HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Oct. 27, 1999 12 AM PT

Diego Barba, the Monroe quarterback dismissed from the team two weeks ago because he missed a week of practice, is back in uniform by vote of his teammates.

Barba started the last two seasons, lost his job when he transferred to Sylmar after last season, but transferred back during the summer.

Barba, a senior, completed one of two passes for 26 yards last week against Kennedy in relief of junior Steve Beltran.

“We voted him back on the team,” said Tyrone Burwell, Monroe running back. “He belongs with us. It’s cool.”

Barba has completed eight of 14 passes for 188 yards and one touchdown. Beltran is 28 of 82 for 431 yards and five touchdowns.

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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.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

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