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 coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. The last Moore League boys’ soccer game of the calendar year was the most unpredictable of this season. Long Beach Poly hosted Wilson on Wednesday night during a heavy rainstorm. The […]
The Long Beach Poly boys’ basketball team is in the midst of a five games in seven days slog in the middle of the season. At times during Wednesday evening’s road trip to Millikan, that was obvious, with head coach Shelton Diggs subbing liberally and trying to keep his starters fresh. The Jackrabbits weren’t their […]
Long Beach Poly (6-3, 5-0) will try to sew up an undefeated Moore League championship tonight at Veterans Memorial Stadium against a Lakewood team (4-5, 3-2) that’s still trying to grab a playoff spot. If Lakewood wins, Millikan loses to Poly, and Compton loses to Cabrillo, they’d claim third place by themselves. If the Lancers […]
