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Boys’ track: Wyatt sets national record in 300 hurdles

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Riverside La Sierra’s Reggie Wyatt held both arms aloft after setting a national record tonight in the boys’ 300 hurdles, finishing his heat in 35.02 seconds. It broke the record of 35.28 set by Woodland Hills Taft’s Jeshua Anderson in 2007.

Wyatt said he didn’t need to see the official results to know he had broken the record.

‘With the crowd cheering and everything, I knew I had it,’ said Wyatt, who soaked in the applause during a victory lap.

Wyatt said there was no pressure to break his record in Saturday’s championship.

‘Tomorrow I’m just going to have fun,’ he said. ‘I wouldn’t care if I got last.’

--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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