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DyeStat 2001 Outdoor
Mobile Meet of Champions
The Story in Pictures
Boys Track
100 - 200 - 400 - 800 - 1600 - 3200 - 110H - 300H
Award stand after the closest finish of the day: 3-1-2
are fr Michael Grant GA 10.86, fr Jerald Watson LA 10.52, and sr
Ben Kittelson KY 10.53
Finish was too close to call without the photo timer
between Watson (red, left) and Kittleson (blue)
Kittleson 21.32 wins the rematch over Watson 21.84 . . .
and gets handshake.
At the starting line
| Jonathan Fortenberry Marietta GA  |
Ashton Collins J. S. Clark LA  |
Collins out of the blocks |
Finish: Fortenberry 47.19 (right) edges Collins 47.54
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Top seeded Catholic Pensacola FL sr Daniel Soule
(left) ponders the race and Marietta GA sr Jonathan Fortenberry looks
to add another gold medal.  |
Big pack after one lap
Soule made a killer move with 200 meters to go, and Fortenberry
followed.
Soule wins in 1:52.04 (Fortenberry 1:54.00)
Soule gets congrats from Florida Peninsula buddies
Start
End Lap 1 - Joe Thorne, Lakeside GA, took command immediately.
Halfway
Thorne wins in 4:15.12
top seed Scott Fuqua, Oak Mountain AL jr, warms up
awaiting the start: (from right) Fuqua, Pat Gavin LA, Rolf
Steier FL, and Sean Stevens TN.
the start - under the lights
Lap 1, Fuqua and Gavin lead the pack
Gavin led after 3 laps.
Finding the pace too slow to his liking, Fuqua took back the
lead through 1600 meters in 4:34.
End of 6 laps - Fuqua is smoothly pulling away from the
field.
Fuqua finished in full command in 9:03.67. The next three
runners also broke the meet record - Stevens 9:10.09, Jake
Raines MS 9:10.48, and Rolf Steier FL 9:15.07.
Fuqua and coach have revised their goals. As a freshman,
Fuqua projected to 9:20 as a junior. Now they are expecting sub-9:00
any day soon. Fuqua said he had something left and felt he could
have broken 9:00 tonight except for the slow second 800
meters.
Winner Bershawn Jackson FL 14.04 -1.0 (left) gets
handshake from 2nd Joshua Walker GA 14.11 as 3rd Dexter Faulk GA
14.16 looks on.
Georgia hurdlers Walker and Faulk strain for the finish,
but Jackson (out of picture in lane 1 beat them both
winner Bershawn Jackson FL has the look of the
hunter after he captures his second gold medal of the day
Jackson peeks at the clock at the finish - it said
36.33, fastest in the US this year
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