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.
Fourth-year Long Beach Poly coach Ish Pluton is excited about his team’s chances this year, mainly because of the team’s great chemistry and some strong senior leadership, both of which were buoyed by a team trip to Hawaii in the summer. “This team wants it, they’re all on the same page, they’re very hard-working,” Pluton […]
The Long Beach Poly girls’ basketball CIF-SS Open Division loss to Corona Centennial on Wednesday posed more questions than answers. Namely, about the Open Division tiebreaker. If the Jackrabbits win at Windward tonight at 7 p.m., it would create a three-way tie in the pool with Poly, Windward, and Centennial all at 2-1, having beaten […]
