JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. Ava Schaffel isn’t the type to wait around. She hit Moore League Softball like a tour de force as a sophomore last spring, throwing a no-hitter against Wilson on her way to earning Moore League Pitcher of the Year honors. […]
Coach Mark Ziegenhagen’s Wilson football team is 8-1, and has a very good chance to win the first CIF Southern Section championship on the gridiron in the school’s 93-year history. But it was last week, during the Bruins’ bye, that Ziegenhagen and his family celebrated their biggest victory of the season, regardless of what happens […]
The Millikan boys’ wrestling team won the Battle Of The Valley tournament last week. Diego Laverde (115 pounds), Caleb Turner (132), Alan Patiño (147), Dawson Hill (170) and Edwin Samayoa (220) all won individual titles for the Rams. Trevor Thompson (126), Kyden Lima (140), Michael Salas (195) and heavyweight Santos Salas were also finalists in […]
