Friday, March 2, 2012

Villanova Men Miss DMR Auto Qualifier by .52 Seconds
Still a Chance for NCAA Berth with 4th at Notre Dame



The Villanova men's DMR ran 9:31.52, a half second short of the 9:31.00 NCAA automatic qualifier, in heat #2 of the Alex Wilson Invitational at Notre Dame. The quartet finished fourth in their heat, and fourth overall over two heats. Notre Dame and Wisconsin punched their tickets to the NCAA nationals, running 9:29.72 and 9:30.86 respectively, and brought the number of automatic qualifiers nationally to 6 teams (with BYU, Indiana, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma). Arkansas finished third overall tonight at Notre Dame, in 9:31.48. Villanova was next, coming home in 9:31.52. The men split this way:

Brian Tetreault (1200 meters): 2:57
Bryan Murphy (400 meters): 47.9
Sam Ellison (800 meters): 1:48.7
Sam McEntee (1600 meters): 3:57


Tonight's 9:31.52 places Villanova at #9 in the NCAA this season. Normally, 10 or 11 teams are selected to participate at the NCAA indoor championships; therefore, despite missing the automatic qualifier, Villanova may indeed get an invite. If so, lots of the credit should go to Sam McEntee who came from way back in the anchor tonight to finish fourth in the heat. He split 3:57.

Here are the top teams on the NCAA DMR performance list, pending other action in the country tonight:

NCAA DMR Performance List
1. BYU 9:29.00 AQ
2. Indiana 9:29.12 AQ
3. Texas A&M 9:29.71 AQ
4. Notre Dame 9:29.72 AQ
5. Oklahoma 9:30.13 AQ
6. Wisconsin 9:30.86 AQ
7. Stanford 9:31.24
8. Arkansas 9:31.48
9. Villanova 9:31.52
10. Washington 9:31.68
11. Ohio State 9:31.71
12. Oregon 9:31.91


Here are the complete results from both DMR heats at tonight's Alex Wilson Invitational:

Finals                                                          
1 Notre Dame 'A' 9:29.72
1) Shawel, Johnathan 2) Giesting, Christopher
3) Babb, Randall 4) Rae, Jeremy
2 Wisconsin 'A' 9:30.86
1) Mudd, Austin 2) Thompson, Aaron
3) Mellon, Zach 4) Hatz, Alexander
3 Arkansas 'A' 9:31.48
1) Lieghio, Anthony 2) Southard, Travis
3) Momoh, Leoman 4) Rono, Patrick
4 Villanova 'A' 9:31.52
1) Tetreault, Brian 2) Murphy, Bryan
3) Ellison, Samuel 4) McEntee, Sam
5 Washington 'A' 9:31.68
1) Soberanis, Ryan 2) McNeal, Maurice
3) Whitley, Bradley 4) Bywater, Joey
6 Ohio State 'A' 9:31.71
1) Fallon, Chris 2) Smith, Korbin
3) White, Dan 4) Leslie, Cory
7 Oregon 'A' 9:31.91
1) Shrader, Brian 2) Berry, Mike
3) Guyota, Boru 4) Dunbar, Trevor
8 Princeton 'A' 9:31.95
1) Van Ackeren, Trevor 2) Hopkins, Tom
3) Williams, Michael 4) Callahan, Peter
9 Minnesota 'A' 9:33.02
1) Burkstrand, Travis 2) Holton, John
3) Abda, Harun 4) Hutton, Nick
10 Virginia 'A' 9:34.78
1) Gilland, Taylor 2) Anding, Kevin
3) Roller, Lance 4) Kostelac, Anthony
11 Air Force 'A' 9:35.28
1) Zubey, Alex 2) Delgado, Anthony
3) Lindsay, Alex 4) Walmsley, Jim
12 North Carolina 'A' 9:40.21
1) Driggs, Jack 2) Parros, Clayton
3) Wanliss, O'Neal 4) Presson, Isaac
13 Kansas 'A' 9:41.02
1) Wasinger, Don 2) Munsch, Josh
3) Fink, Dalen 4) Clemons, Kyle
14 Albany 'A' 9:46.36
1) Burke, Christopher 2) Santana, Jonathan
3) Rowell, Peter 4) Lagno, Paul
-- Penn State 'A' DNF
1) Endress, Wade 2) Nadolsky, Aaron
3) Loxsom, Casimir 4) Creese, Robby
-- New Mexico 'A' DNF
1) Evans, Sam 2) York, Richard
3) Aragon, Gabe 4) Millington, Ross
-- Georgetown 'A' DNF
1) Peavey, Bobby 2) Akers, Hansel
3) Ulm, Toby 4) Springer, Andrew
-- Texas 'A' DNF
1) Jessett, CJ 2) Dreyer, Dereck
3) Thompson, Kyle 4) McGregor, Patrick

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