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U.S.
National Champion and Olympian Gabe Jennings focuses before
the mile.
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Christian
Goy of Illinois State.
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L-R:
Goy, Ryan Travis of Arkansas, Jennings, and Colorado State's
Bryan Berryhill.
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Texas
Christian's Eliud Njubi finished 8th in 4:00.53.
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Berryhill's
gutsy race strategy became immediately apparent - go to the
front and run away from the field.
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Berryhill
had the added advantage (over Gruber and Jennings) of not
having run the DMR (in addition to the mile prelims.) the
night before.
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Jennings,
the previous night's hero who carried Stanford to a win in
the DMR, ran a good race but not a great one as he finished
3rd in 3:58.54.
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Charlie
Gruber, midway back in the pack.
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Goy
and Gruber run shoulder-to-shoulder.
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Berryhill
was just the class of the field, leading from start to finish
and winning in an impressive 3:56.84.
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Gruber
came up for a strong second-place finish in 3:58.51.
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Rice's Adam Davis and SMU's Roman Oravec do a little gentle
shoving as the gun goes off in the men's 800 final.
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Otukile
Lekote used the same strategy as he did in the prelims. --
going out fast.
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Arizona's
Patrick Nduwimana and Ryan Davis followed (also pictured is
Arkansas' Dirk Heinze on the inside).
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Moise
Joseph, a Florida freshman (5th, 1:47.72).
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With
one lap to go, Lekote (3rd, 1:46.13) leads Nduwimana (1st,
1:45.33) and Heinze (2nd, 1:45.95). (Sorry, we didn't get
any photos of the finish because a race official walked into
our line of view.)
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Jason
Van Swol of Illinois finishes 8th in 1:54.89.
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