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HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Rudy Lugo has another reason to love Canoga Park, as if he needed one.

Lugo has coached at the school since 1969, the last 13 years as the varsity football coach, and his wife and sister graduated from there.

And this season his son, Christopher, is a starting wide receiver. Lugo had a team-high five catches for 62 yards and one touchdown in the Hunters’ 21-15 victory over Birmingham.

“That’s why I get so upset whenever anyone says something negative about Canoga,” Rudy Lugo said. “My whole family, my whole life, is wrapped into this school.”

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Nothing about the Hunter passing attack should be unfamiliar. Senior quarterback Mike Spangle’s junior brother, Brian, is a Canoga Park receiver who had four catches for 85 yards against Birmingham.

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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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