Long Beach, CA—The Brigham Young University Hawaii men’s basketball team played a strong first half against Division I Long Beach State tonight, but was outscored 47-15 in the second half as they lost 79-43 to fall to 1-5 for the season. The Seasiders trailed by just four, 32-28, at halftime but Long Beach State scored the first ten points of the second half and ran away from the Seasiders.
Jet Chang scored 16 points to lead the Seasiders but no other BYU-Hawaii player scored more than five points. Bracken Funk pulled down nine rebounds in the loss.
Long Beach State, now 4-3 for the season, had eight players score five points or more and was led by Larry Anderson with 16. T.J. Robinson had 14 rebounds and 12 points and Eugene Phelps had 14 points and 13 rebounds for Long Beach.
BYU-Hawaii will play UH-Hilo on Thursday in an early season Pacific West Conference game at 7:00 pm in Hilo.
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
23 Chang, Tsung-Hsien.. g 7-15 0-3 2-3 1 2 3 0 16 0 3 0 1 33