The562’s high school baseball and softball coverage for the 2022 season is sponsored by LBUSD Board of Education Member Megan Kerr. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. With two future Division I college arms on the mound, it was reasonable to expect a pitcher’s duel between […]
Long Beach City College is preparing to open a world-class set of aquatic and athletic facilities in early 2022, the result of five years of planning, designing, and dreaming. The upgrade was made possible by the passage of Measure LB in 2015, giving the college nearly a billion dollars in construction money from a bond […]
The 2021 season has already been a historic one for Millikan athletics. The Rams have won repeat Moore League championships in girls’ cross country and girls’ soccer, plus an outright title in softball, representing some of the most successful periods ever for those programs. Enter Millikan boys’ tennis, with a chance to accomplish even more […]
It was a tale of two halves on Tuesday at Jordan where Millikan senior captain Jesus Moreno came alive after halftime and led the Rams to a 2-0 Moore League victory between CIF-SS Division 1 programs. After a relatively even first half, Moreno scored in the 55th minute on the counter attack and provided perfect […]
Long Beach native Sherridan Atkinson will be joining Athletes Unlimited, the first professional indoor women’s volleyball league in the United States, launching this month in Texas. Atkinson played varsity volleyball at Millikan High School for three years, and graduated in 2014. She then joined Long Beach State women’s volleyball team for two years before transferring […]
Baseball has taken Glenn Walker all over the world, and it eventually brought him home. The former Poly Jackrabbit followed his love of the game to Hawai’i, Japan, Sioux Falls, and everywhere in-between, but he’s finally made roots in his hometown. Walker currently holds a coveted position as a SoCal area scout for the New […]
As we celebrated February’s two-year anniversary of the562.org’s launching, we had plenty to be happy about. The runaway growth of the website meant we were reaching hundreds of thousands of people each month, and we’d published more than 500 photo galleries and 450 highlight videos, as well as more than 1,000 articles. None of that […]
Long Beach State men’s volleyball reclaimed their No. 1 ranking by knocking off Hawaii twice last weekend. The Beach won on Friday and Saturday night in a pair of five-set thrillers. WATCH VIDEO of the Senior Night comeback. READ MORE about what the important wins headed into the Big West Conference Tournament. BASEBALL The Dirtbags […]
The No. 1 Long Beach State men’s volleyball team will be back at Walter Pyramid this weekend for a pair of nonconference matches on the new Taraflex playing surface. WATCH HIGHLIGHT VIDEO from last weekend when The Beach christened the new floor. LBSU will host No. 8 Stanford at 7 p.m. on Friday, and Saint […]
The Rams hosted a lunchtime Signing Day ceremony for their eight seniors moving on to play in college. Millikan boys’ athletic director Kevin Marchael said that it was important to him to recognize the scholarship athletes at the school this year. Click here for our video of the event. “Whether you’re doing to a D1 […]