CIF State Soccer: Long Beach Poly at El Camino Real The Jackrabbits’ win puts them two wins away from a state title.
Author: Mike Guardabascio
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.
CIF State Soccer: Long Beach Poly Blanks El Camino Real
Long Beach Poly’s girls’ soccer team won just about every aspect of its CIF State Division II quarterfinal game against El Camino Real on Tuesday afternoon. In fact, the only thing that Poly lost was one of Oregon State signee Skylar Herrera’s nails, which was broken during contact along the sideline. In a twist that […]
The562.org’s Athletes Of The Week
Congratulations to this week’s Athletes of the Week and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. YOUTH Nathan Dowdell, Newcomb Track Newcomb Middle School eighth grader Nathan Dowdell won the All-City middle school championship in the 100 meter sprint last week, with a blazing time of 11.12, which would be a top 15 in […]
Cabrillo Falls In CIF-SS Soccer Championship Against Arlington
Cabrillo is bringing home the first CIF Southern Section championship plaque in school history–it’s just not the color they were hoping for, as they raised a silver plaque, and not a gold one. The Jaguars came up short in an evenly-matched game against Arlington in the CIF-SS Division 2 championship game at Warren, falling 1-0. […]
PHOTOS: Long Beach Poly Trackrabbit Invitational
We’ve got photos of Long Beach Poly, Wilson, Lakewood, and Millikan track and field athletes from Saturday’s Trackrabbit Invitational thanks to our guys at All-In Press.
PHOTOS: Cabrillo vs. Arlington CIF Soccer Championship
We’ve got some great pictures of the Jaguars’ first-ever CIF-SS championship game appearance thanks to photographer Stephen Dachman.
LBCC Blows Out LA Southwest, Wins Conference Title
Regardless of the sport or which level it’s played on, typically any game with a championship on the line will be an intense one. Friday night’s regular season finale between Long Beach City College and Southwest LA’s men’s basketball teams certainly broke the mold in that regard. Against an opponent playing an NBA All-Star Game […]
PHOTOS: LBCC vs. Southwest LA Women’s Basketball
We’ve got great shots of the Vikings’ season-ending win from photographer Joseph Kling.
PHOTOS: LBCC Men’s Basketball Wins Conference Title
We’ve got some great photos of the big Vikings win from photographer Joseph Kling.
Baseball: St. Anthony Off To A 4-0 Start
St. Anthony baseball is 4-0 after the first week of the baseball season, with doubleheader sweeps of Cabrillo and Bellflower, with 44 runs scored and 10 allowed. Senior Matt Duffy leads with 8 RBI, while junior Jacob Fong has seven hits and senior Andrew Donini is hitting .600 with 4 RBI. Junior Lucas Lehmar pitched […]