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Thousand Oaks Plays in Little League Regional

By STEVE HENSON
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Thousand Oaks Little League begins play in the senior division (14-15-year-olds) western regional on Monday in Missoula, Mont. The winner of the four-team regional advances to the World Series in Kissimmee, Fla.

Thousand Oaks, composed primarily of players who won the 13-year-old World Series two years ago, defeated Long Beach twice last week in an area tournament to advance to the regional.

Long Beach included several players who won the Little League World Series in 1992 and 1993.

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Thousand Oaks, 12-0 in tournament play, edged Long Beach, 6-5, Thursday in the area final. Sean Burroughs came to bat with a runner on second and one out in the seventh, but Thousand Oaks relief pitcher Kevin Howard picked off the runner and retired Burroughs on a grounder to second baseman Matt Rogers.

On Tuesday, Rogers allowed no runs in 4 2/3 innings of relief to enable Thousand Oaks to notch a 14-11 victory over Long Beach.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a breaking news and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an 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 2023 and in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club. He has been honored several times by APSE — most recently in 2023 and 2021 — and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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