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 […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill Only Compton has been able to force their way into the last decade of green and gold Moore League dominance, splitting their regular season series with the Jackrabbits in 2015-16 to force a co-championship that year. This year’s Compton squad wants to do more than share the championship this season: […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill There’s been a lot of positive momentum around the Millikan boys’ basketball team under new coach Nate Berger, who took over the Rams program last year and led Millikan to a third-place finish in the Moore League. That earned Berger league Coach of the Year honors and, with seven of his […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill Lakewood coach Duane Cooper feels like his Lancers are ready to take a jump after a 10-17 campaign in 2018-19 and a fifth place finish in the Moore League. To do so, Lakewood will have to rely on a number of new players. “We have a lot of seniors, but […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill The Cabrillo boys’ basketball team finished sixth place in the Moore League last year with a 4-16 record, but coach Kyles Hawkins likes the trajectory of his program. Hawkins, a rare Cabrillo alum coaching at Cabrillo, has a youth-oriented team that features just three returners and four seniors this season, with […]