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Boys’ basketball: Leuzinger holds on for title

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Santa Monica’s 10-0 fourth-quarter run might have mattered had the Vikings not turned the ball over 17 times and shot 29.4% through the first three quarters.

But Leuzinger led by 24 points by the time Santa Monica made its only real push of the game, and the Olympians held on for a 58-39 victory in the Division 1A championship this afternoon at the Honda Center.

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Leuzinger junior forward Amir Garrett punctuated his 14-point performance by taking an alley-oop pass from Colroy Gordon and dunking in the final minutes. Guard Delon Wright added 13 points for the Olympians.

--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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