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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Cross Country: Five-Way First Place Tie, Wilson Girls Win At Moore League Opener

Mike Guardabascio

It was an eventful day at El Dorado Park on Wednesday to open the Moore League cross country season. On the boys’ side, a potentially historic five-way tie at first place among Poly teammates created some confusion in the official results, and on the girls’ side Wilson looks poised to end Poly’s 14-year streak of […]

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The562.org’s Athletes of the Week

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Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. HIGH SCHOOL Jai Smith, Compton Football Compton earned their first playoff spot since 2008 with a win over Cabrillo, and once again it was senior Jai Smith leading the way. Smith had 247 yards rushing and three touchdowns in […]

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CIF Baseball: Lakewood Falls to Maranatha in Quarters

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The562’s high school baseball and softball coverage for the 2022 season is sponsored by LBUSD Board of Education Member Megan Kerr. The Lakewood baseball team’s recipe for success for the first two rounds of the CIF Southern Section Division 2 playoffs was great pitching and play solid defense to limit power-hitting teams to minimal success.  With […]