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Football: Beck is Eastern League player of year

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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What a year for Los Angeles Jordan’s De’ Shawn Beck. The running back-quarterback-receiver led the City Section in rushing yards and appears to have his chioce of colleges, with USC and Washington in the mix.

Now the senior has been selected the Eastern League player of the year after a regular season in which he rushed for 1,876 yards, passed for 1,025 yards and had 171 yards receiving.

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Beck will lead the sixth-seeded Bulldogs (6-4) against 11th-seeded Narbonne (5-5) at 2 p.m. Thursday in a first-round playoff game at Jordan.

Here is a highlight video of Beck from earlier in the season.

--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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