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High School Sports

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

It doesn’t seem possible.

Matthew Hicks of North Hollywood rushed for 203 yards in 30 carries against Harvard-Westlake, yet his team was shut out, 27-0.

However, a closer look at the statistics tells the tale.

The rest of the Huskies compiled minus-14 yards rushing in 18 carries and were held to two yards passing.

Hicks was one of three City Section backs to rush for more than 200 yards last week--and the only one not named David.

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David Valencia of Poly had 215 yards in 26 carries in a 19-0 victory over L.A. Wilson, and Sylmar’s David Contreras had 302 yards in a 28-21 victory over Antelope Valley.

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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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