SOUTHLAND ROUNDUP

By STEVE HENSON

Dec. 3, 1997 12 AM PT

San Diego 71, Cal State Northridge 69--A three-point basket by Nosa Obasohan with two seconds to play pulled the Toreros past the Matadors before 675 at the Sports Center in San Diego.

Northridge (1-3) led, 69-64, on a driving layup in traffic by Jabari Simmons, but did not score in the final 2:30.

Obasohan, a senior whose 17 points matched his career high, made two free throws with two minutes left and Brian Miles scored seconds later to pull San Diego (3-2) within one before Obasohan’s winning basket.

Miles led the Toreros with 18 points. Greg Minor scored 21 points for Northridge.

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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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