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Boys’ basketball: Etiwanda storms back to take halftime lead

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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There were long stretches of the first half when it looked like Etiwanda didn’t belong on the same floor as Mater Dei, but the Eagles came back to finish the first half on an 11-2 run to take a 31-29 lead into intermission in the Division 1AA championship.

Etiwanda took its first lead of the game late in the first half on a breakaway layup by Aaron Crockett, only to have Mater Dei’s Keala King tie the score on a short turnaround jumper.

But the Eagles responded on a layup by Tyler LaCour to take the lead going into halftime. Mater Dei had led by as many as eight points in the first half.

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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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