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 coverage of Dirtbags Baseball for the 2023 season is sponsored by P2S, Inc. Visit p2sinc.com to learn more. Bryan Peters stepped up to take interim head coaching duties for the Long Beach State Dirtbags after the sudden departure of Eric Valenzuela, and he announced on Wednesday that he’s adding Jeff Opalewski and Bryan Prince as assistant […]
Lakewood hit the road for its first game of the season under first-year coach Justin Utupo and couldn’t stop the Peninsula rushing attack in a 21-12 loss. “You have to give it up to that Peninsula team because they run the ball hard,” Utupo said. “This one hurts for the school and the whole city […]
