HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By MIKE BRESNAHAN

Oct. 1, 1999 12 AM PT

Ventura is off to its best start since 1992, but don’t plan a parade route yet.

“Being 3-0 is not bad,” Coach Phil McCune said. “But I look at the records of the teams we’ve beat and our opponents have one [combined] win. We’re not that good yet.”

Simi Valley is 0-3, Royal is 1-2 and Moorpark is 0-3 after forfeiting a victory over Channel Islands because of two ineligible players.

Ventura, which plays at Rio Mesa tonight, has run to glory with Tyler Ebell, who has rushed for 492 yards, the fifth-best mark in the region.

The Cougars might not upend two-time defending champion Buena in the Channel League. But the future is bright--33 players, including Ebell, return. “Our young kids are getting better,” McCune said.

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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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