SOUTHERN SECTION FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

By BEN BOLCH

Dec. 10, 2000 12 AM PT

St. Bonaventure 34, Orange Lutheran 16--Lorenzo Booker rushed for 363 yards and five touchdowns at Ventura High as the top-seeded Seraphs (14-0) won their second consecutive Division XI title and 28th consecutive game.

Lutheran quarterback Jason Taylor’s two-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter pulled the Lancers to within 21-16, but Booker scored on runs of three and 26 yards to put the game out of reach.

Third-seeded Lutheran (11-3), which had six passes intercepted, lost its third title game in eight years under Coach Jim Kunau.

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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.

SOUTHERN SECTION FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

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