After having their season cut short last year, Long Beach high school baseball players are back on the field once again. The COVID-19 pandemic ended the 2020 season at its midway point, setting up what should be a memorable and emotional 2021 campaign. The Moore League won’t be using Bohl Diamond at Blair Field for […]
Just like football, the Lakewood Lancers and Wilson Bruins share parallel story lines going into this condensed league schedule as both classic baseball rivals are still trying to put it all together. Lakewood started the season by losing six of its first nine games. “We’re just trying to find out the personalty of this team,” […]
Millikan’s three Moore League titles from 2016-18 was the first time in more than a decade that a team had brought the trophy home three years in a row. After watching Long Beach Poly take the crown in 2019 and seeing their season ended by COVID last year, the Rams are back on the field […]
The St. Anthony baseball program continues to build under head coach Kris Jondle, now in his eighth season with the Saints. This year the team moved up from Division 6 to Division 5 and is the frontrunner to win the Santa Fe League. Jondle has been scheduling local teams, scrimmaging against Wilson and playing Long […]
The Wilson Bruins are coming off one of their most successful seasons in school history after winning 10 games and reaching the CIF-SS Division 7 quarterfinals in 2019. However, they know this six-game season is about more than the final score. “We want to build on what we have and hopefully some of that talent […]
Monday was an awful day for the Long Beach City College athletics as the Vikings lost two members of their family. First came the news of women’s soccer assistant coach Sal Marroquin’s heart attack that morning, and then they found out baseball player Jackson Roeder had also passed away suddenly. Roeder was 21. According to […]
Nearly four months after Wilson and Cabrillo played the final organized baseball game on Bohl Diamond at Blair Field, Long Beach’s historic ballpark is back in action. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have established Blair Field as their secondary home for the remainder of the shortened 2020 season, making Long Beach the landing spot […]
The annual Wilson signing day celebration won’t bring the top Bruins athletes to the gym for the first time in years because of COVID-19 closures. However, the Class of 2020 is still one of the most decorated and noteworthy because of some recognizable names going to Long Beach State, and the elite athletes choosing renowned […]
Are you missing sports like we are? We’ve decided to go back and re-record some of our favorite Long Beach highlight videos we’ve produced over the last 12 years. This week we’re starting with the 2012 Moore League baseball showdown between Lakewood’s Shane Watson and Wilson’s Chase De Jong, and we’re talking to De Jong […]
Wilson High is not a basketball school. It has one of the finest high school athletic traditions of any institution in the country, with dozens of Olympians, and more than 60 CIF-SS championships. But those championships have come in water polo, golf, baseball, track and field, and others. Only two CIF-SS hoops titles have been […]