A sports fan walking into the Tim Sweeney Gymnasium at Lakewood on Saturday evening might have mistaken that day’s festivities for just another lopsided volleyball match. The Lakewood girls’ team is having lots of those this year: they’re ranked No. 3 in California, and have a balanced team with five or six different players capable […]
Congratulations to this week’s winners and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship HIGH SCHOOL Devin Samples, Long Beach Poly Football Poly junior Devin Samples had the game of his life on Friday against Millikan, as the definition of a workhorse back. Samples had 35 carries for 284 yards and four touchdowns in the […]
Two years ago, Lakewood girls’ volleyball coach Mike Wadley put a nail in his wall. There wasn’t anything to hang on it yet, but he knew there would be. “We were good enough to be a league champion in 2019 and we didn’t get it done, then we didn’t get to play last year,” he […]
High School Girls’ Volleyball: Lakewood vs. Long Beach Poly Lakewood hosted Poly for a second-round Moore League matchup on Thursday evening.For more coverage of all Long Beach sports, head to www.The562.org. We are a… Support The562.org
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During a Millikan timeout, Wilson girls volleyball coach Gerald Aquiningoc pulled senior Jaedyn Gonzalez aside and asked her how she wanted to serve for the upcoming match point. “We wanted to win it and be aggressive,” Aquiningoc said. The first-year coach said the plan was to hit it short and get the Rams out of […]
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Flipping through the record book for Long Beach State’s women’s volleyball program–wading through details on the five national championship seasons and the more than two dozen All-Americans who’ve played for the Beach–there’s nothing particularly eye-catching about the 1985 season. The 49ers went 18-13 that year and made a first-round exit in the NCAA Tournament. But […]