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CIF Football: Long Beach Poly Locks Down Cypress, Headed to Championship Game

The season started with a sour note for the Long Beach Poly football team, but the Jackrabbits will have a chance to end it with a celebratory symphony. After starting the year 1-3, Poly has gotten better every week. Thanks to a dominant win in the CIF Southern Section Division 4 semifinals, the Jackrabbits will […]

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LIVE UPDATES: Long Beach Poly vs Cypress CIF Football, Jordan vs Twentynine Palms, Compton at Tahquitz, St. Anthony at Salesian

We’ll have live updates from Long Beach Poly vs Cypress, Jordan vs Twentynine Palms, Compton vs Tahquitz, and St. Anthony vs Salesian. All games scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m. Click here for our previews. Click here if you can’t see the updates. Tweets by 562sports Support The562.org

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PREVIEW: Long Beach Poly Football vs Cypress, CIF-SS Semifinals

It’s been a decade since the Long Beach Poly football team has played in a CIF Southern Section championship game, but the Jackrabbits are just 48 minutes away from reaching one. Poly hosts Cypress at Veterans Memorial Stadium Friday night at 7 p.m. in a Division 4 matchup. If the Jackrabbits win they’ll travel next […]

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CIF State Water Polo: Long Beach Poly Falls to Palisades In Thriller

All of The562’s water polo coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Aqualand. Visit AqualandOfTheFree.com to learn more. The Long Beach Poly boys’ water polo team has been swimming in uncharted waters for the last week as they’ve gotten deeper and deeper into the postseason. On Thursday night in Los Angeles, the Jackrabbits’ historic season […]

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LIVE UPDATES: Long Beach Poly @ Palisades CIF State Water Polo

All of The562’s water polo coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Aqualand. Visit AqualandOfTheFree.com to learn more. We’ll have live updates from Long Beach Poly visiting Palisades for a CIF State Southern California Regional semifinal game when it kicks off at 5 p.m. Click here if you can’t see the updates. Tweets by 562sports […]

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Feature: Long Beach Poly’s Shea Kuykendall Leads With Resolve, Work Ethic

A few weeks before Shea Kuykendall was set to start his freshman year at Long Beach Poly, the quarterback made a bold proclamation to coach Stephen Barbee.  “Coach, I’m going to be the first four-year quarterback here since Chris Lewis,” he said. Barbee chuckles about the story now. “It tells you something about a kid’s […]

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Long Beach Boys’ Basketball Preview 2021-22

Last basketball season was a tumultuous one for Long Beach and much of the rest of Southern California. Long Beach high school teams launched their seasons on less than two weeks notice, some of them after just a handful of practices following a summer and fall without the typical practice games. This year, coaches at […]

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Boys’ Basketball Preview: Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits

Cal-Hi Sports’ recently updated State record book shows that Long Beach Poly’s boys’ basketball team might have as dominant a history as the school’s football teams. The Jackrabbits enter this season with 2,105 all-time victories dating back to 1907–no other school in California has more than 1,800 wins. The Jackrabbits’ co-Moore League championship in the […]

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Boys’ Basketball Preview: Lakewood Lancers

Talk to any Long Beach basketball coach about last year, and none of them are happy about it. The lack of summer and fall practices, and the quick start-up of the season’s first games after the Los Angeles County Public Health Department gave the greenlight made things difficult on everyone. One team that really made […]

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Boys’ Basketball Preview: Millikan Rams

Millikan coach Curtis Boyer is technically entering his second season as the Rams’ coach, after being hired mid-pandemic in December of 2020 and then coaching the abbreviated Spring season. But because of the hasty preparation for last year and a frustrating season for Millikan that saw the Rams finish in fifth place at 3-9, Boyer said […]