Track: Carroll is a blur in 100-meter dash

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May 29, 2009 7:17 PM PT

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It wasn’t his fastest time of the year, but race favorite Randall Carroll of L.A. Cathedral won as expected in the boys’ 100 meters, finishing in 10.50 seconds. His fastest time is 10.30.

Fountain Valley’s Kyle Middlebrooks was second in 10.68 and Bishop Amat’s Sheldon Price--Carroll’s future football teammate at UCLA--finished third in 10.73.

In the girls’ 100, Rio Mesa sophomore Valexsia Droughn won in 11.61 seconds, followed by Rancho Verde’s Asiah Gooden in 11.77 and Paraclete’s Melanise Chapman in 11.79.

--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.