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Girls’ basketball: Inglewood trails by 14 at halftime

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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SACRAMENTO--St. Mary’s is showing why it has been to seven state championship games, outclassing Inglewood in the first half of the Division III championship game this afternoon at Arco Arena.

The Lady Sentinels, making their first appearance in a title game, kept things close until St. Mary’s closed the half on a 12-2 run to take a 36-22 lead into intermission. Junior guard Afure Jemerigbe was a handful for the Rams, scoring 15 first-half points and prompting students from St. Mary’s to chant, ‘You can’t stop her!’

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Forward Tayler Champion scored seven points and guard Makeda Beadle had six for Inglewood, which committed 19 turnovers to only 10 for St. Mary’s.

--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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