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Boys’ track: Santee’s Carter ties Thomas for best time in 200

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Tevin Carter has apparently gotten a lot faster since the days of the Snoop Youth Football League.

In an upset, the junior from Santee ran a 21.74 in the 200 meters today at the City Section preliminary track meet, tying favorite DeAnthony Thomas of Crenshaw for the fastest time.

‘He’s improved a lot,’ Thomas said of Carter, who played against Thomas in the league in 2005.

Carter said he held back a bit in the 100 to avoid injury but gave the 200 everything he had because ‘I feel more confident in the 200. That’s one of my favorite races.’

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Also qualifying for next week’s City finals were Birmingham’s Trajuan Briggs in 22.30, Crenshaw’s Gregory Ducre in 22.01, Washington’s Shawn McCoy in 22.19, Taft’s Antuan Goodall in 22.31, Crenshaw’s Jonathan Downard in 22.12 and Dorsey’s Robert Herron in 22.10.

--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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