The Los Altos 9s All Stars from El Dorado Park won the Cal Ripken SoCal State Tournament earlier this month, punching their ticket to the Cal Ripken Regional Tournament in Galt, CA. Los Altos won a best-of-three state tourney with a pair of wins over fellow Long Beach squad Uptown. The Los Altos 9s won […]
The Los Altos 8s All Stars out of El Dorado Park won the Cal Ripken SoCal State Tournament earlier this month, punching their ticket to the Cal Ripken Regional Tournament in Rohnert Park. The Long Beach boys were dominant in the State Tourney with 10-0 and 10-4 wins to reach the championship, where they played […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2023-24 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. There was a time when the Monson Maniacs filled the far side of Walter Pyramid to support their men’s basketball team, but now the best student section in the city and at Long Beach State has been for national […]
No one was surprised when local basketball stars Jovani Ruff and Ryann Bennett took over CIF postseason games and carried their teams to victory. That’s because they’d been doing it all year. It didn’t look like Bennett had brought her A-game when St. Anthony took on Moreno Valley in the CIF Southern Section Girls’ Basketball […]
Unfortunately as specialization is pushed at younger and younger ages, the high school multisport athlete is largely becoming a thing of the past, with year-round commitments crowding out the old-school approach. As such we wanted to recognize four Long Beach athletes competing in multiple sports at a high level this year. On the boys’ side, […]
The562’s high school baseball coverage is sponsored by Tribe Athletics. Visit TribeAthlete.com for more information on their fitness community. A collection of talented baseball players from the Long Beach area swept their way to a championship last week in Arizona, as the CBA Bears claimed the Perfect Game 17U National World Series Championship. The Bears roster is […]
St. Anthony High School announced that Vincent Nolasco has been hired as the school’s new athletic director, joining the Saints from Don Bosco Tech, where he served in the same role for the past four years. Nolasco is a native of La Puente, who has prior AD experience from his time at Christ the Teacher […]
Each year we present the Spirit of Long Beach award to a person or group of people that’s inspired us over the course of the school year. This year, LBCC Dean of Kinesiology, Athletics, and Public Health Randy Totorp is our obvious selection. Anyone who’s seen the revitalization of LBCC’s sports facilities knows that they’re […]
The562’s high school baseball coverage is sponsored by Tribe Athletics. Visit TribeAthlete.com for more information on their fitness community. Even though the dog days of summer are fast approaching, last week was a busy one at Wilson’s Skip Rowland Field, where the Bruins won three games in four days to secure an American Legion Area […]
Every year features emotional highs and lows, and 2023-24 was no different. But no moment moved us more than seeing St. Anthony boys’ basketball coach Alan Mitchell pointing to the sky in memory of his father after leading his Saints to the CIF-SS Division 2AA championship. Mitchell lost his father just a month prior to […]