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.
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by JuJu Smith-Schuster and the JuJu Foundation.
After an exciting regular season in Long Beach for boys’ water polo, three teams are set to start the CIF-SS playoff this week, as Wilson, Millikan, and Long Beach Poly will all host first-round games on Tuesday evening at 5 p.m. Second round games will be Thursday, with quarterfinals on Saturday for all who advance. […]
Long Beach State women’s soccer dominated visiting St. John’s 6-0 on Friday night as Dana Fujikuni, Taylor Bistline, Rocio Rodriguez, Mackenzie Magaoay and Makayla Soll all scored goals to tie the school record for margin of victory. Fujikuni scored two of the first three goals, and now leads the team with three goals on the […]
