Two Long Beach teams went head-to-head to open the 2023-24 boys’ basketball season with St. Anthony and Long Beach Poly squaring off at Westchester. For more coverage of all Long Beach sports, head to www.The562.org. We are a non-profit, community-funded media outlet in the City of Long Beach, covering primarily sports and education.
Tyler Hendrickson was born and raised in Long Beach, and started covering sports in his hometown in 2010. After five years as a sportswriter, Tyler joined the athletic department at Long Beach State University in 2015. He spent more than four years in the athletic communications department, working primarily with the Dirtbags baseball program. Tyler also co-authored of The History of Long Beach Poly: Scholars & Champions.
Moments after his team defeated Long Beach Poly on the road for the first time since 2008, Compton boys’ basketball coach Tony Thomas was already stressed about his team’s prospects of hanging onto a co-Moore League championship with the Jackrabbits. “The key for us is we can’t slip up and lose a dumb one,” said […]
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Over the last three years, Lakewood alum Duane Cooper has done everything in his power to rebuild his alma mater. He inherited a Lancers squad that went 8-20 and just 3-9 in the Moore League, and pushed the boulder up the hill to the 2017-18 season, when Lakewood went 17-13 and 7-5 in the Moore […]
