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Baseball: Sementelli among four locals on national team

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Birmingham reliever Marti Sementelli, the top pitcher of the 2008 International Baseball Federation World Cup in Japan, was among four local players selected for the final 20-player Women’s National Team roster.

The others were first baseman-outfielder Sarah Gascon of Rancho Palos Verdes, outfielder Nicki Holt of Camarillo and San Marcos High reliever-infielder Ghazaleh Sailors of Santa Barbara.

The roster can be found here and the team will represent the U.S. in the 2010 World Cup, which runs from Thursday-Aug. 22 in Venezuela.

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Here is a video of the trials held earlier this week in Cary, N.C.

--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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