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Author: JJ Fiddler
JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
Clayton Andrews Tosses Shutout In Dirtbags Win Over CSUF
Long Beach State Dirtbags junior lefthander Clayton Andrews pitched a complete game shutout with 11 strikeouts in a 1-0 win over visiting Cal State Fullerton on Friday night at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. Andrews has won the last three Big West Pitcher of the Week awards. LBSU (27-29, 12-11 Big West) and rivals Cal […]
PREVIEW: Wilson Baseball At Bellflower For CIF Quarterfinals
The Wilson baseball team is in a good position headed into the CIF Southern Section Division 3 quarterfinals today at Bellflower High. First pitch is scheduled for 3:15 p.m. The Bruins (20-11-1) are riding high after their upset of Arcadia, they have a trio of available pitchers and they are familiar with Bellflower after playing […]
PHOTOS: Long Beach State Dirtbags Drop Series Opener To CSUF
The Long Beach State Dirtbags dropped the series opener to Cal State Fullerton 9-3 on Thursday at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. CSUF (31-22, 17-5 Big West) scored in six different innings and had seven extra-base hits. LBSU (26-29, 11-11 Big West) got three hits from leadoff hitter Clayton Andrews, but stranded nine runners on […]
Long Beach State Track & Field Update
Jason Smith and Sal Nasser finished in the Top 10 to claim the first two spots at the NCAA Championship for Long Beach State in the first day of competition at the NCAA West Preliminaries on Thursday in Sacramento. Smith, the Big West Field Athlete of the Year, finished in fourth place in the long […]
Wilson Golfer Tyler Schafer Headed Back To CIF State
After shooting a 1-under par 71 at Brookside Golf Course on Thursday in the CIF Regional, Wilson senior Tyler Schafer qualified for his third consecutive trip to the CIF Finals at San Gabriel Country Club on Wednesday. Schafer, who set the record in his third consecutive Moore League individual championship, is the first Moore League […]
Wilson Baseball In Good Hands With Senior Ryan Guerero
Ryan Guerero has been chasing baseballs at Blair Field for almost his entire life. As a Littler Leaguer, he would run around the outskirts of the grandstand collecting the balls that went out of play. “I have a basket full of over 100 foul balls,” Guerero said. “I always had fun hanging out with friends […]
COLUMN: LBSU Dirtbags Should Relish Rivalry
I hate Fullerton. It is a sad, land-locked concrete jungle with delusions of seaside grandeur that thinks a few bars on the same street deserves to be called “downtown” unlike any other city ever. The arboretum is nice though. Many other Long Beach State alums correctly feel the same way. That is what having a […]
PODCAST: What Up, Long Beach!? CIF Postseason Updates
This week JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio are talking about Long Beach track and field history, CIF success for Moore League baseball and softball (14:30) and The562.org’s Athletes Of The Week (18:50).
CIF Baseball: Wilson Comes Back To Beat Arcadia
All seemed lost for Wilson after visiting Arcadia took a 4-0 lead on Tuesday in the top of the sixth inning. However, the Bruins bounced back to tie it up in the bottom of the frame, and win the CIF Southern Section Division 3 second-round game 5-4 on a walk-off wild pitch in the eighth […]