The Long Beach Poly boys’ cross country team qualified for the CIF State Finals for the third consecutive year on Saturday. The Jackrabbits finished fifth at the CIF Southern Section Finals in Riverside, qualifying them for next weekend’s state meet in Fresno (the top seven teams in each division qualify). “It wasn’t pretty time-wise, but […]
The Long Beach City College football team has had plenty of balls bounce the other team’s way this season. The Vikings have been one play short of a few big wins this season, but they came up on the right side of the razor-blade line between winning and losing Saturday night in their final game […]
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We’ve got great photos from the Vikings’ win from photographer Joseph Kling.
After falling literally one yard short of the state playoffs last week, it’s Silver Lining Saturday for the Long Beach City College football team this weekend as they host Southwestern College in the Southern California Bowl at Veterans Memorial Stadium at 6 p.m. Despite last week’s loss, LBCC claimed a share of the conference championship […]
In the 38 seasons that Rod Petkovic has been coaching the Millikan boys’ soccer team, few Moore League programs have shown more consistency. Under Petkovic, the program’s first and only soccer coach to date, the Rams haven’t lost the league title in back-to-back years since 2004-5, and that was the first time they’d lost it […]
After winning four Moore League title in five years from 2012-2016, it’s been three seasons since the Long Beach Poly girls’ soccer team has brought home the league trophy, a fact that sits heavily on the mind of the Jackrabbits. “We definitely have the goal to win league this year after missing it by one […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill The 2019-20 boys’ basketball season should be one of the most exciting of the last decade for Long Beach sports fans. There are two legitimate, ranked Division 1 programs in the city with Long Beach Poly and St. Anthony, something the town hasn’t seen since Ron Massey was coaching at […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill It’s shaping up to be a special girls’ basketball season in Long Beach, with three teams making appearances in the CIF Southern Section rankings to start the year as well as the reigning Moore League Player of the Year and more than half of last year’s first team All-League players […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill When Long Beach Poly takes the floor for the first time December 3 in the Westchester Tournament, the Jackrabbits will be opening one of the most unique and strange chapters in the program’s storied history. Poly returns only three varsity players from last year’s team, which won the Moore League […]