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Football: State open division bowl game shake-up

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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San Jose Bellarmine Prep, the top-ranked team in Northern California according to Cal-Hi Sports and calpreps.com, lost, 31-23, to San Mateo Serra on Friday.

This likely paves the way for Concord De La Salle to represent the north in the state open division bowl game Dec. 20 at the Home Depot Center in Carson should the Spartans win the rest of their regular-season games and the North Coast Section title.

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Who might represent the south? According to the calpreps ratings, Long Beach Poly and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame are virtually tied for for first place in the region, with Corona Centennial sixth-tenths of one point behind those teams. Crespi and St. Bonaventure are next.

Cal-Hi Sports’ top five teams from the south going into last week: 1. Poly. 2. Centennial. 3. Oceanside. 4. St. Bonaventure. 5. Notre Dame.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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