{"id":100930,"date":"2025-12-19T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100930\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:46:08","slug":"long-beach-poly-cruises-to-a-win-over-lakewood-to-open-moore-league-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100930\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Poly Cruises to a Win Over Lakewood to Open Moore League \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach Poly Athletics for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Former Jackrabbits\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the562.org\/2025\/09\/19\/long-beach-poly-football-alums-wendell-moe-jr-tyson-ruffins-sponsor-the562s-coverage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wendell \u201cWoWo\u201d Moe, Jr. &amp; Tyson Ruffins.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The562\u2019s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the562.org\/2022\/09\/07\/jp-crawford-sponsors-lakewood-high-coverage-for-2022-23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was all excitement in the Ron Palmer Pavilion on Thursday night as the Long Beach Poly boys\u2019 basketball team defeated the Lakewood Lancers 63-42 in the Jackrabbits\u2019 Moore League opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having rescheduled their game against Millikan last Friday due to a tournament conflict, the Jackrabbits came into this game eager to play their first Moore League game of the season.\u00a0The Lancers, coming off of a loss to Cabrillo on Tuesday, were hoping to secure their first league win and improve their record to 4-10.<\/p>\n<p>Poly opened the game strong, ending the first quarter leading 18-6. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst home game, they\u2019re kind of pumped up, you know,\u201d said poly coach Shelton Diggs after the game.<\/p>\n<p>A major factor in the Jackrabbits\u2019 win was senior guard Nana Ofoegbu. After missing three weeks earlier this season with a muscle strain, Ofoegbu dropped 15 points in his Moore League senior campaign debut on Thursday and helped guide the Jackrabbits\u2019 offense early on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s more comfortable where they\u2019re at now with him back in the lineup,\u201d said Coach Shelton Diggs.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Ofoegbu, Jonas Oware had a nice night and led all scorers with a game-high 18 points while dominating off the glass. Junior Isaac Hagens added 14 points, and he and Ofoegbu combined for 16 of Poly\u2019s 25 points in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just have to be better on offense, not turning the ball over,\u201d said Diggs. \u201cIt\u2019s just about running our plays a little better and taking advantage of our size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Lancers, senior Diquin Minor had a team-high 16 points as he led Lakewood throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefensively, I thought they played the way we wanted to play. We held [Lakewood] under 40 for the game,\u201d said Coach Diggs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Poly secured its first league win of the season, improving their record to 6-4, while Lakewood now drops to 3-11.<\/p>\n<p>Poly will take on Van Nuys on December 26th, while Lakewood will be in a tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach Poly Athletics for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Former Jackrabbits\u00a0Wendell \u201cWoWo\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-100930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}