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Boys’ basketball: Taft leaves Fairfax punch-less

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Fairfax’s supposedly potent one-two punch of Renardo Sidney and Solomon Hill?

There was next to nothing doing for the USC-bound duo this afternoon during the second-seeded Lions’ 67-45 loss to third-seeded Taft in a City Section Division I semifinal at the Galen Center.

Sidney scored 10 points in the first quarter -- and finished with 13. Hill finished with only seven points.

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Taft focused its defense on the pair and let the other Lions do pretty much what they wanted, which wasn’t much. Sidney was so tired by the end of the game that he wasn’t getting much lift on his jumper and was walking back up the court on defense.

Michael Williams scored 23 points and Nevada Las Vegas-bound guard Justin Hawkins had 20 for the Toreadors, who pulled away early in the fourth quarter. Taft advanced to play top-seeded Westchester in the City final Friday night at the Galen Center.

--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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