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.
Long Beach Poly certainly had its chances against Sunny Hills in a Division 2 girls’ soccer semifinal hosted at Wilson High on Saturday afternoon, but the Jackrabbits came up one moment short of their first CIF-SS championship game in more than two decades. Strong wind created and suffocated plenty of chances in a scoreless game […]
There was plenty of hand-wringing in Ram Land earlier this year when football coach Justin Utupo stepped down to pursue collegiate opportunities (he’s an assistant at Azusa Pacific this season). The nervousness was well-founded. With the energetic young Utupo at the helm, Millikan went from a 1-9 season to being the second-best team in Long […]
Basketball can be a very complicated sport, or it can be a very simple sport. On Wednesday evening in the quarterfinals of the Bosco Winter Classic, Long Beach Poly made it very simple: the Jackrabbits had the best player on the floor, and they won. Junior Peyton Watson put on a show with 30 points, […]
