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.
The562’s baseball coverage in 2025 is sponsored by the Millikan, Long Beach Poly, and Lakewood baseball boosters. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. They didn’t know what was wrong, but Malakai Kemp knew something was very wrong. Kemp, a sophomore baseball player at Lakewood, was losing energy and gaining […]
The562’s coverage of water polo & swimming is sponsored by the Aquatic Capital of America Foundation The USA Women’s Water Polo team is hosting four exhibition games this week at Long Beach City College against Italy and Spain. Team USA beat Italy 15-10 on Tuesday night, and concludes the week against Spain today.
We’ve got some great shots of the match from photographer Stephen Dachman. Lakewood swept the short-handed Bruins in three sets, led by Laura Williams’ 16 kills and four blocks, Alwen Pila’s three aces and 14 digs, Fatima Hall’s 29 assists and 10 digs, and Samarrah Dacoud’s 10 kills and 10 digs. The win sets up […]
