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Boys’ basketball: King leads Mater Dei by 1 after first quarter

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Neither team looked particularly sharp in the early going of the Division I-AA championship this evening at the Honda Center, with King clinging to a 13-12 lead over Mater Dei after the first quarter.

Mater Dei forward David Wear had a pair of dunks and finished the quarter with six points. King forward Tony Snell had five points, including a three-point basket.

The Wolves are having star forward Kawhi Leonard guard Mater Dei’s Connor Hughes instead of one of the Wear twins, presumably to keep him out of foul trouble. Leonard opened the game with a three-pointer but hasn’t done much since. He took an off-balance three-pointer that missed badly toward the end of the quarter.

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--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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