There’s no way to sugarcoat it–last season was a tough one for the Compton boys’ basketball team. A proud program with a long and storied history–and a current six-time NBA All-Star in DeMar DeRozan–struggled mightily for the entire year. Compton finished 5-23 overall under first-year coach Tony Finley, and went a winless 0-12 in the […]
Any record in the rich history of Long Beach basketball is worth celebrating—but what Long Beach Poly’s Jovani Ruff and Lakewood’s Nyemah King accomplished in their high school careers is unprecedented. The pair each capped off a standout four-year run as the city’s all-time leading scorer for boys’ and girls’ basketball, respectively. Jovani Ruff joins […]
On its surface, there wasn’t much at stake in St. Anthony and St. John Bosco’s CIF-SS Open Division pool play clash on Friday night in Jack Errion Gym. State seeding implications, bragging rights, that was about it. But you wouldn’t have known it from the intensity of the crowd and both teams in a defensive […]
