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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The562’s coverage of girls’ flag football is sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers. The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. Tuesday night’s flag football matchup between Lakewood and Knight had a bit of everything that you might expect for two teams’ first ever playoff game—a delayed kickoff, sluggish starts, and a […]
The Wilson boys’ lacrosse team used a big second half to beat the Glendale Dynamiters 12-8 on Wednesday. The two teams were tied 8-8 at halftime, and Wilson goalkeeper John Legaspi made seven saves in the in the final quarter to hold off Glendale. Charley Littleworth and Malachi Valenzuela-Mier each scored a hat trick for […]
