Tustin’s Webb pulls off upset in 200 meters

No matter what happens in Clovis, Ameer Webb will always have Cerritos.

The Tustin High senior sprinter pulled the upset of the Southern Section Masters Meet on Friday night at Cerritos College, edging Los Angeles Cathedral’s Randall Carroll in the boys’ 200 meters.

“I’ve always got that on my record,” said Webb, who finished in 21.59 seconds. “I beat Randall Carroll.”

Webb made a strong final push, saying he figured he had a chance to win when he saw Carroll “cruising” toward the finish.

Carroll came in second in 21.62 seconds and shrugged off the result, pinning his slower-than-expected time on cool, windy conditions. Carroll won the 100 in 10.50, considerably slower than the 10.30 he ran at the Del Rey League finals earlier this month.

“It wasn’t good weather for sprinting,” said Carroll, who remains the favorite in both events at next week’s state meet at Clovis Buchanan High. “Next week will be a different race.”

Riverside La Sierra senior Reggie Wyatt won the 400 in 46.54 and the 300 hurdles in 36.88, well off the 35.74 mark he set earlier this year that stands as the fastest in the nation.

Wyatt also had qualified to run in the 200 but pulled out of the race because it came only one event after the 300 hurdles.

“I didn’t have enough time in between, so I didn’t want to push it too hard,” Wyatt said. “It was too close.”

Claremont junior Kori Carter, who has the fastest times in the nation this year in the girls’ 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles, won the former event in 13.80 but was on the verge of being upset in the latter when Gardena Serra’s Turquoise Thompson tripped on the second-to-last hurdle and fell to the track, triggering a gasp from the crowd. Carter pulled away to win in 41.92 and Thompson finished last.

Thompson won the girls’ 400 in 53.45.

Wyatt said he put his bid for a national high school record in the 300 hurdles -- Woodland Hills Taft’s Jeshua Anderson set the mark with a 35.28 in 2007 -- on hold until the state meet because of the less-than-ideal conditions Friday.

Does Wyatt think he has a realistic shot?

“With the crowd and everything and the right day, I think it could happen,” he said. “It’s what I have my mind set on.”

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