Long Beach high school teams won an unprecedented nine CIF-SS championships in 2021, so there was a lot of competition for the top sports moment of the year. But one day stood above the rest: the CIF Southern Section track and field championships, which saw an LBC double-up at the Division 1 meet, with the […]
Moore League baseball is lucky to play a lot of its games at the beautiful and historic Bohl Diamond at Blair Field, and it just so happened that Millikan got to end its dominant CIF Southern Section Division 3 playoff run in its own backyard in front of an impressive Long Beach crowd. Traditionally, the […]
The Long Beach Poly football team capped a bizarre 2021 with a CIF-SS Division 4 championship, the 20th in the program’s history. The year saw much heartbreak for the Jackrabbits, who were mourning the loss of longtime assistant coach Keith “Slice” Thompson as well as the family members of many players. But Poly was able […]
CIF championship games usually carry the added lore of a large, neutral site venue. High school athletes get the rare opportunity to share locker rooms that would otherwise house college or professional teams. Unique settings like Angel Stadium, Honda Center, or even Long Beach’s Walter Pyramid add a different level of grandeur to these important […]
In the 1910s and 1920s, the Long Beach Poly boys’ water polo team was one of Southern California’s best sports programs, winning 11 CIF-SS titles between 1912 and 1929. Since then? Not so dominant, as the Jackrabbits have been the definitive second-place team in the Moore League behind Wilson for the last several decades. The […]
Long Beach City College is preparing to open a world-class set of aquatic and athletic facilities in early 2022, the result of five years of planning, designing, and dreaming. The upgrade was made possible by the passage of Measure LB in 2015, giving the college nearly a billion dollars in construction money from a bond […]
The Long Beach State men’s basketball team had its fourth consecutive game canceled this week due to COVID-19 protocols. The Beach (3-7) was scheduled to visit Cal Poly on Thursday to open Big West Conference play. Support The562.org Because of recently adjusted Big West guidelines, the game against Cal Poly will be declared a no […]
The most improbable championship of 2021 has to be the one Long Beach State softball won, and that’s why it’s No. 6 on our list of top Long Beach sports moments of the year. LBSU hosted the final Big West Conference series of the regular season against Cal State Fullerton in May. The Titans came […]
This year brought some school history for a pair of tennis programs, as the Millikan boys and Poly girls teams each won the first CIF titles in program history. Their accomplishments are No. 7 on our list of the top Long Beach sports moments of the year. Millikan’s boys claimed the first of several CIF […]
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