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GAME OF THE WEEK : Twin Towers Prove Too Much for Loyola

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Loyola High used to win basketball games with the brother Bailey act. Now the Cubs are getting beaten by brothers.

Wednesday, 6-foot-9 twin brothers Jarron and Jason Collins combined for 35 points to lead Harvard-Westlake to an easy 76-61 victory over Loyola in a Mission League game.

It was Harvard-Westlake’s first victory at Loyola and avenges last season’s two-game sweep when the Cubs were led by Moose Bailey and his older brother, Toby, now a freshman guard at UCLA.

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Harvard-Westlake improved to 4-0 in league; Loyola is 1-2.

With Toby watching from the sidelines and Moose limping with a stress fracture in his left leg, the Cubs struggled to keep pace offensively with the Collins twins.

“This was a game I could not afford to miss,” said Bailey, who further aggravated his injury when he turned his left ankle stepping on another player’s foot.

Jason Collins had 10 of his team’s 16 first-quarter points, working off feeds from brother Jarron, who mostly stood to the side of the free-throw line.

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The Cubs countered with Bailey and Todd Edwards, who combined to score two-thirds of their team’s points in the first half. Bailey finished the game with 18 points, and Edwards had 17.

Loyola trailed, 35-30, by halftime. That deficit grew to seven by the third quarter and 18 midway through the fourth when Edwards and Randle Parker tired trying to stop the Collins brothers, who are sophomores, from scoring inside.

“We do not have enough confidence where he can fall behind by five or six points and still make a comeback,” Loyola Coach Bill Thomason said. “We rely too much on one or two players who can shoot and the rest of the players just stand around.”

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Records: Harvard-Westlake 16-1; Loyola 9-4

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