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Baseball: Crespi holds on for 7-5 victory

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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After giving up a two-out single to David Andriese, Crespi’s Ryon Healy retired Ryan Boeger on a fly ball to right fielder Michael Hubbard to close out the Celts’ 7-5 victory over Redlands East Valley this afternoon in a Southern Section Division II baseball semifinal at L.A. Valley College.

Crespi (20-11) will play the winner of the other semifinal between Huntington Beach and Chino Hills at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Angel Stadium.

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Celts starter John Kearns (4-2) picked up the victory over the Wildcats despite allowing five runs in six innings and committing an error that keyed Redlands East Valley’s three-run second inning.

Josh Mason and Hubbard drove in two runs apiece off Jeremy Perez (9-1) as part of Crespi’s six-run third inning. Healy drove in a run with a first-inning single and picked up the save.

--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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