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.
The release of the CIF Southern Section girls’ volleyball playoff brackets reveal a difficult path for Long Beach’s five playoff teams, with no one in the Moore League getting a home match in their opening round. Lakewood The Lancers are the undefeated Moore League champions, having not dropped a set the entire way through league […]
The562’s coverage of track and field is sponsored by Bryson Financial A huge contingent of Long Beach athletes representing several schools will compete at today’s CIF-SS Track & Field prelims, trying to make next weekend’s CIF-SS Finals. The city has 93 entries in today’s prelims–we’ll update you tonight on who got through. Long Beach Poly (Division 1: […]
Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Track & Field Masters Meet was an incredible array of next-level talent, as always. Arguably the best performance of the day went to a newcomer, however, as Millikan’s Samarra Monrroy stole the show in the 400. The freshman not only won Masters gold (the only 9th grader to do so), she […]
