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.
Story by Julian Lopez VIDEO HIGHLIGHT COMING FRIDAY NIGHT As Long Beach Poly sophomore Josie Liebzeit swam the anchor leg of the 400 yard freestyle relay at the 2018 Moore League girls’ swim finals on Thursday at Cabrillo High, a chant of “three-peat, three-peat” broke out among the Poly faithful. For the first time in […]
Five Long Beach high school baseball teams are starting the CIF Southern Section playoffs this week, and two of them are already preparing for wild card games on Tuesday. Long Beach Poly (19-8-1, 10-2) won its first Moore League title since 2012, and just their second since 1986. The Jackrabbits finished the regular season unranked […]