HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Dec. 1, 1999 12 AM PT

George Hurley isn’t the only member of his family preparing a team for the semifinals.

Ethan Hurley, son of the longtime Newbury Park coach, is an assistant at Sahuaro High in Tucson, Ariz., which has advanced to the state 4-A semifinals.

Newbury Park has played Sahuaro twice, losing, 31-28, last season and winning, 32-28, in 1997.

Ryan Hurley, Ethan’s brother, also will have a busy weekend. He is the left guard at Ventura College, which plays Hancock in a bowl game Saturday at Rio Mesa High.

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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.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

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