HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Sept. 17, 1999 12 AM PT

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Birmingham has replaced the six players who transferred to Van Nuys with a fast crowd.

Kevin McCleary, a sophomore running back who scored 25 touchdowns for the frosh-soph team last season, rushed for 105 yards and a touchdown in 17 carries last week.

McCleary is one of three skill-position players who ran on the Birmingham City champion 400-meter frosh-soph relay team last year. The others are junior running back D’Andre Sewell and sophomore receiver Ramal Porter.

John Walker, a City frosh-soph champion in the hurdles, had two catches for 59 yards and a touchdown against Canoga Park.

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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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