An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. The Wilson girls’ basketball team beat Millikan last week, 37-25, to wrap up their first season sweep of Millikan in 15 years. The Bruins were […]
In her 33 seasons coaching the Millikan girls’ basketball team, Lorene Morgan has had many more memorable wins than Friday evening’s 70-13 victory over Compton. Morgan won the school’s only CIF-SS girls’ basketball championship, in 2014, and several other tournament and league crowns. Friday’s game, in a reduced-capacity gym due to COVID-19 restrictions, did not […]