HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By MIKE BRESNAHAN

Nov. 11, 1999 12 AM PT

The Newbury Park-Thousand Oaks game will determine second place in the Marmonte League.

But it likely won’t be the shootout it was last season.

Thousand Oaks won, 42-41, in a regular-season finale last year, but neither team has shown a consistent offense recently.

Thousand Oaks (6-3, 4-1) was shut out by Westlake three weeks ago and scored only 14 points against Royal two weeks ago.

Newbury Park (5-4, 4-1) averaged 35 points a game from 1995-98, but is averaging 23.6 points this season.

The Panthers have topped 28 points only once.

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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.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

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