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Georgetown's
Ali Najjar leads BYU's Chad Simkins on the first lap.
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Najjar
and Simkins led with one lap to go.
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Jonathan
Johnson (between Najjar and Simkins) ran an impressive
last lap to win the second prelim.
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Marc
Sylvester and Paul Ciurlys trailed the field with
a lap to go.
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Johnson
won the second prelim. in 1:48.10.
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Jesse
O'Connell (2nd, 1:48.58) and Ali Najjar (3rd, 1:48.80)
both advanced automatically.
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Paul
Ciurlys (4th, 1:49.37) and Chad Simkins (1:49.49)
advanced on time. All of the time qualifiers came
out of the first two heats.
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The
most surprising casualty was Tennessee's Marc Sylvester
who finished 7th in 1:50.60 and did not advance.
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Sylvester
was sick coming in to the meet but didn't expect it
to affect him as much as it did.
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Peter
Etoot of Alabama gets ready for the third of four
800m prelims.
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Wisconsin
sophomore Dan Murray.
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Minnesota
freshman Trent Ritter.
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Kentucky's
Jean Balan (left) and Chad Johnson.
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Ritter
at the start.
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Murray
starts in lane two.
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R-L
on the first lap: Johnson, Etoot, Balan and Murray.
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Etoot,
who had the third-fastest time coming in, was running
well with one lap to go...
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...but
fell past 600 meters, did not finish and did not advance.
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Also
in there are Minnesota's Ritter and Nebraska's Chris
Burns.
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Down
the homestretch, Wisconsin's Murray and Kentucky's
Balan lead.
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