It’s opening day for Long Beach water polo, and Wilson took down Cerritos 18-6 in their opener at the Belmont. We’ve got a great photo gallery from photographer Tracey Roman. Zac Crenshaw led the Bruins with four goals while Kade Margain, Ian Escoto and Gray Carson all scored hat tricks.
Lakewood has won at least a share of the last five Moore League girls’ volleyball titles, and the Lancers opened league play with a typical 25-14, 25-13, 25-21 win at Millikan on Thursday. Senior Julia Crawford had 17 kills, two hitting errors, and seven assists for the Lancers while setter Moni Vivao finished with 25 […]
Here are some of the local games and events for Long Beach State, the Moore League and St. Anthony. THURSDAY High School Girls’ Volleyball, 4:30 p.m. Today is the second full day of Moore League action after most of the local teams competed in tournaments last week, and it features two of the best school […]
The Major League Baseball playoff picture is starting to take shape, and only a handful of players with Long Beach ties are contributing to teams pushing for the postseason. New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Hicks hit his 22nd home run of the season on Tuesday against the Baltimore Orioles. That is a career high […]
Millikan football head coach Justin Utupo announced Thursday morning that the Rams will honor legendary head coach and longtime Millikan community leader Dave Radford with a helmet decal this season. Radford passed away last November after a life of service as a Millikan coach and then a mentor to young coaches. Last year Millikan hosted […]
The next week is going to be critical for the more than 20 Long Beach football players hoping to make an NFL roster. Currently teams can hold as many as 90 players, but on Saturday, Sept. 1, by 1 p.m. west coast time, that number will drop to the regular season-sized roster of 53 players. […]
Fans and longtime coaches alike had to agree after Long Beach Poly’s 26-3 stunner over Narbonne: there was something decidedly old-school about that Jackrabbit defense. Poly was supposed to lose the game with the Gauchos, and probably handily. Narbonne was ranked No. 12 in the state by Cal-Hi Sports and the CalPreps.com game simulation had […]
Lakewood High has produced more than a dozen Major Leaguers, and a few NBA and NFL players too. The Lancers have also produced a world-class cornholer: Matthew Strattman. Strattman won the American Cornhole League’s Southern California championship this month, besting a field of hundreds. The ACL’s regional championships serve as qualifying events for its national […]
The mid-August meeting of the Long Beach Unified Board of Education was the last one before students come back to the classroom and was mostly about personnel moves for the upcoming school year. The meeting also featured what has become a constant at the Board’s monthly meetings: the District’s maintenance department voicing concerns of drastically […]
Lakewood girls’ volleyball gave visiting Mater Dei a run for its money in the first set on Tuesday evening, but the top-ranked Monarchs survived 30-28, and went on to sweep the Lancers 25-18, 25-18. Senior captains Julia Crawford and Romoni Vivao led the Lakewood attack. Crawford had a game-high 14 kills, and Vivao finished with […]