Division 1: Long Beach Poly vs. Mira Costa, 6 p.m. The Jackrabbits host Mira Costa in the best match perhaps anywhere in Southern California this evening, with Division 1’s No. 8 and No. 9 teams meeting. Poly will be the slight underdog, although that’s mostly academic in a meeting of the Moore League champions and […]
Division 1: Lakewood at Marymount, 6 p.m. Lakewood drew the short straw in this year’s CIF-SS Division 1 playoff brackets, dropping from No. 9 in the rankings to essentially No. 14 in the final week, now traveling to face No. 3 Marymount, a loaded team that went 29-8 en route to a Mission League championship. […]
Division 3: Wilson @ Cypress, 6 p.m. After limping through the last week of Moore League play, Wilson is healthy and ready for the playoffs, the part of the season that coach Carlos Briceno has been looking forward to all year. “I knew Lakewood and Poly were going to be too much for us this […]
Division 3: Millikan @ Culver City, 6 p.m. It wasn’t the regular season that the Rams (18-13) were hoping for, as they fell to fourth place in the Moore League after having forced a third-place tie with Wilson in 2017. That said, the playoffs are a chance to bounce back, although they’ll have their hands […]
Division 5: St. Anthony @ La Serna, 6 p.m. The Saints (19-10) had to sweat out an at-large bid into the playoffs out of the Del Rio League, but they made it in. Now the challenge is traveling to a talented 16-7 La Serna team. “The bid was a top-off to the challenging season, our […]
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With a 14-4 win over Wilson last week, Long Beach Poly improved to 17-0 on the season, 12-0 in the Moore League. The win clinches the Jackrabbits’ fifth consecutive team league championship. Poly was led by three doubles team sweeps with Men Phy/Isabella Feng, Sara Soderberg/Tara Rahai, and Lola Underwood/Dylan Dempsey all coming through with […]
I’ll be perfectly blunt: usually when I go to a football game, I’m there for the football game. Yes, I recognize the value of pageantry in sports and especially in football. I make sure to include the marching band, the drumline, and the cheerleaders in my highlight videos and I enjoy having some music in […]
Find out where your favorite Long Beach teams are playing this weekend… THURSDAY High School Girls’ Golf, Noon Today is the final round of the Moore League individual tournament at El Dorado Golf Course. It will be the only 18-hole round of the week after nine holes were played at Recreation Park and Skylinks on […]
Image from Basketball in Long Beach; Tex Winter draws a play on the hardwood.This story features excerpts and a photo from Basketball in Long Beach, available in bookstores, online, or from the authors. Additional reporting by Chris Trevino. Former Long Beach State men’s basketball coach Tex Winter passed away Wednesday at the age of 96; […]