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Boys’ basketball: Santa Monica ends Redondo’s streak

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Santa Monica opened the season ranked in the top 25 by The Times and proceeded to lost three of its first four games.

But the Vikings (8-5) have won four of their last five games following a 71-43 victory over Redondo (10-3) on Wednesday night that snapped the Sea Hawks’ nine-game winning streak. Corey Walker had 23 points for Santa Monica, which also has a recent victory over regionally ranked Thousand Oaks and might be on the verge of cracking The Times’ rankings again.

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The Vikings next play host to Mira Costa on Friday.

--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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