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.
After Cabrillo’s first-round CIF Southern Section Division 2 playoff soccer game against El Rancho had reached the end of regulation, there were two moments when Leonardo Corona experienced fear. The first was before play began—the Jaguars had been stung in sudden death overtime in the playoffs last year, and he didn’t want his team to […]