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Baseball: Two Southern Californians make USA Baseball’s 16-under national team

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Harvard-Westlake infielder-catcher Arden Pabst and Cypress catcher Tyler Alamo were among the 20 players selected to USA Baseball’s 16-under national team after a series of exhibitions in Cary, N.C.

The team will travel to Lagos de Moreno, Mexico, to compete in the IBAF World AA/16U Youth Championships Friday through Aug. 28. First, it will play in exhibition games Monday through Wednesday before taking on Australia in the IBAF Worlds at 5 p.m. PDT on Friday.

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California leads all states with seven players selected, followed by five for Florida and two for Tennessee.

--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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