Mike Guardabascio
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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Basketball: Wilson Girls Beat Millikan, Sweep Rams This Year

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. The Wilson girls’ basketball team beat Millikan last week, 37-25, to wrap up their first season sweep of Millikan in 15 years. The Bruins were […]

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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week Two

Mike Guardabascio

With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]

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Long Beach Football Schedule, Week Eight

Mike Guardabascio

The562’s coverage of football in 2024-25 is sponsored by The Terry Donahue Memorial California Showcase. It’s the fourth week of the high school football season and we’ve got a bunch of great games. All games 7pm unless otherwise noted. Thursday, October 10 St. Anthony @ La Salle Friday, October 11 Millikan vs Long Beach Poly […]