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Boys’ basketball: It doesn’t look good for Santa Monica

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Santa Monica Coach James Hect is going to have to come up with a different plan for the second half of the Division 1A championship, because nothing the Vikings did worked in the first 16 minutes.

Santa Monica relied mostly on jumpers in the first quarter and made only two of 16 shots in falling behind by 17 points. The Vikings couldn’t stop Leuzinger on the other end, where the Olympians made eight of 10 shots.

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The second quarter wasn’t any better for Santa Monica. The Vikings went inside a bit more and made a couple of shots but still trail, 31-15, at halftime at the Honda 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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