There were dozens of former MA high school athletes competing at the BU Valentine Invitational Friday afternoon and evening, and quite a few NNHS alumni. The meetfeatures extraordinarily deep fields in most events.
Kyle Greenidge (Wheaton) tied for 12th in the triple jump with a leap of 44-05.25. He doubled back in the long jump, with a leap of 19-08.75.
In the mile, Noah Jampol ran even splits for a PR 4:25.33. (Although not in the same heat, Brookline alum Matias Carrasco also ran a PR in the mile, finishing in 4:21.60). Jampol runs again on Saturday as he is scheduled to anchor the Johns Hopkins DMR, which is seeking to qualify for the ECAC championships with a time of 10:38 or better.
Early in the afternoon, Doug Brecher raced the 5000, finishing in 16:31.62. I didn't talk to Doug, but am guessing that an early morning bus ride down from Maine, along with a start time an hour earlier than originally scheduled didn't help his race, since he was a half a minute faster last weekend.
In the 3000m, Dan Chebot split 3:00 for the 1K and 6:01 for the 2K, before slowing in the final laps and finishing in 9:11.63.
Still running fast quarter miles, Dave Cahill clocked 51:00 in the 400m. As an indication of how deep the field was, there were 72 other guys UNDER 51:00 last night.
After less than half a lap in the 800m, David Polgar was tripped and fell to the track, failing to finish. He decided that wasn't a fun way to end the night, however, so he managed to enetr a later heat and recorded a time of 1:59.14. Not his best perhaps, but a good effort considering the circumstances. Thomas Foote didn't experience quite so much melodrama, but still recorded a time of 2:01.74. Foote, in his first indoor season at Amherst has regained the form he had in high school and will soon surpass it.
Friday Men's results of BU Valentine Invitational
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Hey Jon,
Just thought you'd like to know that both Dan's DMR team and mine qualified for ECAC's. Our team got a school record with 10:28.8: splits were 3:14.4, 49.7, 2:00.0, 4:24.7. Dan said he split 4:32.4, and we both went out in 31.
Oh, I forgot to say Dan's team ran 10:35.
Thanks for the note, Noah. You had a very impressive weekend -- 4:25 on Friday, and a 4:24.7 1600 split and a share of a JHU school record! Congratulations!
I'm impressed by Dan's split as well. If you were in the same heat, you must have started at almost exactly the same time. As Borat would say, "Very nice!"
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