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Football: Powell, Woods in running for big award

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Rancho Verde linebacker Ronald Powell and Gardena Serra receiver-defensive back Robert Woods are among 30 players who have been named to the watch list for 2010 U.S. Army Player of the Year Award, considered among the highest honors in high school football.

The award is given to the most outstanding senior participating in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl on Jan. 9 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. The six finalists will be announced in December.

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Past recipients include St. Bonaventure’s Lorenzo Booker and Oaks Christian’s Jimmy Clausen.

Powell will be honored on the Rancho Verde campus Sept. 29 during a ‘selection tour’ event in advance of the All-American Bowl.

--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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