Mike Guardabascio
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.
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Middle School Stars Shine at Boys’ All City Track and Field Championship Meet

Avery Peck

On Wednesday night, Long Beach’s fastest middle school boys took to the track at Wilson High School to compete with their teams one final time this season and crown the All City Champions in each division.  In the end, Stanford emerged victorious in Division 1 with 70 points, Newcomb edged out Cubberly by one point […]

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All-City Dual-Sport Athletes of the Year: Kenny Barnabee, Xavier Heard

Tyler Hendrickson

Hopefully there will never need to be another sports schedule like the one we saw this past spring. Sports seasons overlapped in new and difficult ways, making it even more challenging for multi-sport athletes to pursue their various passions. There were a number of athletes who navigated those choppy waters, but two of them stood […]

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CIF Track: Wilson Brings Home First Girls CIF-SS Title Since 2006

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s coverage of track and field is sponsored by Bryson Financial  The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. It was a special day for the Wilson track and field program on Saturday at Moorpark in the CIF Southern Section Finals. The long (very long) drive to Moorpark was worth […]