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Boys’ basketball: Chaminade forces overtime

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Chaminade rallied from a 12-point, fourth-quarter deficit to force overtime in the Division IV-A championship against Price tonight at Ontario Colony High.

Trailing by three points with less than 10 seconds to go, Chaminade guard Jamal McClerkin drove into the lane for a layup and drew a foul. He made the free throw with 2.1 seconds left to tie the score at 67-67 and force the extra period.

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Making the comeback all the more impressive is that the Eagles are playing without their top player, injured forward Jules Montgomery.

-- 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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