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Baseball: All-Western League team selected

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Palisades’ Jon Moscot and Westchester’s Chris Jacobs were selected co-most valuable players of the Western League.

First-team selections were Palisades pitcher Julian Anchez, infielder David Skolnick and outfielder Brett Whalen; Westchester pitcher Jamaal Moore, infielder Derrick Guidry, utilityman Robert Gsellman and outfielders Alex Aleman and Dominique Starks; University pitcher Jose Medina, infielder Justin Moore and outfielder Stephon Brown; LACES infielder Josh McKie; Fairfax infielder Tony Gaparetti and catcher Vince Gamez; and Venice catcher Daniel Hordo.

Second-team selections were Fairfax pitcher Anthony Giannelli, infielder Robert Perez and outfielder Robert Eusey; Hamilton pitcher Steven Gallardo; Palisades pitcher Buck Traweek, infielder Ryan Kim, catcher Damon Ray, utilityman Nick Poulos and outfielders Ryan Holman and Josh Korn; University infielder Michael Chun; Westchester infielder Zachary Nordberg and catcher Greg West and Venice infielder Sam Ramos and outfielder Anthony Smith.

Ryan Taylor of LACES was selected the freshman of the year.

--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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