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.
Four Long Beach high school softball teams learned their playoff fate on Monday morning with the release of the CIF Southern Section playoff brackets. Three of them are in the same division. Division 2 Millikan (19-8) is the five-time Moore League champion but must hit the road for the first round at Moorpark on Thursday. […]