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 high school baseball and softball coverage for the 2022 season is sponsored by LBUSD Board of Education Member Megan Kerr The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009 The first five innings of the CIF Southern Section Division 4 opener between Wilson and St. Anthony on Thursday at […]
With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]
The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. The562’s coverage of Cabrillo Athletics is sponsored by the Cohn Family. The Jags are gearing up for another football season on the Westside. Head coach Shane Gonzales is in his fourth year leading Cabrillo. Gonzales said his team is young this […]
