Area Teams Featured in Little League Event

By STEVE HENSON

July 26, 1996 12 AM PT

Conejo Valley Little League is hosting the senior division (14-15 year-olds) state tournament, beginning Saturday at Cal Lutheran and Thousand Oaks High.

Teams from the area in the eight-team tournament are Thousand Oaks and La Crescenta. Most of the players on the Thousand Oaks team were members of the league’s 1994 world series champion 13-year-old team.

The tournament opens with games at noon and 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The winner of the tournament, which concludes Thursday, advances to the western regional.

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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.

Area Teams Featured in Little League Event

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