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UCLA basketball team drops a close game during Australian tour

Isaac Hamilton had 18 points for UCLA on Saturday in Australia.
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By Ben Bolch
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UCLA’s second stop on its Australian basketball tour wasn’t as successful as the first.

Melbourne United edged the Bruins, 89-84, in an exhibition game played early Saturday morning Los Angeles time in Melbourne.

Isaac Hamilton and Bryce Alford each scored 18 points for UCLA, which couldn’t replicate its 47-point blowout of a team featuring college players earlier in the week. Melbourne United competes in the professional National Basketball League.

Bruins freshman Lonzo Ball snagged a team-leading 13 rebounds to go with his eight points.

UCLA will play the Brisbane Bullets, another professional team, on Monday before returning to Los Angeles.

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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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