FIELD REPORT

By STEVE HENSON

Oct. 21, 2000 12 AM PT

Sylmar High’s Valley Mission League home game against Kennedy on Friday night drew the largest crowd at an area City Section game this season.

The stands were so full 10 minutes before game time that administrators halted ticket sales.

More than 100 people were left standing in line, unable to gain entrance.

“The fire marshals have made it clear that people can’t be standing in the aisles, and they are already doing so,” said one Sylmar administrator.

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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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