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Track and field: Harvard-Westlake’s Cami Chapus wins heat in girls’ 1,600

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Cami Chapus, a junior from Havard-Westlake, won her preliminary heat in the girls’ 1,600 Friday at the state track meet at Clovis Buchanan High, finishing in 4 minutes 53.69 seconds, to advance to Saturday’s championship race.

Nikki Hiltz, a sophomore from Aptos, posted the fastest time of the day, winning her heat in 4:48.20. Other runners advancing to the championship race from Southern California were Chadwick’s Jaye Buchbinder (4:52.69), Redondo’s Lyndsey Mull (4:53.08), Vista Murrieta’s Erika Reddish (4:53.30), St. Margaret’s Sarah Paddon (4:54.53) and Saugus’ Stephanie Bulder (4:54.94).

--Ben Bolch in Clovis

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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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