Nanni Wins IC4A Mile, Men?s Track Takes 12th Overall

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Nanni Wins IC4A Mile, Men?s Track Takes 12th Overall

3/8/2009 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field

By: Duke Sports Information

BOSTON ? Cory Nanni became Duke track & field's first IC4A champion in a running event since 1999 as the men's team placed 12th of over 100 teams at the IC4A Championships Sunday at Boston University's Track & Tennis Center. The Blue Devils scored a total of 20 points in the two-day meet.

Nanni's mile time of 4:04.72 gave him the IC4A title in the event and was nearly a six-second improvement from his qualifying time in yesterday's preliminaries, also earning him All-East honors. Behind Nanni, teammate Ryan McDermott placed seventh in 4:09.72 as Duke garnered 12 total points in the mile.

The 5K saw Duke come away with two personal-bests, as James Osborne took 10th overall in a lifetime best mark of 14:28.81 ? nearly a six-second improvement for the junior. Freshman Andrew Brodeur also set a PR in the event as he ran 14:35.00 in today's finals-only race.

The men's distance medley relay team of Ken Sullivan, Sam Bowler, Stephen Clark, and Bo Waggoner took seventh place and scored two points as they clocked a total time of 9:59.93. Sullivan led off with a 1200 split of 3:07.2, followed by Bowler's 400 time of 50.2, Clark's 1:53.8 for 800 meters, and Waggoner's 4:08.7 1600 meters.

The 4x800 meter relay team of Sean Pat Oswald, Chris Rowland, Nanni, and McDermott ran to Duke's No. 4 all-time mark of 7:33.32 and a seventh-place showing, which picked up two more points. Oswald started it off with a 1:56.4 split, which Rowland followed up with a lifetime-best 1:50.7. Nanni came back from his mile victory to notch his lifetime best run of 1:51.2, and McDermott completed his fourth race in a 25-hour span by splitting 1:54.9.

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