Mike Guardabascio
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.
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Four Long Beach Water Polo Teams Make CIF-SS Playoffs

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s coverage of aquatic sports in Long Beach is sponsored by the Aquatic Capital of America Foundation. Four Long Beach water polo teams made the CIF Southern Section playoffs, and learned their postseason paths with the release of the CIF-SS brackets on Saturday morning.  Division 1 Moore League champion WIlson (17-11) gets a home game […]

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Long Beach Girls’ Basketball Teams Off To Great Start

Mike Guardabascio

There’s no doubt at this point that the 2020 winter season is the season of girls’ basketball. Long Beach Poly, Millikan, Wilson, St. Anthony and Compton are all ranked in the CIF-SS polls that came out this week, with the Jackrabbits, Rams, and Bruins all in the top three in their respective divisions. The Jackrabbits […]

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Football: Wilson Sails Past Huntington Beach

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The Wilson Bruins showed why they’re the hottest team in Long Beach this week with a 43-7 win over visiting Huntington Beach on Friday. “If we can play that way every week we proved we can do something this year,” Wilson coach Mark Ziegenhagen said. “They’re doing a great job of focusing.” Senior quarterback Ryan […]