Long Beach Poly, St. Anthony, and Avalon all picked up opening-round wins on Thursday evening. Here’s links to all our coverage. Long Beach Poly def. Mira Costa 3-0 READ MORE about how Poly took down the Mustangs in three sets to set up next week’s big showdown with Mater Dei. WATCH VIDEO / SEE PHOTOS […]
The Wilson and Millikan football teams have traveled parallel tracks to arrive at their marquee Moore League football matchup tonight. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Millikan where the winner will take hold of second place in the league. “To be honest, this is the one I circled on the calendar,” Wilson coach Mark […]
Twenty four months ago it would’ve been impossible to imagine that Jacob Starkey, Christian Conrad, Xavius Tauta and Angel Guzman would be major players in a marquee Moore League football matchup, but wonders never cease. READ MORE about how Jacob Starkey shuffled through multiple positions while becoming a Millikan football senior captain. READ MORE […]
Wilson’s Emi Sverduk played the worst nine holes of her short high school girls’ golfing career on Thursday at El Dorado Golf Course, but she still made history. Sverduk birdied the last hole of the shortened Moore League individual final round to become the first freshman ever to win the league championship. She is the […]
Two years ago, Jacob Starkey was a Millikan football player without a position to play. Tonight, he will be a senior captain when the Rams host Wilson in a second-place Moore League battle. “He tried for three years to try and find himself on the field,” Millikan coach Justin Utupo said of Starkey. “I think […]
Two years ago, Xavius Tauta was a standout defensive lineman for Lee Williams High in Arizona. Tonight, he will be difference maker on both sides of the trenches as Millikan hosts Wilson is second-place Moore League battle. Millikan coach Justin Utupo said before the season that Tauta “fell out of the sky” into his squad, […]
Six Long Beach girls’ volleyball teams start the playoffs tonight at 6 p.m.–we’ve got previews of every match and we’ll have live updates this evening. The second round is slated for Saturday at 6 p.m., except for Division 1, which won’t play again until next week. Division 1 Long Beach Poly vs. Mira Costa CLICK […]
Division 3: Millikan @ Culver City, 6 p.m. It wasn’t the regular season that the Rams (18-13) were hoping for, as they fell to fourth place in the Moore League after having forced a third-place tie with Wilson in 2017. That said, the playoffs are a chance to bounce back, although they’ll have their hands […]
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I’ll be perfectly blunt: usually when I go to a football game, I’m there for the football game. Yes, I recognize the value of pageantry in sports and especially in football. I make sure to include the marching band, the drumline, and the cheerleaders in my highlight videos and I enjoy having some music in […]