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.
Long Beach Poly football transfer Madden Iamaleava has been ruled ineligible with the Jackrabbits by the CIF Southern Section, according to the CIF-SS website. In a decision dated Friday but posted to the CIF-SS website Monday, Iamaleava’s status is listed as “denied” with the note “Denied athletic eligibility in all sports at Poly/Long Beach or […]
The Lakewood Lancers are coming off of a rebuilding year, so coach Phil Geiger said he has a very different outlook on this season for his Lancers. “Lots of youth and inexperience meant that we were developing fundamentals all season long,” Geiger said. “I have a big group of sophomores who spent last season learning […]
Tuesday afternoon’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 second-round playoff baseball game between Long Beach Poly and Great Oak ended in disappointment for the Jackrabbits—but not heartbreak. Poly was outplayed on their campus field but their heads weren’t hung low after a 6-1 loss to the Wolfpack. In large part that’s because the Jackrabbits already achieved […]