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those wonderful miles at NIC!

by John Dye

Saturday - Sunday - 
Complete Results

SUNDAY

Boys 2-Mile:  
Dathan Ritzenhein 8th best all time!
Rockford MI jr improved his US#1 time to 8:52.94.  Ritzenhein was pressed early, but was all alone for the last few laps.  

Boys Mile:
Alan Webb home alone!
It was billed by meet director Jim Spier as the greatest HS boys mile field in 15 years, but Alan Webb turned it into a time trial.  There was a "pack" for only 100 meters before Webb moved out on top and sprinted the first quarter in 64.  If he weren't so talented, it would have looked like a rabbit trying to steal the race.  But Webb is no rabbit - he is a triple crown thoroughbred.  Webb got to the half in 2:05.9 and then ran faster.   Stretching his lead steadily to the end, Webb finished in 4:07.88.  He was clocked in 3:07.1 for three quarters and 3:52 for 1500 meters.

Mason Ward caught Millrose Games champ Tristan Colangelo for second by a split second in 4:13.20, and Noel Paulson was fourth in 4:18.21.  Colangelo led Gloucester MA to a new boys DMR record Friday night in New York at NSI and then flew to Indiana for this duel with Webb.  

Girls Mile:  
Alejandra Barrientos, San Lorenzo Valley CA jr, took over the national lead with a blistering stretch kick over Alicia Craig in 4:48.96.  Barrientos went out on top and led a pack of 6 girls through a quarter in 70.2 and half in 2:26.3.  Simplot Games champion Craig moved smartly to the lead with a split of 3:41 at the three quarter mark.  Then Barrientos took the lead back in less than a lap and accelerated to the finish to win going away.  Ale was timed in 4:31.8 for 1500 meters.  Craig was second in 4:48.96, followed by Hillary Edmondson 4:53.87, Katie Lyman 4:56.85, and Renee Gunning 4:57.69.

Boys PV: Sage Thames 16-0.75 emerged on top of a pack of eight boys alive at 16 feet.

Girls 60:  Erica Whipple 7.38 US#2
Boys 60: Brandon Kincy 6.78 (tie US#2), Duan  Barrino 6.83 US#4.

Girls 400: US#1 Lashinda Demus improved to 53.85, Christy Fairley 54.86 US#2.  
Boys 400: US #1 Anthony Ewers 48.10, Ricky Harris 48.38 US#3, Aaron Luster 48.83 US#5.

Girls 60H: Nichole Denby 8.42 new US#1, Latasha Pharr 8.51 new US#2.
Boys 60H: US#1 Ricky Harris tied the US all-time record of 7.62 in the semis, and then won the finals in 7.81 in a photo finish over Deandre Eiland.

Girls 200: Erica Whipple doubles with a terrific 23.99 time, No. 1 in the US this season.
Boys 200: Christopher Martin 21.91 over Aaron Luster 22.06.

Girls 800: Neisha Bernard 2:11.28, US#2, with Nikeya Green close up at 2:12.06, US#3.
Boys 800: James Doaty, 1999 national outdoor champion, outfought Canadian Erik Sproll in the stretch to win a great race in 1:53.57.  Doaty led sharply through 400 meters in 54+.  Sproll took the lead on lap 3 and seemed in command until Doaty fought back on the backstretch of the last lap.  Doaty took over turning for home and crossed the finish with his index finger raised high.  

Girls 2-Mile: Carol Henry, Sarnia Ontario, was a runaway winner in 10:23.63, with IN jr Michelle dela Vina second in 10:34.98.  Another Canadian, Nikki Reckman, was 3rd 10:37.45 and UT so Laura Zeigle fourth 10:38.85.  Zeigle ran in the morning "slow" section so she could make an airplane connection. 

Girls 4x200: 
Boys 4x200:  W. Potomac VA held off Houston Westbury in 1:31.26 in a thrilling anchor duel.  

Girls 4x800: Rockford MI gets their third big relay win in 9:12.39, US#2 to NSI champion Boys & Girls NY's new US record 9:07.57.
Boys 4x800: JFK Bellmore NY 7:57.28 US#8.

Girls 4x400: Long Beach CA Wilson 3:50.25 US#3.  
Boys 4x400: Stephenson GA 3:22.12 US#9 over Houston Westbury 3:23.85. 

Boys Triple Jump:  E. Roosevelt MD sr Allen Simms raised his US#1 mark to 50-10.

SATURDAY

Rockford MI girls shatter the national 4xMile record by 18 seconds in 20:23.24. Bingham UT 20:31.27 and Colonie NY 20:34.22 also beat old record, set in 1982 by N. Quincy MA.  Girls 4xMile results and photos.  A couple of hours later, Rockford came back and won the DMR impressively in 12:02.81.

Boys 4xMile -- Just like last June at Raleigh in the Foot Locker National Scholastic Outdoor, Rockford MI completed a boy-girl double by winning in 17:46.98.

Boys DMR:  Jefferson twins lead Delray Beach 10:15.89 by 16 seconds over JFK Bellmore NY.

Girls 400 Qual: 1999 US athlete of year Lashinda Demus 55.23 leads qualifiers for Sunday's final, with Christy Fairley 55.28 and Alyssa Aiken 55.58.

Boys 400, top 2 qual: Rickey Harris, Centreville, VA 48.91 q 
2 477 Ewers, Anthony 00 Inwood, NY 49.07

Girls 200 Qual: Erica Whipple, W Palm Beach, FL 24.79, leads 6 girls to the finals; Tracee Thomas, Riverside, CA 24.97.  

Boys 200 Qual: Ben Kittleson, Lagrange, KY 22.07, is fastest qualifer.

Boys Pentathlon: Darion Powell, Bellevue WA, 3720.

Girls Pentathlon:  Lauren Reimer, New Braunfels TX, 3589

Weight Throwers do a cross country double, competing in both meets.

Girls: Kate Johnston, Warwick RI, threw 55-9.75 in Bloomington Saturday and flew to New York to improve to 58-4.75.

Boys: US#1 Josh McCaughey . Kingston, RI,  threw 79'03.25" in Bloomington Saturday and dropped to 78-8.25 in NewYork.

by Don Rich

Friday - Saturday - Sunday Complete Results

SUNDAY

Leevan Sands sets new TJ record 52-8.  Melbourne FL sr also doubles in long jump 24-3.75.

Sanya Richards gets sensational double: Florida's Sanya Richards, only a sophomore, won both the 60 meter dash and the 200 meters, setting a new national record in the 200 23.64 (Zundra Feagin, of Cocoa, FL 23.67, in 1991). The mark obviously also broke the sophomore US record (23.73) of Angela Williams, set in 1996.  In the 60, Richards nipped Maryland's Teyarnte Carter by .05, 7:43 to 7:48. The time is a new US #2. Budding star, eighth grader Natasha Hastings, of the X TC of NYC, was fifth. Her qualifying time yesterday of 24.54, was only .14 off Marion Jones high school Freshman record.

Girls Mile:  
Shalane Flanagan new US#1 in second to Emily Kroshus of Calgary.  Kroshus 4:46.79 caught Millrose Games champ Flanagan 4:46.91 in the final five meters.  Then came Sara Bei 4:54.61, Danielle Jelley 4:58.37, Pilar Marin 5:01.25, and Marian Bihrle 5:05.68.

Marblehead MA sr Flanagan, who leaves for the world cross country championships Tuesday as part of the US team, set a PR by 6 seconds. She said she came in not expecting to win because she's really in cross country shape. "But the pacing was perfect. I wanted to set it up with a fast 800 (going through in 2.22) so no one could sneak up. I didn't even hear her coming. She's so nice, so I don't mind losing to her. We're both going to world's, so I'll see her there."

Emily Kroshus doubled in the 2-Mile in 10:09.36, a 23-second margin over Sara Bei.

Girls 4x800: new US record 9:07.57 for Boys and Girls NY: running a team with a member from each class, Sheena Garwood sr, Tameka Johnson jr, Stacey Livingston so, Akilah Vargas fr.. The only team able to go with them after the second leg was Pennsylvania's William Penn High School.  The old record was  held by Manchester Central NH (9:07.85), set at this meet in 1999. The Irish Road Track Club from Chester County PA, finished third in 9:16.93.

Burtonville Maryland's Dwight Thomas, won the 60 dash in 6.73, and 60 high hurdles. His 6.73 in the dash is a new US #1, and his 7.92 in the HH is a new US #2.

Girls 60m Hurdles: Priscilla Lopes, CAN Whiby, Ontario 8.29; Sheena Johnson, Stafford, VA 8.42 (New US#2)

Boys 4x400: Ballou DC 3:28.34
Girls 4x400: Willia:m Penn PA 3:50.82 US#3

Boys 200: With US leader Glenn McFadden, Hillhouse, CT, out of the finals because of his miscalculation in the semis, Carlos Bedoya, White Plains, NY

Boys 800:  Paul Joyce beats Damion Drummond - Joyce, West Nyack, NY, punished the field in the final 200, pulling away in the final 25 meters to a new US #2 1:52.23, 1.1 seconds ahead of Drummond.  Next were James Small 1:53.47, Jesse O'Connell 1:54.91, Chris Pruitt, Flemington, NJ 1:54.96, Jeffrey Fisher 1:54.99.
Girls 800: Philadelphia's Evelyn Dwyer, won a close 800 over Elizabeth Bayne   Dwyer's 2:11.43, and Bayne's 2:11.55 were new US # 2 and 3, respectively. Kelley Otstott, Fairfax Station, VA, is a new US #4 with her 2:11.64. The race was dominated by four sophomores in the top six, including twins Megan and Shannon Radermacher, who both broke 2:14.

Boys PV: JB Rosson, Keezeltown, VA 15 01.00

Boys 2-Mile: Brian Boyett, Parsippany, NJ 9:17.35

SATURDAY 

Girls 4x200 Qual: Berkeley CA survives fall - Favorite and US #1, Berkeley, CA, qualified, but only after a few harrowing seconds. As their anchor approached the finish on the way to what appeared to be an all-time US time, she fell five meters from the line, got to her feet, and crossed the line in the day's fourth fastest time, still winning their heat. US#3 William Penn, PA, was disqualified. US# 4 A. Philip Randolph, NYC, finished 9th with a
1:43.10. US#9 Simon Gratz, Philadelphia, PA, failed to qualify after finishing 7th with a 1:42.61, missing a spot in the finals by .06.

Boys 4x200 qual: US# 2 (1:28.71), Roman Catholic had a runner pull up on the far straight, ending their chance to qualify for the finals. Poly Prep, NY had the day's fastest time, a 1:29.41.

Girls 400 qual: Angel Perkins, Cerritos CA so, ran the third fastest time of the indoor season with a 54.74, running in the same heat with third place qualifier, Tiffany Mari Abney (55.37) of the United Stars of Philadelphia. Natasha Staten, William Penn, ran 55:07 for the second best qualifying time.

Boys 200 meter Qual: US#1 Glenn McFadden misses the finals by 0.02 when he eases up in last 10 meters.  All six finalists were under 22 seconds, led by Carlos Bedoya 21.65.

Girls 200 Qual:  sophomore Sanya Richards of St. Thomas, Pembroke Pines, Florida, had the day's fastest qualifying time in 24.24.  PA West Catholic's Tiffany Bradley, and US #3, did not qualify for the final, finishing in a tie for tenth with 25.10, over .4 off her season best. Eighth grader Natasha Hastings, (US top 10 in the 200) and US #2 in the 400, ran the day's fourth fastest time, in 24.54.

Girls 60 meter prelim: Pricilla Lopes, Ontario, 7.55, leads semifinalists; Amandi Rhett, Moorestown NJ 7.58.

Boys 60m hurdle prelim: Jacob Garlick, W. Jordan UT, and Herb Reid, Mount Holly, NJ, lead semifinalists at 8.05.

Girls 60m hurdle prelim: Shenae Dawkins,  New Rochelle, NY  8.50 is fastest semifinalist.

60M: Dwight Thomas 6.85 is fastest qualifier

Boys 60 meter trials: Dwight Thomas, Burtonville, MD 6:85 Sheldon Simpson, East Hartford, CT 6:93 Anthony Buchanan, Spokane, WA 6.94 John Williams, Stone Mountain, GA 6:96 Sean Lambert, Brookly, NY 6.99.

Boys Shot Put: Glenn Digiorgio, Bayonne NJ so, whose brother  Kevin was a two-time US champion, won with a throw of 61-4.

FRIDAY

Complete Friday results

Gloucester MA 9:59.94 DMR (new US record)
Krystle Moss 5-8.5  
Leevan Sands 24-3.75
Karen Freeburg 46-10.25 Manchester Cent NH 12:06.99 Ivan Schmidt 6-11.5
Simon Gratz boys 3:28.74 SMR
Caroline Harvey 19-2.5
William Penn girls 4:04.37 SMR

Boys DMR: Gloucester  MA (below) broke the national record of W. Springfield VA, set at NSI March 15, 1998, by 11 seconds. 

Boys HJ: Ivan Schmidt, 11, Brandywine, DE wins with PR of 6-11.50

Girls DMR: Manchester Central, NH, wins girls DMR in 12:06.99