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.
The562’s high school baseball and softball coverage for the 2022 season is sponsored by LBUSD Board of Education Member Megan Kerr. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009.
It was more than an hour after Wilson sophomore Rachel Glenn had proven herself California’s best high school high jumper, and the effusive Glenn was still on the field. First there were photos, then a trip to the top of the podium to be crowned the co-champion alongside Riverside Poly’s Abbie Burke. Then a wave […]
