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Track: It’s all in in girls’ 4x100 relay

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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This is when you know Southern California has some fast runners: when every entrant in an event at the Masters Meet qualifies for the state meet.

That’s exactly what happened in the girls’ 4x100 meter relay, the first running event this evening at Cerritos College. Rancho Verde won going away in 45.81 seconds, but every other relay team--Trabuco Hills, Vista Murrieta, Paraclete, Serra, St. Mary’s Academy, Long Beach Poly, Long Beach Wilson and Rio Mesa--also advanced to next week’s state meet at Clovis Buchanan High because they met the qualifying time.

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Poly was second in 46.03 and Serra was third in 46.13.

--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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