Welcome back to another edition of the562.org’s Athletes of the Week. HIGH SCHOOL Nolan Brown, Long Beach Poly Baseball Long Beach Poly didn’t beat any of the three other Moore League playoff baseball teams last season, and wanted to change that this year. Their power-packed lineup pulled off an 11-10 extra-innings win over Lakewood last […]
History has its eyes on the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team, and the 49ers are staring right back, unblinking. Last weekend they overcame a big hurdle with a pair of wins over No. 4 UC Irvine, bringing the No. 1 Long Beach squad to a program-record 21-0. By contrast, every other team in the […]
The Long Beach State softball team’s pair of gems from Cielo Meza lifted them to a sweep of Hawaii. Meza set a school record with 17 strikeouts in game one against the Rainbow Wahine and then followed it up the next day with a no-hitter. The No. 18-ranked 49ers won game three to move to […]
Twelve years ago Long Beach Poly alum Chase Utley met a young cancer patient named Devin Smeltzer. Utley was a star with the Phillies at the time and Smeltzer was a 10 year-old who’d been undergoing treatment for bladder and prostate cancer for a year. “Baseball let me be a kid, that’s where my love […]
Long Beach Wilson alum and international water polo legend Tony Azevedo has a unique history in his sport, and last week he got a unique tattoo to match it. Azevedo is the only American ever to compete in five Olympics in water polo, and one of the few Americans to ever compete in five Olympics, […]
We’ve got some great photos of the 49ers’ five-set win taken by photographer Stephen Dachman.
Cabrillo baseball coach Pedro Torres said before the season that his team wanted to hang its hat on defense and competitive fire. His Jaguars must have been listening, because Cabrillo gave Long Beach Poly everything they could handle on Thursday afternoon at Blair Field. The two teams were tied headed to the seventh inning before […]
Long Beach Poly and Lakewood crammed an entire Moore League season’s worth of offense into a Tuesday afternoon extra-innings thriller at the Gwynn Family Field on Poly’s campus. The Jackrabbits ended up winning a wild dash home by Nolan Brown, who scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning to seal […]