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Northridge On Rolle With Signing

By STEVE HENSON
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The Cal State Northridge men’s basketball team continued to bolster its inside strength by signing 6-foot-7 power forward Hewitt Rolle of Lon Morris Junior College in Jacksonville, Texas.

Rolle, a native of Exuma Island in the Bahamas, averaged 10.2 points and 11.5 rebounds last season, leading Lon Morris to a 17-13 record.

“He is a legitimate power forward who is very strong and aggressive around the basket,” Northridge Coach Bobby Braswell said. “He is a great addition.”

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Braswell said Rolle is the last player Northridge will sign.

The signing means power forward Jabari Simmons will not come back for his senior season. Simmons, who averaged 11.6 points and 6.1 rebounds, quit the team late last season, but is attending classes at Northridge.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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