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Football: Historic victory for L.A. Jordan

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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L.A. Jordan’s 21-12 victory over Fremont on Thursday night in a first-round playoff game was the Bulldogs’ first in the history of the City Section Championship Division, according to Coach Elijah Asante.

Jordan lost to Taft, 36-28, in the first round last year and fell to Venice, 37-34, in the first round in 2005.

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The fifth-seeded Bulldogs play at fourth-seeded Crenshaw in a quarterfinal on Wednesday that figures to be extremely entertaining. Ninth-seeded Birmingham and top-seeded Narbonne will also play in a quarterfinal that figures to be high scoring.

--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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