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Football: Trailing is a foreign concept to Corona Centennial

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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What would happen if Corona Centennial falls behind in its budding cross-town rivalry against Corona Roosevelt when the teams meet tonight at Roosevelt?

It’s hard to tell given that the prolific Huskies (9-0 overall, 6-0 Big VIII League) have not trailed in any of their nine victories. Centennial set a school scoring record last week with an 82-21 victory over Corona in which the Huskies could have added to their tally had they not missed a pair of extra points.

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Roosevelt (8-1, 5-1), in only its fourth varsity season, has defeated every Big VIII League rival except Centennial.

‘That’s our goal,’ Mustangs Coach Bill Stacy said of beating the Huskies. ‘We know the Big VIII and CIF titles go through Centennial.’

--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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