HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By MIKE BRESNAHAN

Oct. 20, 1999 12 AM PT

Tyler Ebell, who rushed for 643 yards in the first four games for Ventura, has since rushed for 89 yards against Oxnard and 54 yards against San Marcos.

A cause for alarm? Not really.

Ebell has been slowed by a deep thigh bruise suffered in the second half against Oxnard.

“He was really hobbled [last week against San Marcos],” Coach Phil McCune of Ventura said. “There’s a couple times he’s within inches of making big runs and he just can’t. But he’ll be OK.”

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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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