Millikan girls’ basketball coach Lorene Morgan knows her team’s chances at a CIF Southern Section or a CIF State championship will come down to the way they play defense. If Thursday night’s running clock win over Norco in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2AA playoffs was any indication, the Rams have a lot […]
Here’s a look at today’s playoff girls’ basketball schedule. Division 1: Long Beach Poly (BYE; play Saturday vs. Winner of Lynwood/Ribet Academy) Division 2AA: Millikan vs. Norco, 7 p.m. Division 2A: Lakewood @ El Rancho, 7 p.m. Division 4AA: Compton @ Palm Desert, 6 p.m.
Isabella Meyer hadn’t participated in a penalty kick shootout for Millikan until Wednesday night when she begged her coach for a chance, promised her teammates she wouldn’t let them down, and then delivered the performance of a lifetime. After 100 scoreless minutes in the first round CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs, Meyer stopped the […]
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None of the players on the Millikan girls’ soccer team were alive the last time the Rams won the Moore League championship, a shared title in 1991. In fact, the last time they won the league title by themselves, their head coach was just a baby — it was 1985. Thanks to a 1-1 draw […]
If this roller coaster Moore League boys’ soccer season is any indication, the CIF Southern Section postseason this month is going to be one to remember. Unexpected results in a tight league race should have the local boys hardened and prepared for a playoff push. “We’ve had seven ties in the league this season,” Millikan […]
Ron Beaulac (center, yellow jacket) poses with former players Last weekend, there was a surprise 75th birthday party for Ron Beaulac, which also served as a kind of history of the sport of soccer in Long Beach. Beaulac started the first club soccer team in Long Beach in 1976, a club that competed in the […]
Last week was the 63rd annual Long Beach Century Club Sports Night banquet, one of the biggest events on the local sports calendar each and every year. As usual, the club gave away more than $50,000 in scholarships, recognized a pair of Athletes of the Year, inducted four new Hall of Famers, and took time […]
We’ve got great photos of the 63rd annual event, taken by photographer Stephen Dachman.