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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CIF Soccer: Long Beach Poly Drops Semifinal To Sunny Hills On PK Heartbreak

Mike Guardabascio

Long Beach Poly certainly had its chances against Sunny Hills in a Division 2 girls’ soccer semifinal hosted at Wilson High on Saturday afternoon, but the Jackrabbits came up one moment short of their first CIF-SS championship game in more than two decades. Strong wind created and suffocated plenty of chances in a scoreless game […]

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Feature: Peyton Watson Eager To Prove Himself For Long Beach Poly

Mike Guardabascio

Peyton Watson is an enigma. The junior is entering the 2019-20 high school basketball season ranked the No. 32 player in the 2021 class by 247 Sports, having spent some of the summer playing for the USA Basketball Junior National team. Watson is a 6’7” positionless player who has shown flashes of brilliance at every […]

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Long Beach Football Schedule, CIF Playoffs

Mike Guardabascio

The playoffs start this Friday, with four Long Beach schools in action. Here’s a full schedule so you can plan your night and be sure to click here four our breakdown of all the games. Division 1: Long Beach Poly vs. JSerra at Veterans Memorial Stadium, 7:30 p.m. Division 6: Wilson at Mira Costa, 7:30 […]