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Track and field: Long Beach Poly’s Melia Cox advances in girls’ 100 hurdles and triple jump

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Long Beach Poly’s Melia Cox, who earlier this year ran the 100-meter hurdles in a nation-leading 13.34 seconds, won her preliminary heat in the event Friday at the state track meet at Clovis Buchanan High, finishing in 13.42.

Also advancing to Saturday’s championship race from Southern California were Ayala’s Brea Buchanan (13.78) and Rancho Cucamonga’s Jordie Munford (13.92).

Cox also advanced to Saturday’s championship in the girls’ triple jump with a leap of 40 feet 11.25 inches that was the third best of the day. Union City Logan’s Ciarra Brewer had the longest leap of 43-02.50.

Also advancing to Saturday’s championship in the triple jump from Southern California were San Luis Obispo’s Abrianna Torres (39-06.50), Valencia’s Faith Anumba (39-00.75) and Long Beach Poly’s Adrianna May (38-09.25).

--Ben Bolch in Clovis

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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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