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.
Here are a few Long Beach sporting events happening this weekend. THURSDAY High School Girls’ Volleyball, 4:30 p.m. Today marks the second round of Moore League play, and it is headlined by first-place Poly hosting Millikan. In other action, Wilson is at Cabrillo and Jordan is at Compton. High School Girls’ Golf, 2:30 p.m. The […]
The season opener didn’t go as planned for Long Beach State men’s basketball. Instead of starting the campaign at UCLA on Monday, the Beach struggled to find a rhythm and fell at Loyola Marymount University 85-61 on Friday night. LBSU (0-1) shot 32 percent from the floor (19-for-59) and had multiple five-minute stretches without a […]
Playing far from home in their CIF-SS Division 1 opener, the Long Beach Poly girls’ soccer team fell behind 2-0, and things were looking bleak. The Jackrabbits tied it up, fell behind again, tied it up again, and then finally put in the game-winner with 10 minutes left on the clock to shock Temecula Valley, […]