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Boys’ basketball: Bishop Montgomery pulling away

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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SACRAMENTO--The third quarter of today’s state Division IV championship game belonged to Bishop Montgomery, which transformed a two-point halftime deficit into a 10-point lead when Michael Panaggio fed Richard Solomon for a dunk that gave the Knights a 54-44 lead over Salesian heading into the fourth quarter.

This has been a game of wild momentum swings, with Salesian going on an 18-2 run in the first half and Bishop Montgomery countering with a 17-0 run to close the second quarter and open the third.

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Salesian’s Desmond Simmons, who had a double-double at halftime with 15 points and 12 rebounds, had only three points in the third quarter.

--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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