The Beach avoided the Big West's "underdog trap" on Thursday when taking care of visiting UCR at the Pyramid, the latest in a string of impressive efforts for Chris Acker's much-improved side that continues to get big production from frosh G Gavin Sykes (18.1 ppg) and 6-9 Syracuse soph transfer Petar Majstorovic, who's scoring at a 21 pg clip the past four. New to the party is 6-7 French frosh Leopold Levillain, who has recorded back-to-back double-doubles. True, the host Matadors have some sharp edges especially as Niagara transfer G Josiah Davis (20.3 ppg last three) has been on a recent heater, but a collection of close CSUN scorelines suggests laying this many points, to this foe in particular, is a bit risky. Play Beach