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AREA HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK / Baseball

By STEVE HENSON

Like the rest of the Highland team, Ryan Torres wants catcher Daniel Champieux to recover as soon as possible from a strained left knee that has kept him sidelined for a week.

But Torres has to appreciate the opportunity Champieux’s injury provided. A senior whom Coach Mike Van Cheri called “Mr. Utility” earlier this season, Torres was six for six in two starts last week.

Third baseman John Santor moved to catcher and Torres played third base. Torres is nine for 13 this season.

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“He’s doing a great job,” Van Cheri said. “I’ll find him playing time somehow when Daniel is healthy.”

Champieux will be out at least one more week.

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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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