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Baseball: Kerry Kelley’s one-hit shutout leads Venice to victory in RBI championship game

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Kerry Kelley pitched a one-hit shutout to lead the Venice Boys & Girls Club to a 8-0 victory over Harrisburg (Pa.) on Sunday at Target Field in Minneapolis in the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities senior division championship.

Kelley was selected the most valuable player of the event for the second time in three years, having also led Venice to the title in 2009. He did not give up any hits after the first inning and allowed only three baserunners for the game.

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Alex Newman hit a two-run homer for Venice, which finished the competition with a 4-1-1 record.

--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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