The Long Beach City College football team held its spring game last week, giving local football fans a glimpse of the promising season ahead. The Vikings were a young team last year that finished 8-3, including a blowout win in the Patriotic Bowl Game to end the season. The team divides its roster into evenly-matched […]
CIF Southern Section Masters Track & Field 2018 We’ve got highlights from all the Long Beach kids competing in the Masters meet, including the 10 entries that made it to state. Visit the562.org and click SUBSCRIBE to support local journalism.
Gas up the van, there’s going to be a big contingent of Long Beach athletes heading to Clovis for the CIF State Track & Field championships this weekend. Of the 13 entries into Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Masters Meet at El Camino College, 10 advanced to the state meet including representatives from four schools. Long […]
We’ve got some photos by legendary Long Beach sports editor Jim McCormack
We’ve got some great shots of the Dirtbags’ final game of the season–a tough 10-9 loss–by photographer Stephen Dachman.
The Wilson baseball coaching staff all agreed that Friday’s CIF-SS Division 3 quarterfinal game between the Bruins and Bellflower was one of the weirdest they’d ever seen—but one of the sweetest, too. The three-headed Bruins monster of Ryan Pettway, Nick Endres and Aiden Alaniz combined to no-hit the Buccaneers in a 4-2 victory that sends […]
PHOTOS BY STEPHEN DACHMAN
Long Beach won’t be hosting the Olympic triathlon until 2028, but USA Triathlon decided not to wait that long to begin bringing international events to the city. At a press conference at Shoreline Park on Tuesday morning, USA Triathlon CEO Rocky Harris announced that the organization will host the annual Legacy Triathlon on Long Beach’s […]
Long Beach Poly’s historic playoff run came to an end in the second round on the road against Temescal Canyon, where the magic ran out in a 5-0 loss. Poly won a wild card game and a first-round game to advance to the second round for the first time since 2006. “I’m extremely proud of […]
Congrats to the honorees in this week’s supersized Athletes of the Week. HIGH SCHOOL Joey Vega, Wilson Softball Wilson pitcher Joey Vega battled through a leg injury last week to help lead Wilson to its first postseason win in seven years. Vega pitched a complete game and yielded just two runs, and he had a […]