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Boys’ basketball: Etiwanda holds on, beats Taft

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Jordan Finn scored six of his 11 points in the fourth quarter, including a pair of free throws with 13 seconds left, to help Etiwanda, ranked No. 10 in the Southland by The Times, hold off No. 3 Taft, 50-44, in the featured game of the Greenway Fairfax State Preview Classic.

DeRonn Scott scored 16 points for Etiwanda (18-4), which snapped Taft’s 13-game winning streak. Michael Williams had 19 points for the Toreadors (18-3), who trimmed a nine-point deficit to two on Pierson Williams’ three-pointer with 15 seconds left before Finn’s free throws put the game away.

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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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