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Basketball: Pacific League sweeps Rio Hondo League in all-star games

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Despite a game-high 26 points by Blair’s Deon Geary, the Pacific League all-stars defeated their Rio League counterparts, 108-103, Saturday in the first Rio/Pac all-star game.

Pasadena’s Joe Henson scored 17 points and teammate Travis Flye had 12 for the Pacific League.

In the girls’ game, Anna Shahinian and Lidia Rivas of Glendale scored 20 points apiece to lead the Pacific League to a 78-59 victory over the Rio Hondo League. South Pasadena’s Nicol Biesek had 26 points for the Rio Hondo League.

--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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