If Long Beach Poly is going to win an unprecedented third consecutive Moore League baseball championship, the Jackrabbits are going to have to get a lot of big performances from senior Ryan Skjonsby. On the opening night of league play Wednesday at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field, they got one, as Skjonsby starred on the […]
Wilson softball is in full rebuild mode after the graduation of first team All-League stars Hailey Houston, Sydney Freijanes and Ava Trachta who were cornerstones in the Bruins lineup for years. “You’re not replacing those three girls,” Wilson coach George Molina said of Houston, Freijanes and Trachta. “But if the entire group puts it all […]
There are no lockouts to worry about in high school baseball, and local fans have what should be a memorable and thrilling season to look forward to. As usual the Moore League is wide open for a four-team championship race and every team this year features big-name talent that will play at the next level. […]
Longtime Lakewood baseball coach Spud O’Neil does not enjoy talking about himself. When asked about his place in the California record books, he’s audibly disgusted. “I don’t think about it, I don’t talk about it,” he said. “My wife and my friends like it, other people bring it up to me all the time, but […]
It would have been easy for the Cabrillo baseball team to wave the white flag last season. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic hit West Long Beach hard, leaving the Jaguars with just 10 varsity players in 2021. Nonetheless, Cabrillo navigated a full season under head coach Phillip Berman, who is now entering his third […]
There is nothing ideal about the St. Anthony baseball season. The Saints only have two starters back from the team that won two playoffs games last year, they’re dealing with the construction at Clark Field that’s taken away the space for their batting cages and over the winter break someone broke in and stole their […]
The Long Beach community honored a local legend recently when the city revealed a new scoreboard at the historic Stearns Championship Field. The field was renamed Tom Buckle Field to honor Buckle, who was a Long Beach Little League legend that spent 50 years encouraging the next generation of youth players. A new scoreboard with […]
All of The562’s water polo coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Aqualand. Visit AqualandOfTheFree.com to learn more. As a little kid, Gray Carson liked to watch water polo during the Olympics. “It was really good and there were great athletes,” Carson said. But last summer the Wilson senior, now one of the best high […]
Members of the Wilson High golf program have had a tumultuous few years. Not only have they lived through the COVID-19 shutdowns, they also lost assistant coach Kurt Holmes when he suddenly passed away in December. Holmes was supposed to take over as the new head coach when athletic director Jeff Evans planned to step […]
For the first time this millennium, Wilson High water polo legend Tony Azevedo (pictured above) is not competing at the Olympic Games, but the Bruins’ Olympic tradition lives on in Tokyo. — Wilson High School’s connection to the Olympic Games began back in 1952. That’s when legendary diver Pat McCormick–along with 800m runner John Barnes–became […]