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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Melaiah Joseph wasn’t the most confident player headed into St. Anthony’s CIF Southern Section Division 2AA girls’ basketball second-round game on Saturday. “I didn’t expect it coming from warmups because I wasn’t really making too many shots,” Joseph said. “But I knew we had to come out with energy, pace and just push the ball […]

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Baseball Millikan Video

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Tyler Hendrickson

CIF Baseball Semifinal: Millikan vs. Hart Millikan hosted Hart in the 2021 CIF-SS Division 3 semifinals at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. For more coverage of all Long Beach sports, head to www.The562.org. We are a non-profit, community-funded media outlet in the City of Long Beach, covering primarily sports and education. Support The562.org

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Soccer Wilson

Girls’ Soccer: Wilson’s Fontenot Sisters Verbally Commit To Miami

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The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. Kai and Zoie Fontenot have played on the same soccer team ever since they were in kindergarten, and the Wilson juniors are planning to continue that tradition in college after verbally committing to the University of Miami earlier this month. dZoie […]