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Pacific Life Pac-10 tournament: Arizona prevails with 78-69 victory over Oregon State

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Oregon State forward Joe Burton knocked Arizona’s Kevin Parrom to the floor while delivering a knockout blow to the Beavers’ chances.

[For the record, 4:50 p.m.: An earlier version of this post said Oregon State forward Roberto Nelson knocked Arizona’s Kevin Parrom to the floor.]

The Beavers were still within striking distance midway through the second half of their Pacific Life Pac-10 tournament quarterfinal Thursday afternoon at Staples Center when Burton elbowed Parrom, sending the Wildcats forward reeling.

Nelson was ejected and Arizona scored the next eight points on the way to a 78-69 victory that propelled the top-seeded Wildcats into a game against fourth-seeded USC at 6 p.m. Friday.

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Arizona forward Derrick Williams scored 22 points on eight-for-12 shooting and guard Lamont Jones added 13 points.

Oregon State guard Jared Cunningham scored 23 points, fading a bit over the final 20 minutes after tallying 19 points in the first half.

We’ll have more later at www.latimes.com/sports.

-- 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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