Just days after Garrett Hampson became the 50th Long Beach State Dirtbag to reach Major League Baseball, Jeff McNeil made it three LBSU product call-ups last month when he joined the New York Mets. Dirtbags product Drew Gagnon joined the Mets on July 10. McNeil is the 12th Dirtbag to play in the MLB this […]
More than 20 Long Beach football players are out there across the country working hard to make an NFL roster during the dog days of minicamps and the preseason, and the date they’re all thinking about is September 1. That’s the day that teams have to cut their roster down to 53 players (currently they’re […]
Happy football season, Long Beach! Check out our previews of every team with projected starting lineups as well as our video previews of every team if you haven’t already. Here’s the full schedule of who’s playing where this week. WEEK 1 AUGUST 17 Cabrillo vs. Bellflower Compton vs. Compton Centennial (5 p.m.) Jordan vs. Aliso […]
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Long Beach Wilson Football Season Preview 2018 Read more about the Wilson Bruins: http://www.the562.org/2018/08/10/wilson-bruins-football-season-preview/
Football season is back, and starting earlier than ever thanks to a change in the schedule by the CIF State office. For Long Beach football fans, it’s not a moment too soon. Thanks to the new opportunities offered to local teams by the CIF Southern Section competitive equity format, every team feels like they have […]
After two historic 10-win seasons that included a Moore League championship and its first CIF semifinal appearance since 1991, Wilson struggled last year with only four returning starters. The Bruins went 5-6 with a disappointing 40-0 loss to Paramount in the playoffs. This season will prove if that rebuilding process was worth it, and with […]
Here’s a full schedule of this year’s games WEEK 1 AUGUST 17 Cabrillo vs. Bellflower Compton vs. Compton Centennial Jordan vs. Aliso Niguel Long Beach Poly @ Dorsey Millikan @ Carson St. Anthony @ Valencia Wilson vs. Mayfair BYE: Lakewood, Avalon WEEK 2 AUGUST 24 Cabrillo @ Summit Compton vs. Santa Monica Jordan vs. […]
Here are the Long Beach football games you need to circle on the calendar. August 17 Wilson vs. Mayfair The first football game on the new turf field at Wilson also will be one of the earliest played games in Long Beach football history. The CIF state office moved the schedule up to get both […]
A few years ago, the CIF Southern Section drastically reshaped the way its playoffs were structured (and thus the way its championships are decided) with the introduction of the competitive equity format. For most team sports, divisions are no longer decided by enrollment size but rather by complex formulas designed to calculate how competitive a […]