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Boys’ basketball: Familiar foes to meet again

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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By the end of the season, there could be about as many games played between Golden Valley and Hart as there are movies in the ‘Friday the 13th’ series. Or at least it might seem that way.

The Foothill League rivals have played each other three times already, with game No. 4 scheduled for Friday at Hart. Golden Valley, ranked No. 23 in the Southland by The Times, holds a two-games-to-one series edge.

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The teams played in a semifinal of the San Fernando Valley Invitational (a 63-50 Hart victory), the championship game of the Hart tournament (a 96-89 Golden Valley triumph) and in the first round of league play (a 63-55 Golden Valley victory).

The teams won’t play a fifth time in the Southern Section playoffs because Hart is in Division III-AA and Golden Valley is in Division III-A, but they could meet in the Southern California regionals.

--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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