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The
800m, steeplechase, and 5,000m rounds, which were
scheduled for day one of the NCAA...
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...Outdoor
Track & Field Championships, were washed out by
thunderstorms. After shuttling all of the athletes
over to the...
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...football
stadium to see if they could wait out the storms,
NCAA officials eventually came up with a revised meet
schedule.
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Rice
senior Daniel Pessing gets ready for the first 800m
heat. The revised schedule cut the 800 from three
rounds to two.
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Above:
Mike Inge of Kent State. Two rounds instead of three
meant that advancing would be much tougher. The top
two runners...
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...in
each of the three heats, plus the runners with the
next three fastest times would advance. Above: Minnesota's
Trent Riter.
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UC-Santa
Barbara junior Ben Armel gets ready for the first
800m heat.
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L-R:
Michigan's Andrew Ellerton, Georgetown's Jesse O'Connell,
and Florida's Moise Joseph.
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Minnesota's
Trent Riter at the start of the first 800m heat.
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Mike
Inge, who was in the midst of a great year, led on
the first lap, with Jesse O'Connell in second place.
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Ellerton
leads Daniel Pessing on the first lap.
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Riter
was having a breakthrough year, but he just missed
advancing here, finishing fourth in 1:48.20.
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UCSB's
Ben Armel finished ninth in 1:52.88 and did not advance
to the final.
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Jesse
O'Connell won the first heat in 1:46.78 and advanced
automatically.
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Andrew
Ellerton finished second (1:47.10) and advanced automatically.
Moise Joseph (3rd, 1:48.03) advanced on time.
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With
a strong first round, O'Connell set himself up as
one of the favorites for Saturday's final.
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Wisconsin
junior Dan Murray finished seventh in 1:49.92 and
did not advance.
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Tennessee
junior Marc Sylvester gets ready for the second 800m
prelim.
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Nebraska
freshman Mmitrijs Milkevics and Penn sophomore Courtney
Jaworski await the start.
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Texas
Tech junior Jonathan Johnson and Oral Roberts freshman
Prince Mumba.
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