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By STEVE HENSON

Feb. 12, 1998 12 AM PT

* EASTERN WASHINGTON (11-9, 5-5 Big Sky) at CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE (8-12, 4-6), 7--The Matadors begin a five-game home stretch with the momentum of an 87-78 Big Sky Conference victory at Montana State, their best performance of the season. The offensive production inside by forwards Jabari Simmons and Jeff Parris has improved: Simmons scored a season-high 23 against Montana State and Parris made all seven of his shots and is shooting 61.6%.

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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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