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, […]
The Long Beach Poly girls’ soccer program has been through a lot over the last five years under multiple head coaches, but the Jackrabbits feel like they’re headed in the right direction again under first-year coach Anthony Perez, and the results don’t lie. Poly is playing its second CIF Southern Section semifinal in the last […]
Cabrillo High School boys’ athletics is in the midst of its most successful year ever since opening its doors in 1995. Boys’ water polo reached the first semifinal in school history in November, and the boys’ soccer program will play its first semifinal on Saturday at Riverside Poly. The Division 2 matchup is set to […]
In a game that’s expected to draw a huge crowd to the Walter Pyramid, the No. 1 Long Beach State men’s volleyball team will host No. 4 UCLA at 7 p.m. on Saturday in another highly-anticipated rematch of last year’s NCAA title game. The two teams played earlier this year, with Long Beach sweeping the […]
The strength of Long Beach Poly’s girls’ basketball team this year has been its depth, as head coach Carl Buggs has gotten big games from players up and down his bench. On Friday night at King High in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 semifinals, there were no answers to be found offensively anywhere for […]
We’ve got some great photos from the Jackrabbits’ road defeat in Riverside thanks to Art O’Neill.
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Skylar Herrera can see things happening on the field that other players her age don’t think to look for, and that high soccer IQ has helped the Long Beach Poly senior record two goals and two assists in the CIF Southern Section Division 2 playoffs this month. “Aside from the skill and talent level, she […]
Hugo Rojas and Jose Robles say they didn’t have any friends at Cabrillo High three years ago as sophomores, but now the seniors are two center pieces of the best defense in the city. “The guys on the soccer team were the first friends I made here,” Robles said. “Ever since then we’ve been bonding […]
As Long Beach Poly’s girls’ soccer team was taking the field against Palos Verdes in the first round of the CIF Southern Section soccer playoffs, one of the PV parents leaned over to another and asked, “Who are THOSE girls?” She was pointing to Aniah and Allanah Cutler, and it’s a question worth answering. The […]