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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Long Beach Basketball Roundup

Mike Guardabascio

Boys Basketball Wilson def. Lakewood 73-63 Click here for our article, click here for our video. Windward def. Long Beach Poly 65-57 The Jackrabbits fell in the semifinal of the Bosco Basketball Classic despite 14 points from Malik Salahuddin and 13 points from Justin Rene. Poly will face Bosco in the third-place game on Saturday […]

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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week Three

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The562’s standings, schedule, and rankings stories are sponsored by International City Plumbers. We’re entering the third year of the new CIF-SS playoff format, and Long Beach teams made five CIF-SS championship appearances over the last two years under the competitive equity system. Clearly it’s been a big benefit to local schools with several teams making […]

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Today’s Long Beach CIF-SS Playoff Schedule

Mike Guardabascio

Four teams advanced in yesterday’s playoffs, and another 10 will take the field (or court (or pool)) tonight as they look to open the postseason with a win. Girls’ Basketball Division 1: Long Beach Poly vs Alemany, 7pm Division 2AA: Wilson at South Pasadena, 7pm Division 3A: Lakewood vs Bishop, 7pm Division 4AA: Jordan at […]