HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Nov. 14, 2000 12 AM PT

By anyone’s standards it was a fine performance. By Van Nuys’ standards, it was an offensive avalanche.

The Wolves defeated Reseda, 40-21, by rushing for 340 yards and scoring 23 more points than they had in any other game. Van Nuys had scored only 82 points in nine previous games.

The victory was the second in a row after eight losses for the Wolves, who defeated Monroe, 7-0. The modest streak vaulted them into the City Invitational playoffs, a wholly unexpected development.

Against Reseda, Eddie Kirakosian rushed for 244 yards. He will be needed in the playoff opener against Roosevelt (7-3) because Van Nuys has had little success through the air.

The Wolves have not thrown a touchdown pass all season and two quarterbacks have combined to complete 50 of 128 passes.

The running game, however, is heating up. In addition to Kirakosian, who has 731 yards, quarterback Abel Pulido is a dangerous runner. Pulido rushed for three touchdowns against Reseda.

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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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