Collage Fotor
Basketball Long Beach Poly Millikan

Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly, Millikan Win Tournaments

Mike GuardabascioComments Off on Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly, Millikan Win Tournaments

Long Beach Poly and Millikan both won season-opening tournaments last week.

The Jackrabbits were competing in the top Southern California tournament going on last week, the Troy Classic, which Poly won after shocking state No. 5 Etiwanda in the semifinals and No. 2 Mater Dei in the championship. Kalaya Buggs earned Tournament MVP honors .

Millikan defeated St. Anthony to win the Oceanview Tournament, with Vanessa Smith scoring 16 points in the championship and earning MVP honors.

Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
http://The562.org

Related Articles

Poly Xc
Cross Country Lakewood Long Beach Poly Millikan Wilson

CIF Cross Country: Long Beach Poly Boys Advance To Finals

Mike Guardabascio

It was a fast day for the Long Beach cross country runners competing at the CIF Southern Section prelims last Saturday in Riverside at the Riverside City Cross Country Course. Long Beach Poly’s boys cross country team, ranked No. 4 in CIF and No. 4 in the State, was able to advance easily to this […]

Dsc 0298a 1024x731
Basketball Long Beach State

Long Beach State Women’s Basketball Beats UCR, Men Lose On The Road

JJ Fiddler

Sophomore guard Justina King scored 13 of her 18 points in two overtime periods to help lift Long Beach State women’s basketball to a 73-67 double-overtime victory over UC Riverside on Thursday night at Walter Pyramid. It’s the fourth consecutive win for LBSU (10-10, 5-2) and the Beach is now just a half-game behind first-place […]

Aotw
Athlete of the Week Baseball Basketball Lakewood Long Beach Poly Long Beach State Millikan Soccer Softball Volleyball Wilson

The562.org’s Athletes of the Week

Mike Guardabascio

Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship! HIGH SCHOOL Lily Buggs, Long Beach Poly Basketball Long Beach Poly senior Lily Buggs has emerged as the Jackrabbits’ premier scorer this year. Last week Buggs dropped 30 points in a win over Downey and then 20 points in […]