HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Nov. 7, 2000 12 AM PT

The season is over for Lionel Sanchez, but he is recovering from a neck injury he sustained Friday.

The Birmingham defensive lineman was released from the hospital Sunday and is walking.

“We are all relieved,” said Jesse Sanchez, 19, Lionel’s brother. “He’s up and walking and went to school [Monday] to get assignments.”

Sanchez, a senior, will wear a neck brace for three weeks.

The game against Granada Hills was halted for more than 30 minutes and Sanchez was taken away on a stretcher while players from both teams cheered for him.

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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.

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