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Girls’ volleyball: Santa Margarita has their number

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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What’s more impressive than beating the top-ranked team in the country?

Doing it twice.

That’s exactly what the Santa Margarita girls’ volleyball team did recently. The Lady Eagles on Saturday defeated La Costa Canyon, ranked No. 1 in the ESPN Rise Fab 50 national poll, two games to one in the championship of the Redondo Power Classic.

Santa Margarita had toppled then-No. 1 Lakewood, two games to none, on Sept. 20 at the Durango Fall Classic in Las Vegas.

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The Lady Eagles also ended Orange Lutheran’s 21-match winning streak on Oct. 14 at a time when the Lancers were the top-ranked team in Orange County and ranked No. 13 nationally.

--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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