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Football: It’s not Crean Lutheran South’s year

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Poor Crean Lutheran South.

The Saints lost to small-school power St. Margaret’s, 56-0, on Saturday. But the final score doesn’t reflect just how lopsided the game was. The Tartans scored on their first five offensive plays and ran a total of seven plays in the first half, with six going for touchdowns.

St. Margaret’s top two running backs had nine carries--and six touchdowns.

Playing in its first varsity season, Crean Lutheran South has been outscored, 299-0, in its six losses.

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But better times surely are ahead. Just ask Hollywood Bernstein Coach Darrell Divinity, whose team logged its first victory Friday after 15 consecutive defeats to start its varsity program. The Dragons had been outscored, 522-0, in 2008 during their first varsity season.

‘It’s going to get better,’ Divinity said of the struggles Crean Lutheran South is enduring.

--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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