HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Nov. 2, 2000 12 AM PT

Department of bizarre statistics:

* Cleveland is 6-2 despite being outscored, 275-200. One of the victories was by forfeit.

* Seventeen Verdugo Hills players have receptions, although the Dons have completed only 52 passes. Kyle Mugavero leads the team with nine catches and seven players have one catch.

* Unbeaten Birmingham has rushed and passed for the same number of yards: 1,518.

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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.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

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