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Girls’ Basketball: Lakewood Survives Nail-Biter With Jordan

The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. The562’s coverage of Jordan Athletics is sponsored by former LBUSD superintendent Chris Steinhauser. If Lakewood or Jordan are able to meet their expectations and make a deep playoff run next month, they should both look back on January 12 as a key moment […]

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Top 10 Long Beach Sports Moments Of 2023

Every year we look back to reminisce on the games, players, coaches and accomplishments that defined Long Beach sports over the last 12 months. No. 10 Water Polo Making Historic Waves No. 9 St. Anthony Winning At Clark Field Again No. 8 Long Beach Poly Baseball Wins Historic League Title No. 7 Wilson Boys’ Tennis […]

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2023 Top 10 Long Beach Sports Moments: No. 6 Legendary Lakewood Coach Retires

The Lakewood girls’ volleyball program has been consistently competing to be the best team in the Moore League for the last two decades under coach Mike Wadley, and now his watch has ended. Wadley retired after this his 19th season during which he won his 500th game as head coach of the Lancers. He is […]

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2023 Top 10 Long Beach Sports Moments: No. 10 Water Polo Making Historic Waves

Every year we countdown the top 10 Long Beach sports moments over the last 12 months, and it seems like every year one of the local high school sports has a few different schools produce historic campaigns. In 2023, that sport was water polo. The Wilson girls won a 16th Moore League championship last January […]