Mike Guardabascio
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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The CIF-SS released its baseball brackets on Sunday morning, revealing who Long Beach’s four playoff baseball teams would be playing next week. Moore League champions Long Beach Poly and Santa Fe League champions St. Anthony each earned their home games in the first round by winning league titles, and Lakewood will also be at home […]

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Baseball: Millikan Races Past Wilson For 12-3 Win

Tyler Hendrickson

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 rain and sloppy field conditions have made it difficult to play baseball the past couple weeks. For the Millikan Rams, they’d gone nine days […]

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CIF Basketball: Cummings Powers Long Beach Poly Into Championship Game

Mike Guardabascio

Tuesday was a cold day in Southern California–fortunately, Long Beach Poly had a flamethrower. On the heat of 25 points from senior Gabe Cummings, the Jackrabbits were able to outlast Foothill on the road in the CIF-SS Division 2AA semifinals. Cummings’ last shot won the game for Poly breaking a tie score with 38 seconds […]