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Football: Boron deciding whether to play on

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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The Boron football team is meeting at 3:30 p.m. today to decide whether to play Friday’s game at Lake Isabella Kern Valley in the wake of the death of sophomore running back and safety Vinnie Rodriguez.

Rodriguez died Tuesday night from head injuries sustained last Friday during the Bobcats’ game against Riverside California School for the Deaf. Players initially voted to play the game against Kern Valley after Rodriguez was injured but are now reassessing the situation.

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Memorial services are pending, but a spaghetti dinner fund-raiser in the school cafeteria from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday will proceed as scheduled.

--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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