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 program continues to grow under sixth-year head coach Ish Pluton, also a Jackrabbit alum and former players. Pluton and other Poly coaches recently started a club program, the 562 Water […]
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Football: Jordan Beats Fairfax, Improves to 2-1
No high school football team in Long Beach has won more games than the Jordan Panthers, who improved to 2-1 with an impressive road win at Fairfax on Thursday evening. Jordan fell behind 6-0 early, then rallied behind another big performance from Damian Henderson, winning 36-20. Asked how his team was feeling about winning a […]
LIVE UPDATES: Lakewood vs. North Torrance High School Football
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Long Beach High School Football Schedule, Week 3
Thursday, Sept. 2 Lakewood vs. North Torrance, 7:30 p.m. (Veterans Memorial Stadium) Jordan at Fairfax Friday, Sept. 3 Poly vs. Mission Viejo at Veterans Memorial Stadium Millikan vs. St. Anthony Wilson at Huntington Beach Compton at Inglewood All games 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted
Volleyball: Lakewood Dominates Long Beach Poly in Sweep
After the first set of Lakewood and Long Beach Poly’s Moore League season-opening battle on Tuesday afternoon, Lancers head coach Mike Wadley got his team’s attention. “I told them, how awesome is this?,” he said. “We’re actually in the gym, we’re competing, after not having a season at all last year.” It was fitting that […]
PREVIEW: LBCC Football Makes Emotional Return
After a two-year layoff, the Long Beach City College football team is ready to get back on the field and make itself known again. LBCC didn’t compete last year, and weren’t allowed to even go back on campus for conditioning workouts, something that high school and NCAA athletes were able to do more or less […]
Massive Long Beach High School Girls’ Volleyball Preview
Long Beach’s high school girls’ volleyball players are fired up and ready to get back on the court. Girls’ volleyball was the only sport in the Moore League that didn’t get some kind of a season last year, a fact that was not lost on the top players in the city. “No regular season, no […]
Long Beach Poly Girls’ Volleyball Preview 2021
The Jackrabbits will try to win a fourth consecutive Moore League championship this year, for the first time in program history–and they’ll have a former league rival running the show. Lakewood alum Megan Moenoa was Poly’s splashy hire to replace Leland McGrath two years ago, but after the 2020 season was canceled, Moenoa had to […]
Wilson High School Girls’ Volleyball Preview
By the time the Wilson Bruins played their first competitive volleyball match last Saturday morning, they’d only held seven practices as a team. That didn’t provide the Bruins with much of an opportunity to make up for lost time, especially with a new head coach in charge. Gerald Aquiningoc was announced as Wilson’s new head […]
Millikan High School Girls’ Volleyball Preview
First-year Millikan coach Ashley Atsaros has taken over a Rams program that’s poised to take the next step to challenge the big three of Poly, Lakewood, and Wilson. “I’m super excited for this season so that we can get our name out there again,” she said. “I walked into a program that has a great […]