SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL FINALS

By STEVE HENSON

June 4, 2000 12 AM PT

San Luis Obispo 5, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 4--Scott Dodge’s single in the bottom of the seventh inning drove in Baker Krukow with the winning run in the Division IV championship game at Dodger Stadium.

San Luis Obispo (23-7) won its first championship in five title-game appearances.

Notre Dame (19-10) had tied the score, 4-4, on James Rivero’s two-out home run in the top of the seventh.

Chalon Tietje homered for San Luis Obispo in the first inning.

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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.

SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL FINALS

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