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 Millikan athletics in the 2023-24 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. Senior Audrey Stewart provided three goals and three assists for Millikan in a 14-0 Moore League girls’ soccer win over Compton earlier this week. The Rams 6-0-1 (4-0) host Long Beach Poly tonight at 6:30 p.m. PHOTOS COURTESY JESSE OAKES
There’s nowhere for the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team to go but up. The 49ers are coming off a 10-19 season in Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer’s first season as head coach, a rebuilding season that was also the worst winning percentage in the history of the program. The numbers don’t tell the story of a team […]