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 coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. The562’s coverage of Jordan Athletics is sponsored by former LBUSD superintendent Chris Steinhauser and the Timu Foundation.
The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball team played good defense but couldn’t come up with enough scoring to beat Windward on the road in the CIF Southern Section Open Division pool play finale on Saturday night. A trip to Friday’s Open Division championship was at stake, but that spot went to the Wildcats after a […]
