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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Cross Country: Wilson’s Pincherli, Mejia Win at El Dorado

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The562’s cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by Joe Carlson & Debbie Hughes. Wednesday was a good day for the Wilson Bruins, who swept the two varsity races at the El Dorado Park Moore League Cluster Meet. Seniors Tommy Pincherli and Nadia Mejia won the boys’ and girls’ races, respectively, with the […]

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Long Beach CIFSS Football Playoff Schedule

Mike Guardabascio

We’ve got three Moore League teams in the CIF-SS football quarterfinals. Here’s when and where they’re playing on Friday. Division 1 Long Beach Poly @ Los Alamitos (Veterans Memorial Stadium, 7:30 p.m.) Division 4 Millikan vs. Cypress, 7 p.m. Division 8 Lakewood @ Redondo Union, 7 p.m.

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CIF Baseball: St. Anthony Blows Out Schurr in Playoff Opener

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For two and a half innings, it looked like the St. Anthony baseball team was on its way to a pitching duel after the Saints’ Tyler Harris and Schurr’s Josh Espinosa managed the damage as the Saints held onto a 1-0 lead after two.  But the Saints’ bats came alive in the 3rd inning as […]