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Thousand Oaks will play for the Big League World Series title

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Thousand Oaks will play Bravos de Pontezuela of Santiago, Dominican Republic, for the Big League World Series championship at 5 p.m. PST tonight in a game televised by ESPN2.

Thousand Oaks advanced to the championship of Big League Baseball, a division of Little League that features 17- and 18-year-olds, after pitcher Tyler Karp took a shutout into the seventh inning of a 5-2 semifinal victory over Ruston (La.) on Tuesday before leaving the game after reaching the pitch limit.

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Thousand Oaks won the Big League final in 2006 after losing in the championship game in 2003 and 2005.

--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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