{"id":201087,"date":"2026-03-02T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201087\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:14:08","slug":"the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week-the562-org-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201087\/","title":{"rendered":"The562.org\u2019s Athletes of the Week \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the562.org\/2022\/03\/23\/the-century-club-sponsors-the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Century Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to the Long Beach Century Club and Naples Rib Company for their support.<\/p>\n<p>HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n<p>Jayla Cortes, Millikan Girls\u2019 Soccer<\/p>\n<p>The Millikan Rams just made history with a CIF-SS DII championship, and Jayla Cortes was a huge part of the victory. The sophomore netted the only goal in the match, scoring in the difference maker in the fifth minute to seal the 1-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>Jaxson Danell, Wilson Boys\u2019 Lacrosse<\/p>\n<p>Moore League lacrosse season is getting underway, and the Wilson Bruins are already making some noise. Jaxson Danell scored a hat trick in Wilson\u2019s 9-0 win over Lakewood.<\/p>\n<p>Cash Riordan, Wilson Boys\u2019 Lacrosse<\/p>\n<p>The Wilson Bruins opened up their Moore League boys\u2019 lacrosse season in dominant fashion. In a 9-0 shutout against the Lakewood Lancers, Cash Riordan recorded a hat trick to help secure the win.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Ligenza, Wilson Girls\u2019 Lacrosse<\/p>\n<p>The Wilson girls\u2019 lacrosse team started their Moore League season off with a big win against Lakewood. Megan Ligenza scored four goals in the 16-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia Nulty, Wilson Girls\u2019 Lacrosse<\/p>\n<p>Amelia Nulty came out strong in Wilson\u2019s Moore League opener against the Lakewood Lancers. She scored four goals as the Bruins started their season out with a dominant victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Wafer, Lakewood Girls\u2019 Wrestling<\/p>\n<p>Lakewood\u2019s Ashley Wafer has had a historic high school wrestling career. She capped it off with a personal best third-place finish, taking the bronze medal at the CIF State Wrestling Championship in the 235-pound bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Berlynn Solia-Tago, Long Beach Poly Girls\u2019 Wrestling<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly\u2019s Berlynn Solia-Tago made program history at the CIF State Wrestling Championships. She was one of two Jackrabbits to place at state, finishing fourth in the 170-pound bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Selieni Paseka, Long Beach Poly Girls\u2019 Wrestling<\/p>\n<p>Selieni Paseka joined Solia-Tago as one of the first wrestlers in Jackrabbits\u2019 history to podium. Paseka took sixth place in the 190-pound bracket at the CIF State Wrestling Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the Long Beach Century Club. Congratulations to our Athletes of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-201087","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\/201087","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=201087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}