We’ve got some great photos of the game from photographer Stephen Dachman.
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.
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Long Beach Football Schedule Week One
WEEK 1 AUGUST 23 Cabrillo @ Bellflower Compton @ Compton Centennial (5 p.m.) Jordan @ Kennedy Lakewood vs. Camarillo Millikan vs. Carson St. Anthony vs. Valley Christian Wilson vs. Mayfair (Thursday @ Bellflower High) BYE: Long Beach Poly
What Division Will Your Team Be In This Fall?
With teams moving divisions every year in the CIF Southern Section now as part of their playoff competitive equity model (using the teams’ previous two years of results to place them), we wanted to make sure everyone knew where they stand. For football, Long Beach Poly will be in the newly-formed Division 1/2, a 24-team […]
Long Beach Football Master Schedule
WEEK 1 AUGUST 23 Cabrillo @ Bellflower Compton @ Compton Centennial (5 p.m.) Jordan @ Kennedy Lakewood vs. Camarillo Millikan vs. Carson St. Anthony vs. Valley Christian Wilson vs. Mayfair (Thursday @ Bellflower High) BYE: Long Beach Poly WEEK 2 AUGUST 30 Cabrillo vs. Summit Compton @ Santa Monica Jordan @ Rancho Dominguez […]
Season Preview: Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits Football
Long Beach Poly’s football program is long on traditions. Diehard Jackrabbit fans will be excited to see that several of them are coming back this year: Poly re-signed with Nike, the uniform provider they had when they were on their dominant tear through the late 1990s, for one. The Nike uniforms have a much more […]
Season Preview: Millikan Rams Football
There was plenty of hand-wringing in Ram Land earlier this year when football coach Justin Utupo stepped down to pursue collegiate opportunities (he’s an assistant at Azusa Pacific this season). The nervousness was well-founded. With the energetic young Utupo at the helm, Millikan went from a 1-9 season to being the second-best team in Long […]
Season Preview: Compton Tarbabes Football
Last year Compton had one of those seasons that sticks in a coach’s craw for a long, long time. The Tarbabes had their most talented team in a decade and finished at 6-4, their first winning record since 2008, when the team went 7-3. But Compton saw a 22-10 lead over Millikan evaporate and turn […]
Season Preview: Jordan Panthers Football
Jordan was dealt perhaps the team’s toughest loss of the season before the season even started. The team’s top player coming into the year, senior Anthony Scott, was expected to line up at quarterback, receiver, running back, safety, and likely special teams spots as well over the course of the schedule. Instead, a recent knee […]
Season Preview: Long Beach City College Vikings
The Long Beach City College football team will dedicate its upcoming season to Brent Le Roux, the Vikings lineman who passed away a few weeks before the season’s scheduled September 7 start. If the Vikings players and coaches are to be believed, it’s going to be one hell of a season at that. “This is […]