High School Volleyball: Wilson vs. Millikan The Bruins picked up an impressive sweep of the Rams on opening day for the Moore League. Visit the562.org to support Long Beach sports coverage.
Author: Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
PHOTOS: Wilson vs. Millikan Boys’ Volleyball
We’ve got a great gallery of shots from the Bruins’ sweep thanks to photographer Joseph Kling.
Long Beach High School Boys’ Volleyball Preview
It’s been a wild stretch for high school boys’ volleyball in Long Beach, with St. Anthony establishing itself as a small division power that’s producing some big talent, and the Moore League in flux. Lakewood, Wilson, and Poly have all won the league championship in the last three years, and the 2019 crown is truly […]
Long Beach Boys’ Swimming Preview: Wilson Trying To Extend Record Streak
The state’s longest league championship streak will be on the line again this year, as Wilson tries to win a 47th consecutive Moore League title. The Bruins are led once again by a coach steeped in the tradition of the school’s storied aquatics program, Eric Berg. “We were lucky that the top seniors that graduated […]
Long Beach Girls’ Swimming Preview: Poly Trying To Make History
The Long Beach Poly girls’ swim team is trying to make history this year as they try to win a fourth consecutive Moore League championship. If they succeed, they’d be the first school other than Wilson to four-peat in the Moore League. Longtime coach Kalani Caldwell said there’s advantages and disadvantages to being the hunted, […]
Boys’ Volleyball Preview: St. Anthony Saints
The Saints are the only Long Beach team listed on the CIF Southern Section’s preseason watch list, and they feature the unquestioned top player in the city: Aidan Grosz, a stud middle blocker who’s signed with Long Beach State. Longtime Saints coach Alicia Lemau’u is trying to guide her team to success at the Del […]
Boys’ Volleyball Preview: Lakewood Lancers
Lakewood is the defending league champion and boasts a stud player in Teilon Tufuga, a BYU commit and the brother of Lakewood/BYU stud Storm Fa’agata-Tufuga. The Lancers have a new coach, Tommy Dube, who is managing expectations as he works a sophomore setter into the starting lineup. “We have a young team that has a […]
Boys’ Volleyball Preview: Wilson Bruins
Wilson coach Jeremy Cook already made his mark on Bruins history, having led Wilson to a league title in 2017, the school’s first in almost a decade. This year he has a young team to build up, with only three returning players–two of which were first-team All-Moore League last year. Sophomore Payne Lounsbery, the team’s […]
Boys’ Volleyball Preview: Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits
The last time Long Beach Poly won the Moore League, in 2016, they featured one of the best players in the country in Sam Lewis. This year’s Jackrabbit squad doesn’t have a monster recruit like Lewis, but they do feature six players of at least six-foot, and they have some impressive firepower, as well as […]
Boys’ Volleyball Preview: Millikan Rams
Millikan hasn’t won a Moore League championship since 2006, but the Rams are a program on the rise right now under coach Matt Johnson, who has them in the conversation for this year’s championship. Johnson said it’s a goal to win the league this year, but pointed out that under the CIF Southern Section’s competitive […]