{"id":585,"date":"2012-02-21T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbcc-women-s-basketball\/"},"modified":"2012-02-21T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T07:44:00","slug":"lbcc-women-s-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbcc-women-s-basketball","title":{"rendered":"LBCC Women&#8217;s Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11:30am |&nbsp;<\/strong>Long Beach City College has been named the No. 7 seed for the upcoming 2012 California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Women\u2019s Basketball Southern California Regional Playoffs. With a top-eight seed, the Vikings earned a home game and will host No. 10 seed Cypress College on Friday (Feb 24) at 7 pm in a second-round playoff game at the LBCC Hall of Champions Gym.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach returns to the playoffs for the first time since back-to-back appearances in 2005 and 2006. Under second-year head coach Michael Anderson, LBCC compiled a 19-6 overall record this season and finished fourth in a tough South Coast Conference with an 11-5 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fourth-place SCC finish, the Vikings earned their high seeding with numerous quality non-conference wins and the fifth-highest RPI rating in Southern California. LBCC picked up wins over playoffs qualifiers Fullerton (No. 6), Chaffey (No. 8), Saddleback (No. 9), and Cypress (No. 10).<\/p>\n<p>In conference play, LBCC was 0-2 against No. 1 Mt. San Antonio, 0-2 vs. No. 5 Cerritos, 1-1 against No. 4 East Los Angeles, and 2-0 vs. No. 15 Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach\u2019s opponent on Friday, Cypress, enters the postseason with a 20-9 overall record and was co-champions of the Orange Empire Conference with a 10-2 mark. Early in the season on November 23, the Vikings edged the Chargers by a final score of 49-40 in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Friday\u2019s game will advance to Round 3 and face the winner of No. 2 Ventura and either Pasadena or No. 18 Antelope Valley. Three wins are needed to advance to the CCCAA Women\u2019s Basketball State Championship on March 9 and 11 in Sacramento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach City College has been named the No. 7 seed for the upcoming 2012 California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Women\u2019s Basketball Southern California Regional Playoffs.<\/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-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}