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La Habra ends La Habra Sonora’s winning streak at 18 games

By Ben Bolch
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WEDNESDAY’S RESULT

La Habra 58, No. 12 La Habra Sonora 44

Leading contributors: Senior guard Randall Nygren scored 19 points and senior guard Jordan Sachs had 16 for host La Habra. Senior guard Christopher Bearden scored 16 points and senior forward Nathan Kuester had 13 points and 11 rebounds for Sonora.

The scoop: Sonora made only five of 26 three-point shots and eight of 26 shots from inside the arc. “We just couldn’t make a shot,” Coach Mike Murphy said. “We took way too many threes, and a lot of that was because their zone was pretty good.”

Why it matters: La Habra ended its cross-town rival’s 18-game winning streak and avenged a 14-point loss in Freeway League play from last month. Sonora was playing without star forward Marcus Farrand, who will miss at least the next two weeks because of a knee injury. “We just got beat,” Murphy said. “I would never blame it on not having Marcus. We had plenty of guys there. We just couldn’t get it done.”

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Records: Sonora 21-2, 6-1; La Habra 17-7, 5-2

-- Ben Bolch

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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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