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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All of The562’s water polo coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Aqualand. Visit AqualandOfTheFree.com to learn more. For the first time ever there will be four Moore League boys’ water polo teams playing in the CIF Southern Section quarterfinals round on Saturday after three dominant wins on Thursday. Click here for coverage of Long […]

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Dean Ormonde had never hit a homerun. Hold that. “Well, I mean I did in 12U when the fences were like 200 feet,” he said. Depending on how you look at it, Ormonde picked a great time for his first–or second–career homer, as his first-inning blast gave Millikan a huge boost in a road CIF-SS […]