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.
The562’s coverage of Dirtbags Baseball for the 2023 season is sponsored by P2S, Inc. Visit p2sinc.com to learn more. For the second consecutive night the Long Beach State Dirtbags made some serious noise in the bottom of the night inning only to fall short and lose to Cal State Northridge 3-2 on Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. […]