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Arkansas
junior James Hatch gets ready for the third 800m prelim.
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UCLA's
Nick Thornton at the start.
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Tennessee
freshman Paul Cross.
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Cross
leads on the first lap with Auburn's Sherridan Kirk
close behind.
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R-L:
Cross, Kirk, Jason Briggs, Hatch, Jean Balan, Lukas
Musil, Tetlo Emmen, and Kevin Hicks.
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Kentucky's
Balan leads SMU's Musil and UCSB's Emmen.
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Hicks
(right) moved up to finish third in 1:48.43, and Emmen
finished fourth in 1:48.75.
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Paul
Cross (Tennessee) and James Hatch (Arkansas) went
1-2.
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Cross'
winning time (1:47.99) was the slowest of the day
but he advanced easily.
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Hatch
finished second in 1:48.16 and also advanced.
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Because
the third heat was slower, no one advanced on time.
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Notre
Dame's Kurt Benninger and Radford's Goran Nava led
on the first lap in the first 1,500m prelim.
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The
top four runners in each of the two heats, as well
as the runners with the next four fastest times, would
advance...
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...to
Saturday's final.
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Benninger
continues to lead on the second lap. He went through
400m in 62.2 and 800m in 2:07.7.
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R-L:
Benninger, Nava, Stanford's Don Sage, Minnesota's
Martin Robeck, and Ohio State's Rob Myers.
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Also
in there are Georgia Tech's Brendon Mahoney (#899)
and Stanford's Grant Robison (#1142).
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BYU
junior Bryan Lindsay with just under two laps to go.
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Montana's
Scott McGowan (left) ran just under 59 seconds for
the third lap and passed through...
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...1,200m
in 3:06.3. (Above: 1,100 meters in, with one lap to
go.)
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