Author: 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.
PHOTOS: Long Beach State vs. UC Irvine Men’s Volleyball
We’ve got some great photos of the 49ers’ five-set win taken by photographer Stephen Dachman.
Baseball: Cabrillo Pushes Long Beach Poly In Tight League Game
Cabrillo baseball coach Pedro Torres said before the season that his team wanted to hang its hat on defense and competitive fire. His Jaguars must have been listening, because Cabrillo gave Long Beach Poly everything they could handle on Thursday afternoon at Blair Field. The two teams were tied headed to the seventh inning before […]
Baseball: Long Beach Poly Tops Lakewood In Thriller
Long Beach Poly and Lakewood crammed an entire Moore League season’s worth of offense into a Tuesday afternoon extra-innings thriller at the Gwynn Family Field on Poly’s campus. The Jackrabbits ended up winning a wild dash home by Nolan Brown, who scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning to seal […]
PHOTOS: Long Beach Poly vs. Lakewood Baseball
We’ve got some great shots from the extra-innings thriller taken by photographer Art O’Neill.
Baseball Preview: Millikan Rams
The balance of power shifts slowly in the Moore League but it’s been moving East towards Millikan the last few years. The Rams (7-6, 3-0) have had a share of the league championship three of the last four seasons including an outright title in 2016. If Millikan wins a share of the title again this […]
Baseball Preview: Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits
Last year was a painful introduction to Moore League baseball for Poly coach Brent Lavoie, whose team went 6-6 in league, losing every game to the league’s other playoff teams. The Jackrabbits (8-8, 1-0) were competitive in all but one of those losses, with five of them coming by nine runs including a 1-0 loss […]
Baseball Preview: Jordan Panthers
First-year Jordan coach Bryan Whitfield takes over for Roger Penticoff and has already had some success thanks to a more competitive nonleague schedule. The Panthers won just six games combined the last two years but are off to a 3-7 start already just a few weeks into the year. “We’ve got more wins in us, […]