HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By MIKE BRESNAHAN

Feb. 2, 2001 12 AM PT

Get the St. Bonaventure players together for a game, and the result is predictable more often than not.

The Seraphs have lost five times, but only once with a full squad. Injuries and the football team’s advance deep into the playoffs hurt the Seraphs (15-5, 5-0) starting the season, but they have been tough lately.

Wade DeSmidt, a 6-foot-10 center, is averaging 5.3 blocked shots and Chris Saunders is averaging 18.3 points. The Seraphs are in first place in the Tri-Valley League.

Sophomore Whitney Lewis is averaging 16.5 points since returning from the football team.

“He gives us a new dimension,” Coach Gil Kim said. “You throw Whitney into the mix and we can go inside, outside, penetrate, do anything.”

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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