{"id":99370,"date":"2025-12-18T06:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99370\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:36:06","slug":"wilson-opens-league-with-win-over-jordan-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99370\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Opens League With Win Over Jordan \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 Wilson Athletics is sponsored by\u00a0Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The562\u2019s coverage of Jordan Athletics is sponsored by former LBUSD superintendent Chris Steinhauser and the Timu Foundation.<\/p>\n

Wilson girls\u2019 water polo has long been the dominant force in Long Beach. It took the Bruins just one quarter at last night\u2019s Moore League Showcase to show why they\u2019re once again the favorites to win the Moore League this year.<\/p>\n

Already leading Jordan 5-0 with time winding down in the opening period, Emmylou Kennedy floated a pass to fellow freshman Layla Salley, who fired an effort into the back of the cage from distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Salley was the sixth Bruin to score in a six-goal first quarter. Prompted by that early advantage, Wilson cruised to a 12-7 victory over the Panthers in the Moore League showcase at Lakewood\u2019s Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re an Open Division team,\u201d Wilson head coach Barry O\u2019Dea said. \u201cJordan is a young program. They\u2019re getting themselves together, and we wanted to come out and set a good tone for the Moore League.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins\u2019 diverse scoring through the first seven minutes gave them the freedom to experiment in the following quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After goalkeeper Teagan Shandrew-Pearsall made a couple of one-handed stops in the early going, O\u2019Dea moved her into the field. Playing on the opposite end of the pool, the senior Bucknell commit scored several times in the second quarter as Wilson\u2019s goal tally ballooned into double digits.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see her go out there and play some field, and win a sprint, and score a goal out at center, it was cool,\u201d O\u2019Dea said.<\/p>\n

The Bruins added an 11th, and final first-half score to their tally, when junior Frankie Garcia \u2014 who was holding off a defender \u2014 converted a right-handed effort that sailed into the net as the buzzer sounded.<\/p>\n

Jordan pulled some goals back over the final two quarters \u2014 while ending the game on a 4-0 run \u2014 but Wilson\u2019s early clinicality essentially had the bout decided by halftime.<\/p>\n

Shandrew-Pearsall added a final goal for good measure. She likely could\u2019ve had a couple more, but looked to get teammates involved instead, with the result already ensured.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were trying to make that as fun as we could without running up the score,\u201d O\u2019Dea said.<\/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":99371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-99370","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\/99370","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=99370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}