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Boys’ basketball: Goodbye, Cleveland!

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Who turned out the lights?

After Cleveland scored the opening basket of the second half to pull to within two points of top-seeded Westchester, it was pretty much game over for the Cavaliers.

The Comets rattled off a 19-5 run and lead, 51-38, at the end of the third quarter of today’s City Section Division I semifinal at the Galen Center.

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The winner of this game -- cough, Westchester, cough -- plays the winner of the subsequent semifinal between second-seeded Fairfax and third-seeded Taft.

Cleveland’s Jason Johnson, who scored 13 first-half points, picked up his fourth foul with 4 minutes 32 seconds left in the quarter and went to the bench. He had no points in the quarter.

--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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