{"id":166439,"date":"2026-02-06T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166439\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:09:07","slug":"long-beach-poly-crushes-estancia-in-playoff-opener-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166439\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Poly Crushes Estancia In Playoff Opener \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

The562\u2019s coverage of aquatic sports in Long Beach in 2025-26 is sponsored by\u00a0Watersafe Swim School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach Poly Athletics for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Former Jackrabbits\u00a0Wendell \u201cWoWo\u201d Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins.<\/a><\/p>\n

Things couldn\u2019t have gone much better for Long Beach Poly on Thursday evening at Cabrillo High. The Jackrabbits made the short trip down PCH for their CIF-SS Division 4 playoff opener against Estancia, coming away with a dominant 22-2 victory.<\/p>\n

Senior Sequoia Newman led the way for Poly with eight goals in under three quarters in the pool, and was one of four Jackrabbits to score a hat trick in the win.<\/p>\n

When asked what he liked from his team\u2019s performance, Poly head coach Ali Landeros talked about what happened when Newman was no longer in the pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it was the fourth quarter when they all started to finish without our star player in there,\u201d explained Landeros. \u201cClearly Sequoia is our gunner, and she does a lot of our action, so the real test was, can they do this without Sequoia? And we did beat this team without Sequoia earlier (in the regular season), which was a good trial run, and it was nice to have pulled Sequoia out and let them work their chemistry and have the same results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freshman Liliana Camerino opened the scoring for Poly, on her way to a first-half hat trick and five goals in total. Pearl Taylor and Brooklyn Winterset each chipped in a hat trick for the Jackrabbits, while Elsa Plascencia added a pair of goals and Soriya Chheang added her name to the scoresheet in the final period.<\/p>\n

Defensively, goalie Citlalli Flores made 14 saves in the cage and the Jackrabbits didn\u2019t allow a goal in the second half as they pulled away.<\/p>\n

Newman\u2019s scoring night was a gradual build, starting with one goal in the opening quarter, three more in the second, and then four more in the third before she was pulled with just over two minutes left in that period. By then the Poly lead was a comfortable 15-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost like all of our varsity team, so this has been a very rebuilding year, and it\u2019s been a tough season figuring out where people go and building up team chemistry again,\u201d Newman explained. \u201cAnd I feel like this game really showed how much we\u2019ve put into becoming a team that has chemistry. And I feel like this was one of the best games we\u2019ve played.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Jackrabbits made a run to the CIF-SS Division 3 semifinals, and this team could be set up to make a similar run in a lower division. Landeros said he\u2019s gone through several different scenarios in his team\u2019s bracket, and he feels good about their chances if they bring a consistent focus and intensity each time they get in the water.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told them from the get go, \u2018What coach doesn\u2019t want to win CIF, right?\u2019\u201d Landeros said. \u201cBut they have to want it more than we do. And so far, the result shows that they\u2019re stepping on the gas, and it looks like they want it. So we\u2019ve just got to keep that mentality up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poly will hit the road for their second round matchup, where they\u2019ll face Walnut on Tuesday evening. The Mustangs defeated Norte Vista 13-6 in their opening-round matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s coverage of aquatic sports in Long Beach in 2025-26 is sponsored by\u00a0Watersafe Swim School. The562\u2019s coverage of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-166439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166439","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=166439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}