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Football: Rialto gets new marching orders

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Rialto might want to hold a midweek scrimmage against an intramural football team from UC Irvine before opening Citrus Belt League play Oct. 3 at home against Miller. The Anteaters could help rid Rialto’s football and baseball fields of an infestation of fire ants that earlier this week prompted the cancellation of a freshman football game and the relocation of practices, according to Associated Press.

‘They’re from South America,’ Syeda Jafri, spokeswoman for the Rialto Unified School District, told AP. ‘How they got here, we have no idea.’

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Exterminators are expected to rid the field of the venomous pests by Friday, meaning next week’s game should proceed as scheduled.

--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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