An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors 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.
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We’ve got some great photos from Jordan Bell’s charity basketball game in the Walter Pyramid, which raised money for the Race to Erase MS charity. All photos by photographer Stephen Dachman.
Here are the All-Moore League honorees for the girls’ soccer season, as voted on by the league’s head coaches. Subscribe to the562 on GiveButter to make a recurring donation and keep Long Beach sports coverage free!