In the 38 seasons that Rod Petkovic has been coaching the Millikan boys’ soccer team, few Moore League programs have shown more consistency. Under Petkovic, the program’s first and only soccer coach to date, the Rams haven’t lost the league title in back-to-back years since 2004-5, and that was the first time they’d lost it […]
The Millikan Rams are defending their outright Moore League championship for the first time since 1985 with teams like Long Beach Poly and Wilson extra motivated to retake the crown. Millikan LB Poly Wilson Lakewood Cabrillo Jordan St. Anthony LONG BEACH BOYS’ SOCCER SEASON PREVIEW Support The562.org
It’s impossible for the Rams to duplicate the history they made last year. After winning its first Moore League since 1991, Millikan went on to win its first CIF-SS Division 1 playoff game in school history. “Our past success has raised the bar, now it is our responsibility to continue to do that,” Millikan seventh-year […]
This week we’re reliving the final Long Beach football games of the year and looking forward to the top story lines for the local winter sports. 02:30 Question O’ The Week: Is Long Beach football season really over? 13:30 Athletes O’ The Week 15:40 Games O’ The Week: CIF Cross Country, LBSU Basketball, LBCC Football […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill The 2019-20 boys’ basketball season should be one of the most exciting of the last decade for Long Beach sports fans. There are two legitimate, ranked Division 1 programs in the city with Long Beach Poly and St. Anthony, something the town hasn’t seen since Ron Massey was coaching at […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill It’s shaping up to be a special girls’ basketball season in Long Beach, with three teams making appearances in the CIF Southern Section rankings to start the year as well as the reigning Moore League Player of the Year and more than half of last year’s first team All-League players […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill There’s been a lot of positive momentum around the Millikan boys’ basketball team under new coach Nate Berger, who took over the Rams program last year and led Millikan to a third-place finish in the Moore League. That earned Berger league Coach of the Year honors and, with seven of his […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill Longtime Millikan girls’ basketball coach Lorene Morgan is excited for the upcoming season after a frustrating end to the 2018-19 campaign, which saw the Rams go 26-4 but fall in the quarterfinals of the Division 2AA playoffs. “The Lady Rams are a little more experienced than last year,” said Morgan. […]
Long Beach Poly and Wilson’s boys’ cross country teams both advanced out of last weekend’s CIF Southern Section prelims to qualify for Saturday’s CIF-SS Finals, which will be held in Riverside. Boys The Jackrabbits and Bruins were the headliners, with Wilson qualifying for the Finals for the first time since 2008. Poly won their heat […]
Nine Long Beach cross country teams are readying for the CIF Southern Section cross country prelims on Friday at the Riverside City Cross Country Course. Parking will be $10 a car and general admission tickets will be $10; tickets are $5 for students with ID and children under 13. Three Moore League girls’ teams will […]