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Chris
Mulvaney, Don Sage, Brendon Mahoney and David Kimani
get set to kick.
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Don
Sage wins the second heat of the mile in 4:01.80,
Christian Goy is second in 4:02.09, Kimani, Atwater,
Mahoney, Tolman and Mulvaney also advance.
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Chris
Emme of Stanford, Chris Powers of Indiana and Louis
Luchini of Stanford at the start of the 5,000m final.
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Alistair
Cragg of Arkansas takes the pace early on. He's joined
by Ryan Shay of Notre Dame, Tom McArdle of Dartmouth,
and everyone else in the field close behind.
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Shay
took on the pacesetting duties early on, the first
two kilometers passed in 2:48 each, according to the
announcer.
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When
the pace picked up, the pack was whittled down to
Cragg, Jorge Torres (#57), Shay, Jason Sandfort, Shay
and Tom McArdle.
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Daniel
Lincoln and Alistair Cragg of Arkansas follow Shay.
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Chris
Powers finished 12th in 14:18.05.
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Tom
McArdle of Dartmouth ran just behind the leaders for
much of the race.
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#55
Dathan Ritzenhein, CU's star freshman, makes an appearance
up front.
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In
the middle and late stages of the race, there seemed
to be a new leader each lap.
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Eventually
it came down to the two Arkansas runners, Lincoln
and Cragg, vs. the two CU runners, Torres and Ritzenhein.
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The
home crowd was unbelievably enthusiastic when the
two Arkansas runners took the lead.
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Cragg
made a break and Torres and Ritzenhein charged furiously
on the last lap but were unable to make up the gap.
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Cragg
won in 13:49.80. Torres was second in 13:50.35, Ritzenhein
third in 13:50.51 and Lincoln fourth in 13:57.71.
Arkansas freshman Jason Sandfort held on for fifth
(14:00.65).
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Cragg
takes his victory lap.
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In
the DMR Martin Allegyer of SMU, Nathan Sisco of Wake
Forest, Isaiah Festa of Wisconsin and Toby Henkels
of Minnesota run the leadoff leg (1,200m) for their
teams.
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L-R
on the 1,200m leg, Texas' Jordan McCambridge, Nathan
Sisco, Northern Iowa's Oliver Bodor and Toby Henkels.
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By
the 800m leg, Villanova's Jason Jabaut already had
a lead, which he continued to build on.
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On
the 1,600m leg it's Grant Robison for Stanford, Chris
Duncan for Florida and Josh Spiker for Wisconsin.
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But out in the lead, it's Villanova's Adrian Blincoe,
who got the baton with a decent lead and just had
to hold on to it.
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Josh Spiker leads the chase pack.
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David Kimani, who's tripling (mile, DMR and 3,000)
here, runs in second for Alabama.
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At some point the chase pack seemed to be gaining,
but Blincoe picked up the pace and was never in serious
danger of being caught.
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Josh Spiker outkicked David Kimani for second, 9:32.31
to 9:32.97.
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Blincoe crosses the finish line for the victorious
Villanova team, their time was 9:31.00.
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