{"id":921,"date":"2010-11-05T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/tourney-time-long-beach-state-women-s-soccer-in-conference-final\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T08:19:00","slug":"tourney-time-long-beach-state-women-s-soccer-in-conference-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/tourney-time-long-beach-state-women-s-soccer-in-conference-final","title":{"rendered":"Tourney Time? Long Beach State Women&#8217;s Soccer In Conference Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11:45am |<\/strong> Anyone who was expecting a repeat of the Long Beach State women&#8217;s soccer team&#8217;s disastrous 5-11-3 campaign last season is eating their words today.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers defeated Cal State Northridge yesterday 2-1 to advance to the Big West Conference Tournament Final on Sunday. They&#8217;ll face UC Irvine, who beat Pacific 2-1 yesterday. The winner will advance to the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The win improved the 49ers&#8217; record to 13-5-2 overall, almost an exact reversal of a disappointing 2009 season. But head coach Mauricio Ingrassia has his players at the top of their game when it counts most.<\/p>\n<p>Standout junior Shawna Gordon drew first blood when she rebounded a deflection in the CSUN box and found the back of the net just 13 minutes into the game. The 49ers would head into halftime with a 1-0 advantage, until senior Nikki Myers made it 2-0 in the 80th minute with a mid-air strike from a Marysol Rosas cross.<\/p>\n<p>Northridge scored a few minutes later off a deflection, but it was too late. The 49ers held off aggressive attempts to tie the game and emerged with the huge victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Big West championship will be held this Sunday, November 7 at UC Irvine at 12:00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers defeated Cal State Northridge yesterday 2-1 to advance to the Big West Conference Tournament Final on Sunday. The winner will advance to the NCAA Tournament.<\/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-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}