Once again, it was a great spring season full of honors for Long Beach Poly and Wilson. The two oldest schools in the city both won four Moore League Player of the Year awards. Baseball A pair of center fielders were named co-Players of the Year as Millikan’s Moises Guzman and Lakewood’s Carter White shared […]
When Jordan Bell’s draft rights were acquired by the Golden State Warriors last summer, talk immediately began about the possibility of the former Long Beach Poly star winning an NBA title in his rookie season. On Friday night that’s exactly what happened as the Warriors completed an NBA Finals sweep of LeBron James and the […]
Solid pitching and opportunistic small-ball offense helped the best baseball players from the Moore League win the Kiwanis All-Star Game 4-2 over the San Gabriel Valley League on Friday night at Paramount High. Wilson senior center fielder Ryan Guerero won the MVP award with two hits and a run scored that broke the 2-2 tie […]
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Four Long Beach athletes made it to Friday and Saturday’s NCAA Track Finals after a thrilling two days of prelims action that included a new Long Beach State 4×100 record. On Wednesday, Wilson alum Mar’yea Harris advanced in the 400 and he will compete in the Finals on Friday at 6:32 p.m. Harris will also […]
Six players from Long Beach schools were selected in the Major League Baseball Draft this week. The Dirtbags had four players picked while LBCC and Long Beach Poly each had one. Jarren Duran – 7th Round, 220th Pick, Boston Red Sox Duran is the 61st Dirtbags player since 1989 to be selected in the first […]
This is the last Athletes of the Week for the 2017-18 season–congrats to all the winners and we’ll see you in the Fall! Rachel Glenn, Wilson Track Wilson sophomore Rachel Glenn cleared 5-10 in the high jump at last weekend’s CIF State Track & Field championships, and won the state championship in the event. The […]
Ten Long Beach athletes will compete at this weekend’s NCAA Track & Field championships in Eugene, Oregon, an event already guaranteed to be historic as it’s the last to be held at Historic Hayward Field before it’s rebuilt. Headlining the group of locals is Long Beach Poly alum Ariana Washington, one of the NCAA’s most […]
It was more than an hour after Wilson sophomore Rachel Glenn had proven herself California’s best high school high jumper, and the effusive Glenn was still on the field. First there were photos, then a trip to the top of the podium to be crowned the co-champion alongside Riverside Poly’s Abbie Burke. Then a wave […]
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