JJ Fiddler
JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
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Baseball Lakewood Long Beach Poly

Baseball: Poly’s 8-Spot in Fourth Fuels Win at Lakewood

Tyler Hendrickson

Opposing teams don’t usually appear to have much fun when visiting Spud O’Neil Baseball Field at Lakewood High. After all, there’s a reason the field’s namesake has over 900 career wins and counting. But despite a 2-0 first-inning deficit, Long Beach Poly (14-3, 4-0) never looked rattled, and even played some “Lakewood Baseball” to secure […]

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Softball Wilson

Softball: Wilson’s Sacha Zalamea Named USA Softball Top Performer

Mike Guardabascio

Wilson sophomore Sacha Zalamea received a major national honor last week, as she was named one of the Top Performers from USA Softball’s U16 National Team Selection Event. Zalamea not only started for the Bruins last year as a freshman, she was one of the best players in the city, earning first-team All-Moore League honors.  […]

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Football Lakewood

Football: Lakewood Drops Close One To Laguna Hills

JJ Fiddler

The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. All Lakewood football does is play close games. For the third consecutive week the Lancers found themselves in a one-score game in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter, but they fell short against visiting Laguna Hills on Friday to lose their home […]