A historic year produced a historic championship. The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team had won six CIF Southern Section titles and six CIF State titles coming into Thursday night’s CIF-SS Division 1 championship against Esperanza, but they’d never done it at home. That special accomplishment came as the result of an unbelievable COVID year […]
The562’s coverage of girls’ flag football is sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. Long Beach Poly senior Aaya McLyn is being honored at the highest levels of sport possible for a high school athlete. The Moore League Player of the Year in flag football, […]
STORY BY MATT SIMON With the sun blazing for a 5 p.m. start on Friday the Compton Tarbabes shook off a shaky start to roll past crosstown rival Compton Centennial 40-0 in the season opener. “It’s our first game, so I knew we’d make some mistakes,” coach Calvin Bryant said. “We had a few players […]
