <\/span>Unfortunately, the Vikings were stung into submission, led by Fullerton’s forward Mike Cox, who posted a double-double with cheese, notching 17 points and 11 rebounds, plus four blocks. <\/span>Guards Paul Taylor and Lavell McDade followed for Fullerton, with 11 and 13 points, respectively. <\/span>Leaders for the Vikings were Andrew Gabellieri and Tyler Mitchell, who chipped in 16 and 13 points off the bench. <\/span>The Vikings fell 73-67, and are now 0-1 on the season. <\/span>The Vikings will travel to the Irvine Valley Tournament this weekend before hosting their home opener next Saturday, November 22nd<\/sup>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Women’s<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The women’s team had a harder time, losing their first two games of the season by a combined score of 139-61, as they lost two games at the Santa Barbara City College MTXE Tourney over the weekend. <\/span>In their first game, they lost 75-39 to Orange Coast College, who were ranked number 11 in the state in a preseason poll—they shot 50% and were led in scoring by Aysha Lyons, with 11. <\/span>The next day they lost to Moorpark College by a score of 64-22. <\/span>They play Fullerton this evening in a nonconference game, and will open their home schedule this Saturday at 5:30pm.<\/span><\/p>\n From LBCC reports<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re looking for an update on the LBCC men’s and women’s basketball teams, this is the story for you!<\/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-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","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=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}