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Basketball Long Beach State

PREVIEW: Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Playing For First Place Tonight

The top spot in the Big West Conference men’s basketball standings will be up for grabs tonight at 7 p.m. when Long Beach State hosts Cal State Fullerton at Walter Pyramid. LBSU (12-9, 7-1) is riding an eight-game winning streak, its longest since winning the Big West in 2013, thanks to vast improvement on defense. […]

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CIF Water Polo: Wilson, Millikan, Poly, Lakewood Start Playoffs This Week

All of The562’s water polo coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Aqualand. Visit AqualandOfTheFree.com to learn more. Long Beach got a good series of draws in the CIF Southern Section girls’ water polo playoff brackets released on Monday morning. Division 1 Wilson received the No. 4 seed in the Division 1 playoffs, […]

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The562.org’s Athletes of the Week

Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks as always to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. HIGH SCHOOL Olivia Herrera, Wilson Soccer Olivia Herrera has been a lockdown goalie throughout her career at Wilson, and last week she delivered her Bruins a Moore League championship. Herrera was a star at keeper in a […]

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Basketball Long Beach Poly

Girls’ Basketball: Long Beach Poly Wraps Up 16th Straight Moore League Title

There was no confetti or celebratory pictures when the Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team finished its regular season last week with an impressive road win over Lakewood, 60-37. That completed another gauntlet week for the Jackrabbits that saw them beat Cabrillo (77-25), Lakewood again (73-37), Redondo Union (46-44), and Millikan (58-40). The Jackrabbits didn’t […]

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Baseball Wilson

Stearns Park Renames Baseball Field After Tom Buckle

The Long Beach community honored a local legend recently when the city revealed a new scoreboard at the historic Stearns Championship Field.  The field was renamed Tom Buckle Field to honor Buckle, who was a Long Beach Little League legend that spent 50 years encouraging the next generation of youth players. A new scoreboard with […]

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Long Beach State Volleyball

Long Beach State Volleyball Voted No. 1 Team in the Nation

The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team is off to an excellent 6-1 start, especially impressive given that they’re a young squad with no seniors on the roster, and that they have by far the hardest schedule in the country. While the coaching staff began the year saying they expected to get significantly better over […]