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Boys’ track: Crenshaw pulls away in 4x100 relay

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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It was a good start for DeAnthony Thomas at the City Section preliminary track meet.

Crenshaw’s 4x100 relay team, anchored by Thomas, ran the fourth-fastest time in the state this year, finishing in 41.36 seconds. Thomas still has to run in the 4x400, 100 and 200 meters.

The Cougars’ time was one-one hundredth of a second slower than they ran at the Coliseum League finals. Gardena Serra ran the fastest time in the state this year in 41.15.

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Dorsey was disqualified because of an illegal handoff.

The other qualifiers for next week’s City championship meet were Birmingham (42.29), Taft (42.70), West Adams Prep (43.67), Washington Prep (43.11), Westchester (43.18), El Camino Real (43.39) and Narbonne (43.64).

Birmingham’s girls won the 4x100 relay in 47.67, followed by Washington Prep (48.39) and Carson (48.49).

--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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