Bruins hold off Cal to win their fifth in a row

Adem Bona scored 13 points and Dylan Andrews and Lazar Stefanovic each scored 12 and UCLA won its fifth straight holding off Cal for a 61-60 win on Saturday.

Jaylon Tyson scored 16 points, Jalen Celestine 13 and Fardaws Aimaq scored 12 and grabbed 12 rebounds for Cal before fouling out.

Sebastian Mack made 1 of 2 foul shots for the Bruins with four seconds left for a 61-57 advantage. Celestine made a 3-pointer with .1 seconds left that made it a one-point game but the Bruins' inbounded the ball to end it.

Both teams struggled to shoot as they each missed eight foul shots.

Aimaq's put back off a Tyson miss gave Cal its last lead at 57-56 with 36

BERKELEY >> THE SCORE UCLA 61, CAL 60

Up next: Colorado at UCLA, Thursday, 6 p.m., ESPN

SUMMARY

UCLA (13-11)

Bona 3-8 7-11 13, Andrews 4-15 4-4 12, Mack 3-10 1-5 8, Stefanovic 4-9 2-2 12, B.Williams 3-7 0-0 7, McClendon 0-2 0-0 0, Mara 3-6 0-0 6, Buyuktuncel 1-1 0-0 3, Vide 0-0 0-0 0, Nwuba 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-58 14-22 61.

CAL (10-14)

Aimaq 4-12 3-4 12, Celestine 4-10 1-3 13, Cone 1-6 0-0 3, Kennedy 3-8 3-3 9, Tyson 6-12 3-4 16, Newell 1-3 0-4 2, Larson

2-2 0-0 5, Brown 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-53 10-18 60.

Halftime:

UCLA 35-24;

UCLA 5-17 (Stefanovic 2-4, Buyuktuncel 1-1, B.Williams 1-1, Mack 1-5, McClendon 0-2, Andrews 0-4), California 8-26 (Celestine 4-9, Larson 1-1, Aimaq 1-2, Tyson 1-3, Cone 1-5, Newell 0-1, Kennedy 0-5);

Aimaq; UCLA 34 (Stefanovic 13), California 34 (Aimaq 12);

UCLA 7 (Andrews 2), California 8 (Tyson 3); UCLA 14, California 18; 9,280 (11,877).

Fouled Out:

Assists:

A:

Rebounds:

Total Fouls:

3-Point Goals:

seconds remaining. Andrews' jumper 12 seconds later gave UCLA the lead for good.

UCLA led 35-24 at halftime and it maintained the double-digit lead for the first six minutes of the second half before Cal got back into contention.

The Golden Bears outscored UCLA 12-6 and got within 47-41 on a layup from Tyson with 10:08 left. Berke Buyuktuncel made a 3 for UCLA for a nine-point lead before Cal scored eight straight reducing its deficit to 5049 following a 3 from Celestine with 5:55 left. The score stayed that way until Tyson's basket with 3:05 left gave Cal its first lead since four minutes into the game.

With the win, the Bruins (13-11, 8-5 Pac-12) moved into a third-place tie with Oregon. UCLA hosts Colorado on Thursday.

Cal (10-14, 6-7) travels to Pullman, Washington, to take on Washington State on Thursday.