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Boys’ basketball: Etiwanda clings to halftime lead over Taft

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Neither team has led by more than five points in the first half of a low-scoring thriller between Taft, ranked No. 3 in the Southland by The Times, and No. 10 Etiwanda in the featured game of the Greenway Fairfax State Preview Classic.

Etiwanda leads, 25-24, at intermission behind 10 points from DeRonn Scott. Michael Williams has 10 points for Taft, which has a 13-game winning streak.

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Fairfax defeated Etiwanda by two points late last month in the Modesto Christian Holiday Hoops Classic.

--Ben Bolch

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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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