HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By MIKE BRESNAHAN

Dec. 9, 1999 12 AM PT

Westlake’s defense better be ready Friday against San Luis Obispo in the Division IV championship.

The Warriors, allowing only 8.8 points and 179.1 yards per game, go up against a team that has scored 118 points in three playoff games.

San Luis Obispo (12-1) has excelled despite losing running back Kani Walker to a broken leg in the second-to-last game of the regular season.

“He’d have over 2,000 yards by now,” said Coach Vic Ecklund of San Luis Obispo.

Khaled Elmasri has picked up the slack. Elmasri, who shared time with Walker in the Tigers’ I-formation, is approaching 1,200 yards rushing.

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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.

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