Boys' basketball: Mater Dei makes a run

Boys’ basketball: Mater Dei makes a run

Staff Writer

March 20, 2010 9:20 PM PT

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Mater Dei finished the third quarter with a flourish, cutting what had been a 20-point deficit to a more manageable 51-41 margin heading into the fourth quarter against Westchester in the Southern California Division I regional championship at the Galen Center.

Gary Franklin Jr. finally got a few shots to fall in the quarter after going one for 10 in the first half and Tyler Lamb already has 21 points for Mater Dei.

Dwayne Polee Jr. started to really assert himself with eight points in the third quarter. All the Comets have to do now is not totally collapse.

--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.