{"id":212214,"date":"2026-03-09T22:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212214\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:32:15","slug":"the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week-the562-org-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212214\/","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>Tate Hammond, Long Beach Poly Baseball<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly avenged last year\u2019s loss to Valley Christian by defeating the Defenders 7-1 this year. UCLA commit Tate Hammond had a big offensive day going 3\/4 with two singles, a double and three RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Malakai Pruitt, Long Beach Poly Baseball<\/p>\n<p>Malakai Pruitt had a big day on the mound for the Jackrabbits in their win against Valley Christian. Pruitt pitched the first complete game for Long Beach Poly, only allowing four hits, striking out five and walking none.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Tanioco, Wilson Girls\u2019 Lacrosse<\/p>\n<p>Wilson defeated league rival Downey in a 3-2 overtime thriller last week. Junior attacker Fiona Tanioco scored two of Wilson\u2019s goals including the game-winner 13 seconds into overtime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra \u201cFurby\u201d Rios, Millikan Girls\u2019 Soccer<\/p>\n<p>The Millikan girls\u2019 soccer team had an extraordinary playoff run this year. Alexandra \u201cFurby\u201d Rios got the scoring started in their 7-0 first-round CIF State win by finding the back of the net in the first minute.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Ortiz, Millikan Girls\u2019 Soccer<\/p>\n<p>Millikan\u2019s playoff run saw success on both the offensive and defensive side of things. Goalkeeper Samantha Ortiz led the Rams to their 13th straight clean sheet and came up clutch in the PK shootout to lead Millikan\u2019s second-round win in the CIF State tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Kaden Wright, Wilson Boys\u2019 Lacrosse<\/p>\n<p>Wilson boys\u2019 lacrosse secured a win over their rivals in Long Beach Poly. Kaden Wright had a hat trick in the Bruins\u2019 12-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Bruce, Wilson Boys\u2019 Lacrosse<\/p>\n<p>On the defensive side of Wilson\u2019s win against Long Beach Poly, Ryan Bruce held the Bruins down. Bruce continued his strong play and allowed just one goal to go with his four saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COLLEGE<\/p>\n<p>Rori Denness-Lamont, LBSU Track &amp; Field<\/p>\n<p>Rori Denness-Lamont had a historic showing for the Beach in women\u2019s javelin. The graduate student broke a school record and won her event with a throw of 53.89 meters (176\u20199\u201d).<\/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":212215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-212214","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\/212214","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=212214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}