Boys' basketball: Westchester pulls away for victory

Boys’ basketball: Westchester pulls away for victory

Staff Writer

Feb. 28, 2009 1:43 PM PT

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It was interesting. For a half.

Westchester’s superior combination of size and athleticism then allowed the top-seeded Comets to dominate fourth-seeded Cleveland during the second half of a 71-56 victory in a City Section Division I semifinal at the Galen Center.

Westchester, which had led by only four points at halftime, will play the winner of the upcoming semifinal between second-seeded Fairfax and third-seeded Taft at 8 p.m. next Friday at the Galen Center.

Dwayne Polee Jr. and Jordin Mayes scored 16 points apiece and Dominique O’Connor had 13 for Westchester. Polee also had 10 rebounds.

Jason Johnson scored 13 of his 15 points in the first half for Cleveland. He was saddled with foul trouble for much of the final 16 minutes.

--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.