WEST

WEST

By STEVE HENSON

May 27, 1996 12 AM PT

Cal State Northridge gave up five runs in the first inning and never recovered, falling to Florida State, 9-2, in the West final.

Florida State (51-15) went 4-0 in the regional to advance to the World Series for the 15th time and third year in a row.

Left-hander Steve Morgan, 2-0 in the regional, gave up three hits and two runs in six-plus innings and was named the most valuable player. Mark Chavez struck out eight and gave up no hits over the last three innings.

A two-run home run by Casey Cheshier in the seventh inning was all the offense Northridge (52-18) could muster the day after eliminating Mississippi State and Stanford in one-run victories.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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