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.
Ryan Pettway and Michael Bruner were very different people three years ago. Pettway was an undisciplined baseball player who dreamt of quarterbacking the Wilson football team, and Bruner was a frustrated tight end who wanted to play wide receiver on the freshman squad. Last night against Huntington Beach the senior Pettway lined up as the […]