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Boys’ basketball: McKnight sets Southern Section record

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Gary McKnight became the winningest boys’ baskettball coach in Southern Section history tonight after Mater Dei defeated Norwalk, 116-53, to give McKnight his 830th victory.

McKnight moved past former Oxnard Santa Clara Coach Lou Cvijanovich, who finished his career with 829 victories. McKnight is now 14 victories short of passing Mike Phelps, who coached at Alameda St. Joseph and Oakland Bishop O’Dowd, as the winningest coach in California high school history.

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Tyler Lamb scored 24 points on nine-for-17 shooting and Keala King had 21 points and nine rebounds for the Monarchs (2-0) during the victory over Norwalk.

--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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