In the 18 years that the Moore League has had girls’ water polo, only two league championships have gone to a school other than Wilson–and the Bruins are the favorites as usual headed into the 2019-20 season. That said, there’s plenty of talent on all the teams to make things interesting. The league season will […]
The Bruins are hungry to continue their legacy and Wilson is a program on the rise. The Bruins are back in the top division in the CIF Southern Section after winning a lower division CIF-SS title two years ago. This year’s Wilson team returns five starters from last year’s 18-9 overall Moore League championship squad. […]
The Long Beach Poly boys’ cross country team qualified for the CIF State Finals for the third consecutive year on Saturday. The Jackrabbits finished fifth at the CIF Southern Section Finals in Riverside, qualifying them for next weekend’s state meet in Fresno (the top seven teams in each division qualify). “It wasn’t pretty time-wise, but […]
Moore League boys’ soccer is back in a big way. Long Beach went though a bit of a postseason slump a few years ago, but this year the top three teams Wilson, Cabrillo and Millikan are all competing in CIF Southern Section Division 1. Wilson Cabrillo Millikan LB Poly Jordan Lakewood Compton St. Anthony LONG […]
The Wilson Bruins are coming off arguably one of the most successful seasons in program history. They battled a tough Moore League to win their first title in 12 years, and then won a pair of penalty kick shootouts to reach the CIF Southern Section Division 1 quarterfinals for the first time since 2007. After […]
The Millikan Rams are defending their outright Moore League championship for the first time since 1985 with teams like Long Beach Poly and Wilson extra motivated to retake the crown. Millikan LB Poly Wilson Lakewood Cabrillo Jordan St. Anthony LONG BEACH BOYS’ SOCCER SEASON PREVIEW Support The562.org
Despite only losing one league game last year, the Wilson Bruins finished third and consider the season a disappointment. “We were very young and without the presence of a senior in the starting lineup,” Wilson coach Dalton Kaufman said of last season. “That means this season we return our entire starting lineup with the addition […]
This week we’re reliving the final Long Beach football games of the year and looking forward to the top story lines for the local winter sports. 02:30 Question O’ The Week: Is Long Beach football season really over? 13:30 Athletes O’ The Week 15:40 Games O’ The Week: CIF Cross Country, LBSU Basketball, LBCC Football […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill The 2019-20 boys’ basketball season should be one of the most exciting of the last decade for Long Beach sports fans. There are two legitimate, ranked Division 1 programs in the city with Long Beach Poly and St. Anthony, something the town hasn’t seen since Ron Massey was coaching at […]
Photo by John Napalan/Art O’Neill It’s shaping up to be a special girls’ basketball season in Long Beach, with three teams making appearances in the CIF Southern Section rankings to start the year as well as the reigning Moore League Player of the Year and more than half of last year’s first team All-League players […]