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Baseball: St. Anthony Off To A 4-0 Start
St. Anthony baseball is 4-0 after the first week of the baseball season, with doubleheader sweeps of Cabrillo and Bellflower, with 44 runs scored and 10 allowed. Senior Matt Duffy leads with 8 RBI, while junior Jacob Fong has seven hits and senior Andrew Donini is hitting .600 with 4 RBI. Junior Lucas Lehmar pitched […]
Baseball: Wilson’s Jacob Ribitzki Throws No-Hitter
Wilson started the year 0-2 with one-run losses to Banning and Bishop Amat, but bounced back on Monday in a big way thanks to junior pitcher Jacob Ribitzki, who threw a no-hitter in his first varsity start. Ribitzki needed just 77 pitches in a complete game effort to help lead Wilson to a 6-0 victory. […]
Long Beach State Athletics Weekly Update
The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team made history last weekend, and they did so in front of more than 3,000 fans. The team’s sweep of No. 4 UCLA was the 33rd consecutive home victory, which sets a new school record — the team hasn’t lost in the Pyramid since March 26, 2016. Long Beach […]
Long Beach High School Baseball Preview
With the high school baseball season starting two weeks earlier this year due to a calendar shift by the CIF State office, local players have had to trade their bats for umbrellas. Every coach in the city has talked about the difficulty of warming up for the season while the temperatures are in the 40s, […]
Baseball Preview: Millikan Trying For History
Rams coach Ron Keester is excited. This year, Millikan is trying to win its fourth consecutive Moore League championship. That would be the first time in school history the Rams achieved that feat, and the first time any team in the league did it since Lakewood’s epic 1969-84 streak. “We don’t feel a difference between […]
Baseball Preview: Wilson Wants More Playoff Success
The Wilson Bruins got a taste of CIF playoff success for the first time in a decade last year by reaching the Division 3 semifinals, and the momentum has already trickled into this season. “The returners have that experience in the playoffs and playing in those pressure-type games,” senior shortstop Alex Seguine said. “So we’ve […]
Baseball Preview: Lakewood Ready To Take Next Step
The Lancers are in the midst of a three-year rebuilding process that 35th-year coach Spud O’Neil says is going as planned. However, he admitted that the most important thing about this season is for his team to learn how to close out games. “I called this the five-inning team last year,” O’Neil said. “We were […]
Baseball Preview: Long Beach Poly Trying To Move Up In League
Last year was a mixed bag for Long Beach Poly, as the Jackrabbits went just 6-6 in the Moore League but also won some playoff games for the first time in a long time. This year is one to determine which of those trends is likely to evolve into the program’s future, which is likely […]
Baseball Preview: Cabrillo Making Marked Improvements
Cabrillo is the dark horse pick this season after the Jaguars and pitcher Dylan Gambino upset Poly in league play last year. “We’re going to be way better than last year,” Gambino said. “I know that for sure.” The junior only allowed two hits in 6.1 innings of that win over Poly thanks to his […]