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High School Sports

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

By Ben Bolch

SATURDAY’S RESULT

Concord De La Salle 64, No. 3 Compton Dominguez 38

Leading contributors: Junior forward John McArthur scored 12 points and senior guard Jeff Powers had 11 for De La Salle. Junior guard Keala King scored 13 points for Dominguez.

The scoop: Dominguez made only three of 19 three-point attempts and committed 20 turnovers to 14 for De La Salle. “We didn’t execute our offense,” Dons Coach Duane Cooper said. “We didn’t play Dominguez basketball. We settled for too many jumpers.”

Why it matters: Dominguez, ranked No. 12 in the nation by USA Today, failed to secure a confidence-boosting victory over No. 10 De La Salle in advance of the playoffs, where it could meet the likes of Santa Ana Mater Dei, Riverside King . . . and De La Salle, if both teams advance to the state title game. “It’s a little bit of a wake-up call,” Cooper said, “but we have to learn from this and keep going.”

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Records: De La Salle 21-1; Dominguez 20-5

-- Ben Bolch

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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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