Dana Hills Forfeits

By Ben Bolch

April 9, 2002 12 AM PT

Dana Hills High’s baseball team forfeited the championship of the West Coast Classic after Coach Zeke Barragan determined that his top pitcher, Tony Davidson, had violated the California Interscholastic Federation’s pitching-limit rule during the tournament.

Davidson pitched four innings of relief in the Dolphins’ 7-6 championship-game victory over San Francisco Archbishop Mitty on Thursday, giving him 11 innings for the tournament, one more than the CIF allows per week.

Archbishop Mitty was awarded a 7-0 forfeit victory.

With the forfeit, Dana Hills, No. 13 in The Times’ rankings, drops to 12-4.

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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.

Dana Hills Forfeits

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