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Portland
senior Steve Schaefer.
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Oklahoma
State freshman Brian Ehlis.
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Florida
State senior Jim Van Veen.
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Van
Veen originally hails from Satellite Beach, Florida.
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Between
7k and 8k, Ryan Hall (left) and Dathan Ritzenhein
pull away from the rest of the field.
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Louis
Luchini leads Gavin Thompson.
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L-R:
Westly Keating, Alistair Cragg and Ian Dobson.
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Iona's
Richard Kiplagat leads Wisconsin's Simon Bairu.
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Just
past the five-mile mark, Hall and Ritzenhein continued
to lead the field.
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Though
their lead was small, it was a significant one and
the race was finally on.
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At
this point, Stanford had five runners in the top 11.
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After
finishing fourth as a freshman, Ritzenhein had missed
this meet...
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...a
year ago with an injury. Though he hadn't gotten in
as much quality...
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...training
as he would have liked, he had proved his fitness
in the...
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...three
races he had run this season. Hall, a junior, had
finished 37th in this meet...
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...a
year ago, but had been one of his teams leaders all
season.
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Gavin
Thompson (left) and Grant Robison run in third and
fourth.
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Louis
Luchini of Stanford runs in fifth place.
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Ian
Dobson, Westly Keating and Alistair Cragg run 6-7-8.
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Richard
Kiplagat, Simon Bairu and Adam Tenforde run 9-10-11.
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