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Boys’ basketball: Maier gets 600th victory

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Redondo Coach Tom Maier recorded his 600th career victory Tuesday night during the Sea Hawks’ 55-52 Bay League victory over West Torrance.

The triumph was also significant because Redondo (10-10, 4-1) moved into a three-way tie for first place in the league standings alongside West Torrance and Leuzinger. The Sea Hawks also snapped West Torrance’s 13-game winning streak.

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‘Six hundred wins? It’s a nice mark, but I’ll tell you that I’ve lost almost half as many,’ Maier told the South Bay’s Daily Breeze with a smirk. ‘What’s important is the way the team played and how we fought back.

‘A month ago, we would have probably lost a game like this. So they showed me something.’

Maier has spent the last eight years at Redondo after coaching his first 27 seasons at Chadwick.

-- 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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