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Girls’ basketball: Brea Olinda outlasts Mater Dei

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Best in the nation?

For the Mater Dei boys’ and girls’ basketball teams, the cold reality is this: They’re not even the best in Southern California.

Four days after Fairfax toppled the Mater Dei boys’ team in a Southern California Division I regional quarterfinal, Brea Olinda knocked off the previously unbeaten Mater Dei girls’ team, 44-38, this afternoon at Pauley Pavilion in the Southern California Division II regional championship.

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Senior guard Jonae Ervin scored 18 points and junior guard Kelsey Harris had 12 for the second-seeded Wildcats (32-2). Sophomore guard Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis had 10 points on four-for-16 shooting for top-seeded Mater Dei (32-1), which committed 29 turnovers and made only two of 13 three-pointers.

--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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