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.
In a showdown of unbeaten Big West squads, Long Beach State proved to be a step or two behind UC Davis at this point in the season. The Aggies remained unbeaten atop the women’s basketball standings with a pair of impressive wins at Walter Pyramid over the weekend. The story was essentially the same in […]
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2022-23 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. Opening night at George Allen Field was certainly exciting for Long Beach State women’s soccer as they battled back twice to earn a 2-2 tie against visiting Pacific. “We played a very solid Pacific team,” LBSU coach Mauricio Ingrassia […]
Head coach Wesley Rosenbaum is back for the Panthers as head coach in his third year. Rosenbaum is happy with the progress the North Side has made in these past three years, but is still hungry for more success. “We built this program from the ground up,” Rosenbaum said. “We went from losing by 40 […]
