It was a great season for the Millikan baseball team, but unfortunately for Rams fans it ended on a down note. Millikan three-peated as Moore League champions for the first time since 1993 but were ousted from the first round of the playoffs for the third consecutive year, falling to Murrieta Valley 3-1. “It’s the […]
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Going into Wednesday afternoon’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 wild card game against Sage Hill, Long Beach Poly hadn’t won a postseason game since 2006. Plenty of NCAA Division 1 talent has come through the program since that ’06 win over Servite, but has come up empty in the playoffs. Wednesday the Jackrabbits flipped the […]
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It was the fourth set of the NCAA men’s volleyball championship game between Long Beach State and UCLA, and the local kids were trailing 17-13. I should have been beginning to write my story or trying to read the lips of the Long Beach coaches across the court from me. Instead, as the 49ers’ freshman […]
UCLA men’s volleyball coach John Speraw, also the current USA national team coach, didn’t mince words in describing this year’s Long Beach State national champion. “I’ve said before that this is one of the best collegiate teams I’ve ever seen,” he said. Long Beach took their place in history by beating the Bruins for the […]
Congrats to this week’s winners! HIGH SCHOOL Jenna Sonnenberg, Millikan Diving Millikan sophomore Jenna Sonnenberg made history last week, claiming the CIF Southern Section Division 2 diving championship. Sonnenberg finished with a score of 514.30, easily besting second-place Katelynn Shaheen of Crescenta Valley, who finished with 490.90. COLLEGE Clayton Andrews, Dirtbags Baseball The Big West’s […]
The CIF Southern Section track and field championships aren’t being held in Long Beach this weekend, but they’re going to have a distinctly LBC feel—that’s because six local schools placed 33 entries in the finals. The finals will be at El Camino College beginning at 11 a.m. with running events beginning at 1 p.m. Long […]
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A promising boys’ volleyball season came to an abrupt and surprising end on Thursday evening, as Lakewood, Wilson, and St. Anthony were all knocked out of the second round of the playoffs. The Lancers were seeded No. 2 in Division 2 and the Saints were No. 1 in Division 4. Wilson had a great showing […]