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Boys’ basketball: Eisenhower leads Loyola at half

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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You get the feeling that if these teams played each other 10 times, each would win five games.

That’s how evenly matched Loyola and Eisenhower appear today in the Southern California Division II regional championship at Pauley Pavilion. The second-seeded Eagles are leading the Cubs, 34-33, at halftime.

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Senior guard Andrew Bock has eight points and senior forward Nazareth Richardson five for the Eagles, who are winning despite shooting only 32.4% to Loyola’s 53.3%. The Cubs have hurt themselves by committing 13 turnovers.

Senior forward Carl Hoffman, a lumbering big man with unorthodox form, has 16 points on eight-for-nine shooting and eight rebounds for Loyola.

This is a rematch of the Southern Section Division II-A championship won by Eisenhower, 79-73, last Saturday. The Eagles trailed by two points with 1 minute 38 seconds remaining before senior guard Nicholas Carter made a pair of three-pointers.

--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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