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.
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Lakewood has won at least a share of the last five Moore League girls’ volleyball titles, and the Lancers opened league play with a typical 25-14, 25-13, 25-21 win at Millikan on Thursday. Senior Julia Crawford had 17 kills, two hitting errors, and seven assists for the Lancers while setter Moni Vivao finished with 25 […]
If you believe the rankings, this isn’t Long Beach Poly’s year. The Jackrabbits aren’t in the national polls, and they’re No. 11 in the first CIF-SS rankings of the year. Jackrabbits head coach Carl Buggs isn’t that worried about it. That’s in large part because he remembers what it was like when he and his […]
