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Long Beach City College Soccer

Women’s Soccer: LBCC Reclaims No. 1 Spot and Conference Title

The Vikings are back at No. 1. In last week’s California Community College Sports Information Association state poll, LBCC reclaimed the top spot. Long Beach earned eight first-place votes and 271 points to finish ahead of Folsom Lake, who had 246 points and three first-place votes. The team climbed their way back to the top […]

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Long Beach Poly Volleyball

CIF State Volleyball: Long Beach Poly Falls to Coronado in Five Sets

The562’s coverage of high school volleyball in 2026 is brought to you by the MLP’s Bay Area Breakers. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly Athletics for the 2026-27 school year is sponsored by Former Jackrabbits Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. Just two days after the Long Beach Poly girls’ volleyball team captured the […]

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Lakewood Volleyball

CIF State Girls’ Volleyball: Lakewood Sweeps Northview in First Round

The562’s coverage of high school volleyball in 2026 is brought to you by the MLP’s Bay Area Breakers. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. It’s a tough but fortunate reality of the playoffs that you put everything into a CIF-SS championship run, only to start all over again […]

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Compton Football Long Beach Poly Millikan

SCHEDULE: Long Beach Football CIF Playoffs

The562’s football coverage for the 2026-27 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell “WoWo” Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins. It’s playoff time! We’ve got a good group of teams representing Long Beach in the CIF-SS playoffs this week. From the Hub City League, Dominguez is taking on Montclair, Compton Centennial is facing […]

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Basketball Long Beach City College

LBCC Men’s Basketball Preview: Vikings Hope Out-of-State Newcomers can Lead Turnaround

The past two seasons have been rocky for Long Beach City College men’s basketball.  In 2024-2025, the Vikings finished 8-20, with a sub-500 conference record. They regressed in both respects last year, losing all ten conference games as part of a 5-23 campaign. Longtime head coach Barry Barnes isn’t shying away from the tribulations as […]

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Volleyball

LIVE UPDATES: Long Beach Poly vs Coronado CIF State Volleyball, Lakewood vs Northview

The562’s coverage of high school volleyball in 2026 is brought to you by the MLP’s Bay Area Breakers. CLICK HERE if you can’t see the updates–please note that Twitter’s recent API changes may delay updates in this feed. Click the link above to visit our Twitter page to see them posted directly.

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Volleyball

Today’s Long Beach CIF State Playoff Schedule

Today’s Long Beach CIF State playoff schedule sees two girls’ volleyball teams hosting first-round state playoff games, as Poly is fresh off their CIF-SS championship and Lakewood is fresh off a runner-up CIF-SS finals performance. CIF State Volleyball Playoffs Round One Division I: Long Beach Poly vs. Coronado, 6pm Division IV: Lakewood vs. Northview, 6pm

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Basketball Long Beach State

Women’s Basketball: Long Beach State Falls Short vs Santa Clara in Home Opener

The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2026-27 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. The theme of the 2026-27 Long Beach State women’s basketball season will be growth, and the Beach (0-2) seemed to do a bit of that on Monday night against Santa Clara (3-0). After a lopsided 100-46 loss at Cal last […]