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Football: Jordan Caps Historic Season With CIF-SS Championship Loss

The Jordan football team made history Friday night in Irvine, playing in the program’s first-ever CIF Southern Section championship game, and bringing home the program’s first-ever CIF-SS plaque. The only problem? It wasn’t the color plaque they wanted to put in the trophy case. The Panthers fell short on the road against Northwood as their […]

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Feature: Daylen Austin Brings Star Power to Long Beach Poly Football

Long Beach Poly junior defensive back Daylen Austin already had plans for this Saturday. The five-star recruit was scheduled to take an unofficial visit to Oregon, where he was going to watch his older brother Alex suit up for visiting Oregon State in a crosstown rivalry game between the Ducks and Beavers. Daylen had to […]

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Ticket Info, Links For Long Beach CIF-SS Championship Football Games

We’re hoping that as we drive all over Southern California to cover this week’s championship games, we’ll see you in the stands! Long Beach and Moore League teams made history with four teams in the finals, including Jordan making it for the first time ever and Compton making it for the first time since 1979. […]

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Boys’ Soccer Preview: Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits

Last year, Long Beach Poly won its second consecutive Moore League boys’ soccer championship for just the second time in school history. This year, the Jackrabbits are going for a three-peat for the first time ever, and head coach Eric Leon is fired up for the opportunity. “We’re eager to get started,” he said. “We […]

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Long Beach Girls’ Basketball Preview 2021-22

After a tumultuous pandemic season, Long Beach is prepping for a high school girls’ basketball season that looks a little bit more like normal. Every coach we spoke with talked about how significant it was to have a full summer and fall offseason, and optimism is running high. Three Long Beach teams made the preseason […]

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Girls’ Basketball Preview: Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits

The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team had a rough start last year but found its footing under head coach Carl Buggs and ended up claiming the CIF Southern Section Division 1 championship, and the CIF State SoCal Regional Division 1 championship. It was a special season during a difficult year, and was remarkable considering […]

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Girls’ Basketball Preview: Millikan Rams

Expectations are high for Millikan’s girls’ basketball team this year, with the Rams starting the season on the CIF Southern Section’s Division 2AA watchlist. Head coach Lorene Morgan is all but guaranteed to become just the 19th high school girls’ basketball coach in California history to reach 600 wins this season–according to the Cal-Hi Sports […]

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Four Local Teams Feted at CIF Southern Section Football Banquet

There’s almost a half-century of history behind the CIF Southern Section’s championship football luncheon, which has been held for the last several years at the Grand in Long Beach. Each year, the finalists for each CIF-SS football divisional championship gather to have lunch, be celebrated by their peers, and hear a message from the program’s […]