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Football: La Habra pulls away from Tustin

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Tustin, which had been averaging 42 points in the playoffs, finally met a defense up to the challenge Saturday in its Southwest Division championship game against La Habra.

The Highlanders shut out the Tillers in the second half of a 26-14 victory in which Ronnie Hillman scored on two long touchdown runs to break a 14-14 deadlock.

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Hillman scored on a 54-yard run with 1 minute 56 seconds left in the third quarter and on a 43-yard run with 5:22 left in the game for La Habra (11-2). Hillman finished with 96 yards in five carries.

Anthony Wilkerson rushed for 204 yards and a touchdown in 37 carries for Tustin (9-4).

--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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