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Softball: Marshall’s Megan Reiner leads Los Angeles to RBI World Series title

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Pitcher Megan Reiner, who recently completed her senior season at Los Angeles Marshall, pitched a complete-game three-hitter to lead Los Angeles to the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities World Series title on Sunday in Minneapolis with a 3-0 victory over Santo Domingo.

Reiner struck out nine and went one for three with a run scored on the way to being selected the game’s most valuable player. She helped Los Angeles finish the tournament undefeated and become the first team to repeat as champions since Atlanta won titles from 2001-07.

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Former Crenshaw shortstop Loren Williams had two of Los Angeles’ three hits and stole two bases.

The championship game will air on MLB Network and mlb.com at noon Aug. 21.

The baseball portion of the RBI World Series begins Wednesday, with the junior and senior championship games being played Aug. 14 at Target Field in Minneapolis.

--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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