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Football: World breaks Palmer’s record at Santa Margarita

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Santa Margarita senior quarterback Ryan World became the fastest player in school history to reach 1,000 passing yards in a season, doing it in only four games after amassing 303 yards last week during the Eagles’ 18-14 victory over La Costa Canyon. World broke the record previously held by Carson Palmer, who needed five games to reach the threshold in 1997.

World can now set his sights on Sean O’Brien, who passed for 2,000 yards in 10 games in 1992.

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Santa Margarita (2-2) plays host to Temecula Chaparral (2-1), ranked No. 23 in the Southland by The Times, on Friday at Saddleback College. Pumas beware: The Eagles are 11-1 all-time against teams from Riverside County and have not lost to a team from that area since falling, 26-25, to Palm Desert in the 1991 Division V playoffs.

--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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