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Girls’ basketball: Harvard-Westlake wins state title

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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BAKERSFIELD--There was little suspense in the final 2 1/2 quarters after Harvard-Westlake took a double-digit lead and ran away from Albany St. Mary’s for a 58-44 victory in the state Division IV championship Friday evening at Rabobank Arena.

A pair of senior forwards did the heavy lifting in carrying the Wolverines to their first state title. Sydney Haydel scored 20 points and Nicole Hung had 16 for Harvard-Westlake, which used three separate 9-0 runs to take control.

Senior guard Nicole Nesbit also had 15 points for the Wolverines, who shot 42.5% to St. Mary’s 29.2%.

Harvard-Westlake’s Tiana Woolridge even got in the game briefly on the same day her brother, former Wolverines standout Renaldo Woolridge, was playing for Tennessee in a NCAA tournament Sweet 16 game against Ohio State.

--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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