Mike Guardabascio
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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Boys’ Basketball With three days of games left (Friday, next Tuesday and Thursday) it’s all but certain that Long Beach Poly will be the league champion–at 9-0, they’d need to lose all three games to end up tied with Compton. Below them, Compton and Millikan are in second and third with Wilson and Lakewood in […]

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Long Beach Poly pitcher John Dameron had a special outing against Jordan last week, tossing a no-hitter under the Blair Fields lights in a 15-0 win. Dameron took a perfect game into the seventh inning before walking a batter. He had four strikeouts in the game as Poly went on to win 15-0. The Jackrabbits […]

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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week Seven

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The562’s standings, schedule, and rankings stories are sponsored by International City Plumbers. The562’s coverage of football in 2023-24 is sponsored in part by the MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center Foundation and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Foundation We’re entering the third year of the new CIF-SS playoff format, and Long Beach teams made five CIF-SS […]