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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Long Beach Shines At CIF-SS Track & Field Prelims

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As the postseason begins, a promising track and field season for Long Beach continues to look like it might end in a special place. At last weekend’s CIF Southern Section Track and Field prelims, 46 entries from the Moore League and St. Anthony qualified for this weekend’s CIF-SS finals, which will be held at El […]

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All-City Athletes of the Year: Hamilton, Ricks, Parra Bring Home Top Honors

Mike Guardabascio

Our All-City Athletes of the Year award has been around for more than a decade, just a fraction of the 120+ year history of amazing youth athletes in Long Beach. But over the last 11 years we’ve gotten a good look at the top flight of the city’s talent pool: previous recipients of this award […]

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CIF Track: Millikan, Lakewood Send Four To Masters

Mike Guardabascio

Millikan and Lakewood share the same blueprint for their campuses, and the two schools had very similar days on Saturday at the CIF-SS Division 1 Track & Field Finals, with young talent showing that the future is bright for the Rams and Lancers. Millikan’s Samarra Monrroy finished second in the 400 and eighth in the […]