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Track and field: Newport Harbor’s Ethan Cochran wins boys’ discus

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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We have our first champion at the state track and field meet at Clovis Buchanan High, and it’s Newport High junior Ethan Cochran in the boys’ discus.

Cochran won with a throw of 185 feet 9 inches, edging Loyola’s Nick Budincich, who had a throw of 178-05. San Gorgonio’s Ryan Hunter-Simms was third in 176-06.

All three throws were shorter than the respective competitors had posted in the preliminaries, possibly because of the heavier, denser air associated with the wet weather.

By the way, it has stopped raining.

--Ben Bolch in Clovis

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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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