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 Poly’s girls’ soccer team won just about every aspect of its CIF State Division II quarterfinal game against El Camino Real on Tuesday afternoon. In fact, the only thing that Poly lost was one of Oregon State signee Skylar Herrera’s nails, which was broken during contact along the sideline. In a twist that […]