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Football: L.A. Jordan game moved to 2 p.m.

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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L.A. Jordan’s first-round City Section home playoff game against defending co-champion Narbonne has been moved to 2 p.m., 15 minutes earlier than originally scheduled, Bulldogs Coach Elijah Asante said.

That’s probably a good idea since there are no lights at Jordan and it’s almost completely dark by 5 p.m.

‘This is going to be very exciting for the Watts community,’ Asante said of the matchup against the Gauchos. ‘This community really gets behind the football team and identifies with it.’

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A victory would be Jordan’s first at home in the upper-division playoffs. Although Jordan is seeded No. 6 and Narbonne No. 11, Calpreps.com is projecting a 35-17 victory for the Gauchos.

--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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