HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Nov. 24, 2000 12 AM PT

Buena has four seniors who started as sophomores. That means they remember Arroyo Grande knocking them out of the Division IV quarterfinals in 1998.

The score: 49-21.

The rematch: tonight at Arroyo Grande.

“That game sticks in my mind because [Arroyo Grande] ran so well against us,” said Brandon Faumuina, a three-year starter at defensive end. “But we are older and wiser.”

And Arroyo Grande might not be as strong. In 1998, it went on to win the division title. The Eagles are 6-4 and barely held off Thousand Oaks, 38-36, in the first round.

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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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