Happy summer and welcome to our All Baseball episode full of the latest news from local boys in the pros and interviews from the Dirtbags press conference last week. 03:40 Chris “Bat Flip” Betts Wins Home Run Derby, Plus Other “LB In MLB” News 18:00 Meet The New Dirtbags Coach (Interviews With Eric Valenzuela, Andy […]
This has been by far the best sports year at Cabrillo High as the Jaguars have been able to make school history in boys’ soccer, boys’ water polo and badminton over the last eight months. In March, the boys’ soccer team ended the 25-year drought by winning the school’s first-ever postseason championship. They did it […]
Four local divers from Millikan and Poly finished in the top eight at the CIF Southern Section diving championship in May. Millikan junior Jenna Sonnenberg won her second championship by setting a new CIF-SS Division 2 scoring record with a point total of 596.70 for her 11 dives. Sonnenberg won the chamionship last year with […]
Multiple records were broken and reset during the Moore League swimming finals hosted at Cabrillo High in April. On the boys’ side, Wilson had phenomenal performances from both under and upperclassmen alike to win its California record 47th consecutive league championship. Wilson freshman Hank Rivers was one of a few Bruins to break a record, […]
None of the players on the Millikan girls’ soccer team were alive the last time the Rams won the Moore League championship, a shared title in 1991. In fact, the last time they won the league title by themselves, head coach Tino Nunez was just a baby in 1985. That all changed in February when […]
The most exciting playoff win of the spring came last month when Wilson softball came back to Joe Rodgers for its first quarterfinals at home in more than a decade. The Bruins battled Troy with the sophomore battery of pitcher Hailey Houston and catcher Natalya Rodriguez, who call their own pitches. Houston went the distance […]
The Moore League football landscape has been shaped by so many coaches coming and going, and for the first time in awhile, the league is getting a quality on-campus coach back again. In December, Lakewood hired Scott Meyer as its football coach, and as a teacher, hoping to bring the luster back to a proud […]
John Ross was all smiles last year after the celebrity flag football game for his John Ross III Foundation at Veterans Memorial Stadium. “We’re going to come back and do this again next year. We want this to be a tradition,” Ross correctly predicted. However, the celebrities will be playing basketball for charity this year […]
The Long Beach Mizuno Volleyball Club 13U girls’ squad is going to be competing for another national title this summer at the Junior Olympics. The same group had a 64-1 record last year on their way to a National Division title. These Mizuno All-Stars are ranked in the top five after winning 52 of their […]
With more mascot issues, coaching changes and championships being won at Long Beach State, the last 12 months have been exceptionally memorable. LISTEN to us run down this list with AD Andy Fee 1. Men’s Volleyball Goes Back-To-Back All-Americans TJ DeFalco, Josh Tuaniga, Kyle Ensing and Nick Amado completed their careers at LBSU by winning […]