McEntee Second at Big East Mile

Well, the "glass half full" version of this Big East mile championship race is that Sam McEntee improved his 2011 Big East mile finish from 6th (4:10.61) last year to a close second (4:05.92) this year. The "glass half empty" part of the story, however, is that McEntee learned the same lesson absorbed last year by Matt Gibney: it's not very easy to run down Notre Dame's Jeremy Rae. Rae, the defending conference champion indoors, was shadowed by McEntee throughout the race, but McEntee could not get past Rae on the final lap. As in last year's race, when Rae beat Gibney by .36 seconds, Rae created separation from McEntee and had just enough turnover to keep the Villanova sophomore at bay. This time McEntee made a serious move off the final turn, but Rae -- an NCAA 1500 meter finalist outdoors in 2011 -- subtly moved out to lane 2 to thwart the effort, beating McEntee by .44 seconds. Villanova travels to Notre Dame in two weekends, providing McEntee a chance at revenge.

Joe LoRusso was 7th, Alex Tully 11th, and Danny Harris 12th, as Villanova qualified four men for the mile final.

Event 14  Men 1 Mile Run
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 NOTE 1-8 ON STARTING LINE 9-12 ON UPPER ALLEY
        MEET: M 4:00.12  2/22/2008   Kurt Benninger, Notre Dame                
  IC4A Qual.: I 4:14.90                                                        
   NCAA Auto: A 3:57.90                                                        
    ARMORY C: C 3:54.54  2012        Miles Batty, BYU                          
    Name                    Year School                  Finals  Points
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Finals
  1  1059 Jeremy Rae          JR NOTRE DAME             4:05.48I  10   
  2  1281 Sam McEntee         SO VILLANOVA              4:05.92I   8   
  3   830 Joe Clark           JR CONNECTICUT            4:08.32I   6   
  4  1048 J.P. Malette        JR NOTRE DAME             4:10.55I   5   
  5   978 Jack Hackett        SR MARQUETTE              4:11.30I   4   
  6   900 Ben Furcht          SO GEORGETOWN             4:11.35I   3   
  7  1278 Joseph LoRusso      JR VILLANOVA              4:11.74I   2   
  8   923 Dylan Sorensen      SO GEORGETOWN             4:12.04I   1   
  9  1249 Joseph Whelan       FR SYRACUSE               4:12.20I 
 10  1120 Corey Brunelle      SR PROVIDENCE             4:13.28I 
 11  1299 Alex Tully          SO VILLANOVA              4:13.77I 
 12  1271 Danny Harris        FR VILLANOVA              4:14.47I