PACIFIC LEAGUE

By MIKE BRESNAHAN

March 17, 1998 12 AM PT

Crescenta Valley won the league title last season and returns pitcher Josh Herman, the league’s player of the year. Joining Herman is all-league outfielder Nathan Barber . . . . Arcadia, the runner-up last year, and Hoover, which has 6-5 third baseman Mark Hull, could press Crescenta Valley for first place. Hull is one of six starters back for Hoover. . . . Glendale lost seven starters, but catcher Ryan Noll returns after batting .457 with 10 doubles and 39 RBIs.

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.