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Boys’ basketball: Westchester has big halftime lead

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Top-ranked Westchester simply appears too athletic and overpowering for Western League rival Fairfax, which has fallen behind, 40-24, at halftime tonight.

The Lions are overly relying on three-point baskets--all too few of which are going in--and getting massively out-rebounded by the bigger Comets. Westchester forward Dwayne Polee Jr. had the highlight of the first half when he took an alley-oop pass from Kareem Jamar from halfcourt and dunked.

Jamar has 10 points and Polee eight for Westchester.

Fairfax relied on the shooting of Raymond Barry in the first quarter and Jordan Weathers in the second, but it is in danger of getting blown out. Weathers has 11 points and Barry six.

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The game is not a sellout, a rarity in this series. Perhaps the fans knew what was afoot.

--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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