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Football: Things getting ugly in press box at San Pedro

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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There was a testy exchange between Narbonne assistant coaches and San Pedro fans late in the second quarter after the Gauchos scored to pull within 14-13.

A Narbonne coach told fans sitting below his window in the press box that it was going to be a long night after Gauchos quarterback Troy Williams completed his second touchdown pass. Fans started yelling at the coaches and one splashed water on the press-box window before a coach nearly slammed the window shut on a fan’s arm.

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Los Angeles Unified School Police were called to the press box and escorted the coaches down for halftime. The coaches said they were threatened by fans.

--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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