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02.07 | 01.07 02.18.07: ELLINGTON LEADS TENNESSEANS AT AUSTIN MARATHON. Knoxville's Stewart Ellington was the first Tennessean home at the AT&T Austin Marathon. Despite a nightmare journey to Texas involving a canceled flight and lost luggage, the 32-year-old former UT runner ran impressively over a course that was far more challenging than most runners had expected. Ellington rattled off 5:30 miles like clockwork through first, net uphill, half of the race, but was unable to move up the gears in the later stages of the race like he had planned. But, in a race of attrition that saw over one third of the elite runners drop out, Ellington finished 9th overall in a PR of 2:23:55, some eight minutes better than his debut over the distance last fall. "It was a tough course, a Boston-type course," he told TR. "I thought I would be able to picking up the pace coming downhill and maybe get the [Olympic Trials qualifying] mark, but I got stuck in '5:30 land'. But I'm pleased. I finished strong and never really hit the wall." Ellington will take another attempt at getting under 2:22 and qualifying for the trials in a late spring marathon, with the Country Music Marathon a possibility. Ellington's Runner's Market teammate, Bobby Holcombe, ran well too. He finished 15th overall in a PR time of 2:37:55. Lisa Kirkham, 40, of Nashville was the first female Tennessean to finish. She clocked 3:34:27. The race was won by Chapel Hill,NC-based Kenyan, Jynocel Bhaswati in 2:14:02, with the first female home being 24-year-old Moges Zebenaye of Ethiopia in a time of 2:39:46. [results] 02.18.07: MEMPHIS SCHOOL TEACHER WINS PENSACOLA MARATHON. Kiersten Schnacke, 33, a vice principal at a Memphis city school, was the first female overall at the Pensacola Marathon in Florida. Schnacke,33, finished in 3:18:59. Schnacke's parents, Ned and Martha, who moved to Pensacola only three days before Hurricane Ivan struck in October 2004, ran in the accompanying half-marathon. "They love Pensacola,'' Kiersten said. "I heard about this race (through them), heard it was really a good race. It was wonderful.'' [results | more, Pensacola News-Journal] 02.17.07: HINE AND JORGENSEN LEAD TENNESSEANS AT UK INDOOR INVITATIONAL. Some of the state's best high school distance runners were in action today at the University of Kentucky High School Indoor Invitational in Lexington,KY. Taking full advantage of the gentle turns and longer straightaways of the 290-meter track in Nutter fieldhouse, Memphis duo, Virginia Hine and Rita Jorgensen outstanding days. In the girls' 1 mile race, Hine, a junior at White Station led the early laps, but was soon joined up front by her teammate Jorgensen, and Stephanie Morgan, a promising 10th grader from Ohio. The three came off the final turn altogether, but it was Morgan who had the bigger kick, clocking 4:57.18 to edge Hine by 0.14 seconds, with Jorgensen just another 0.22 seconds back. Hine then Getting an extra half-hour to recover, Jorgensen (right) returned for the 2 miles. Jorgensen led the field through 1 mile in 5:22 with Kentucky's Mary Grace Pellegrini in tow, and also Morristown West senior, Haley Moody, who was having the race of her life. With two laps temaining, Pellegrini was fading and it was Moody who took control of the race. Jorgensen, though, tucked in behind and when she unleashed her kick with a half-lap remaining, her miling speed was telling. Jorgensen clocked 10:51.55, a new meet record and PR, and in second place, Moody annihilated her PR with a 10:55.63 clocking that took 42 seconds off her previous best. "I'm very pleased," Jorgensen told TR. "I was shooting for 10:50 to 10:55 in the 2-mile, and I hit the goal. We've only done two weeks' worth of speedwork. So, hopefully, there is more to come." Both Hine and Jorgensen will race at Nike Indoor Nationals next month. The boys' 2 miles saw a welcome return to competition by Murfreesboro's Chris Berry. The Blackman High senior clocked a 9:32.23 PR to place 3rd, while Knoxville West duo Stuart Chandler (9:39.36) and Matt Sonnenfeldt (9:43.03), also notched new PRS, and placed 4th and 5th respectively. [results] 02.17.07: CABADA CRUISES TO 5000 WIN AT VIRGINIA TECH INVITE. Bristol's Fernando Cabada raced for the first time since his spectacular marathon debut in Japan in December, running the 5000 meters at the Virginia Tech Invite in Blacksburg,VA. The 24-year-old clocked 14:20.98, some 46 seconds off his outdoor best, but still the fastest so far this year by a Tennessean. [results] 02.17.07: BAD NEWS FOR HOYAS: HILL DOESN'T ADVANCE IN 800, BUMBALOUGH A SCRATCH AT BIG EAST MEET. Murfreesboro's Kelvin Hill found his 1:54.95 clocking in the 800m prelims at the Big East Conference Championships in Akron,OH was not good enough to advance to the final, although two of his Georgetown teammates did make it. Brentwood's Andrew Bumbalough, who was hoping to make a return to competition at this meet, scratched from the meet. [results] 02.17.07: WILLIAMS ALMOST PULLS OFF DOUBLE WIN AT ATLANTIC SUN CONFERENCE MEET. Nashville's Lauren Williams, a senior at Belmont University, very nearly left Johnson City 02.17.07: FANNING AND PEACOCK WINNERS AT FROSTBITE HALF-MARATHON. Lebanon's Scott Fanning and Murfreesboro's Theresa Peacock were never seriously challenged as overall winners at the 27th annual Frostbite Half-Marathon held, for the last year, at Montgomery Bell State Park. Despite the hills and the snow, Fanning had an impressive 1:15:57 solo run to finish over 2 minutes clear of runner-up Stephen Gordon of Nashville, with Nashville's Tony Serna, 40, leading the masters home in 1:26:51. Peacock, 44, clocked 1:33:29 to beat her nearest female rival by 4 minutes. [results] 02.17.07: BEYER AND TATE LEAD HALF-MARATHONERS AT STRAWBERRY PLAINS. Thirty-nine year old James Beyer of Dayton,OH was the class of the field among the men at the Strawberry Plains Half-Marathon. He clocked 1:13:47 to win by 97 seconds from Brandon Kibert of Barbourville,KY. Fifty-year-old Jeff Colfer led the male masters home, clocking 1:21:10, good for 9th overall. Among the women, Amanda Tate from Bristol,VA clocked 1:25:57 to finish first overall, while 41-year-old Kathy Wolski was the second female finisher overall, clocking 1:27:47. [results] 02.17.07: RUNNER'S MARKET DOMINATE STRAWBERRY PLAINS 10K. Knoxville runners are used to seeing the red and white uniforms of the Runner's Market team leading the fields home at area road races and, despite the absence of several of the Big Red's key runners, they swept the top three finishing spots among the men at the Strawberry Plains 10K. Elijah Shekinah hot the line first in a time of 34:24, with Joseph Goetz finishing 12 seconds behind and Daniel Julian a further 13 seconds back. Taylor Poling's overall female win, in a PR of 40:15, sweetened the deal. Sixty-one year old Bob Barber finished two steps, and one second, ahead of Poling to claim the male masters win, while54-year-old Peggy Tague of Oak Ridge was the first female master to finish, clocking 54:12. [results] 02.13.07: INTERVIEW WITH ALLIE BOHANNON. Twenty-year-old Allie 02.10.07: KIMMONS 2nd AT MERCEDES MARATHON. Nashville's Keith Kimmons bettered his 2006 finish by one place to finish 2nd overall at the Mercedes Marathon in Birmingham,AL, clocking 2:33:20. The 25-year-old former UT runner, who recently moved back to Nashville after a stint in Missoula,MT, benefited from better planning this year (last year he was in a port-a-john when the gun went off!) and a conservative racing strategy, splitting 1:18:14 at halfway. Kimmons split two brothers from Ecuador, Esteban and Diego Vanegas with his runner-up finish. "I too kit pretty easy, running 5:55 miles until about 14," he told TR, "and then I pushed on and started hitting 5:40s pretty consistently." Race winner, Esteban Vanegas, who lives in Michigan, had a lead of 8 minutes at halfway, but Kimmons whittled that margin down to 3:06 with a speedy second half. Kimmons' next targeted race is the Tom King Classic Half-Marathon on March 17th. [results] 02.10.07: BIZUNEH 7th AT U.S CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS. In one of the strongest fields ever assembled for the U.S. Cross-Country Championships, Bristol's Fasil Bizuneh finished 7th and earned a spot on the U.S. team for the IAAF World Cross-Country Championships in Mombasa,Kenya next month. Bizuneh, 26, who moved to Tennessee from Arizona last July, and was an All-American while at Arizona State, clocked 38:24 over the tough, muddy Tennessee was well represented in the masters' races as well. In the men's masters 8K race, Germantown's Mark Newman, 44, ran exceptionally well to place 6th (5th in the 40-44 age group) in an excellent time of 26:58, just 30 seconds down on winner Dennis Simonaitis of Utah. And in the men's 60-64 age group, Loudon's Bob Barber placed 2nd in 33:17. [results | post-race interview with Bizuneh | masters age-graded results] 02.10.07: SORRELL'S 4:06 ANCHORS RECORD-BREAKING SOONER QUARTET AT TYSON INVITE. Memphis miler Rob Sorrell clocked a 4:06 1600-meter leg in anchoring Oklahoma to time of 9:44.59 on Day 2 of the Tyson Invitational. The mark established a new OU indoor record, eclipsing the 9:48.38 set in 1990. The mark also provisionally qualified the OU quartet for the NCAA Championships. Earlier in the day, UCLA sophomore Allie Bohannon, just 21 hours after eclipsing her 1 mile PR, lowered her 800m PR with a 2:11.02 cloking to win her heat of that event. And in the heat before, Chattanooga's Phoebe Wright, a freshman Lady Vol, clocked a big PR of 2:13.37. Over 3000 meters, Collierville's Renae Van Wyhe, a freshman at Baylor, had a fine run, clocking 9:56.72 to crack 10 minutes for the first time and place 4th in her heat. [results | NCAA performance lists] 02.10.07: MORGAN DEFENDS HOME TURF AT TRAIL OF TEARS 7-MILER. Local runner, Caleb Morgan, a Walker Valley High gaduate now running for nearby Bryan College, was an easy winner of the Trail of Tears 7-miler in Cleveland. This race was the 14th stop (of 16) on the Tennessee State Parks Running Tour, and Morgan, just 19, made light work of the challenging course, clocking 40:02 to win by 40 seconds over Cookeville's Mark Brzuchalski. Belinda Young hopped over the state line from Chatsworth,GA to lead the women home in a time of 48:31. Murfreesboro's Bruce Tanksley, 47, and Knoxville's Lliza Graves, 50, took the masters titles, running 45:04 and 54:56 respectively. [results] 02.10.07: HORTON WINS DISTANCE DOUBLE AT MTSU VALENTINE MEET. Demonstrating his great range, Knoxville's Alan Horton continued his fine recent form with a 1 mile PR and victory at the MTSU Valentine Indoor Invitational in Murfreesboro. Horton, 26, who qualified for the Olympic Trials Marathon in October, clocked 4:20.75, and then, just 2 hours later, won a somewhat pedestrian 3000-meter race with a similar late kick tactic, clocking 8:52.77. [results] 02.10.07: MEADOWS LEADS HOME RUNNERS AT BARTLETT'S VALENTINE'S DAY RACES. Fifteen-year-old Mike meadows of Cordova led home the 5K runners at the Valentine's Day races in Bartlett, clocking 16:22, while Tate Blair led the women home in 22:29. First masters finishers were Jimmy Arnold, 53, and Valerie Merritt, 45, clocking times of 20:55 and 25:40 respectively. Thirty-nine year old Michael Dwyer was a comfortable victor in the 10K, clocking 37:40, while Maggie Finley led the women home in 40:59. First male and female masters home were Alberto Velasco, 51, who was second overall in 39:04, and 54-year-old Ginny Wood who clocked 45:47. [results: 10K | 5K] 02.10.07: AUSSIE BLOWS AWAY FIELD, WHILE DAVIS MAKES IT 4 IN A ROW AT FANGTASTIC 5K. Australian Daniel Matena was in a class by himself at the Fangtastic 5K in downtown Nashville. A record field of almost 2200 runners lined up outside Gaylord Entertainment Center despite the 23-degree temperature at race time. Matena, 23, a former Belmont University runner who is in Nashville visiting his girlfriend, led from the gun, and clocked 15:48 over the challenging downtown course to romp home 33 seconds clear of runner-up, Spring Hill's Mitchell Jones. Meanwhile, former UT-Chattanooga runner, Andrea Davis of Nashville, won her fourth consecutive female overall title at this event, clocking 19:40 to finish well clear. First male and femals masters home were 47-year-old Paul Scalisi of Brentwood and 54-year-old Victoria Crisp of Nashville, clocking times of 17:32 and 20:35 respectively. [results] 02.09.07: BOHANNON CLOCKS 4:41 MILE AT TYSON INVITATIONAL. It wasn't the NCAA automatic qualifying time she was shooting for, but Nashville's 02.04.07: DATES ANNOUNCED FOR NASHVILLE'S HIGH PERFORMANCE TRACK MEET SERIES. Tennessee Running will stage three high performance, distance-focused track meets in Nashville this year. Each meet will be held on a 02.04.07: MULVANEY CLOCKS 2:39 AT PACIFIC SHORELINE MARATHON.Nashville's Benjamin Mulvaney fared well at the Pacific Shoreline Marathon in Huntington Beach,CA. Mulvaney, 30, an engineer for GE, was racing for his employer in the corporate championships being held in conjunction with the event. After running conservatively, splitting 6:10s for the first 18 miles, Mulvaney hammered in the last 8.2 miles at 5:50 pace. Placing 2nd overall, the former Div.II All-American cross-country runner (at Missouri-Rolla) clocked 2:39:18, just under four minutes behind overall winner Jason Weber of Virginia. It was an impressive run by Mulvaney, especially since his training for the event was "light," he had told TR the previous week, and he was "only shooting for a low 2:40's clocking." [results] 02.03.07: SORRELL'S 4:06 MILE LEADS SLEW OF FAST TIMES BY TENNESSEANS ON AT ARMORY. Oklahoma University freshman, Rob Sorrell, was just one of a dozen or so Tennesseans in action at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational held at the Amory in New York City. As usual, the lightning-fast, 200-meter banked track in Harlem yielded someimpressive clockings, key among which was Sorrell's 4:06.78 1 mile clocking. Finishing 3rd in the first heat of The previous day saw Sorrell clock an impressive 2:28.02 for 1000 meters and also saw Arkansas sophomore Denise Bargiachi, who also hails from Memphis, clock 16:52.80 in finishing second in the 'championship' women's 5000m. And in the men's 5000-meter races, UT senior Andy Baksa (from Knoxville) placed 3rd in 14:35.16 in the 'championship' race, while UNC soph, Brock Baker (from Nashville), continued his steady improvement and ducked under 15 minutes for the first time in his heat. Sorrell, like Bargiachi and many others, will run in the Tyson Invitational at the University of Arkansasn next week, but he will only run the DIstance Medley Relay. He will anchor an OU quartet that will be seeking a provisional qualifying mark for March's NCAA National Championships. [results | state rankings: men | women] 02.03.07: SCHOOL RECORD FOR WILLIAMS IN BLOOMINGTON . Competing at the Indiana Relays in Bloomington, IN. Nashville's Lauren Williams, who was a stand-out prep runner while at David Lipscomb High, broke the Belmont University mile record with a time of 4:56.92 to win the unseeded 1 mile race, just ahead of Vanderbilt's Erika Schneble. Williams' run bested the old mark set by Lisa Crampton by over eight seconds. [results] 02.03.07: GOETZ CONTINUES FINE FORM ON TIGHT SEWANEE TRACK. Chattanoogan, Daniel Goetz, running for Bryan College (who recently signed Brentwood High senior Hunter Hall), performed well in the cramped quarters of the University of the South fieldhouse. Goetz started off his afternoon with a win in the men's mile and new facility record, clocking 4:22.70 on the 160-meter unbanked track. He then took 2nd place in the 800m, clocking 2:00.81."I'm very pleased," said Bryan College coach Rodney Stoker. "Goetz hit the provisional qualifier [for the NAIA National Championships] in the mile on a very tight track. He should go much faster on a nice 200 meter banked oval." [results] 02.03.07: GRUFFERTY, TATE TAKE OVERALL WINS AT WAR PARTY 10K . Former ETSU runner James Grufferty continued his return to form with an overal win at the War Party 10K held in Warrior's Path State Park in Kingsport. 168 runners braved windchills in the teens at this event, the 13th race in the Tennessee State Parks Running Tour. Grufferty, 24, an Irish native, clocked 34:48 over the tough 10-kilometer course, to win by a tenth of a mile from Bristol's Casey Kreger, 20, who ran 35:15. Amanda Tate from the Virginia side of Bristol, hopped over the state line to add some class to the women's field, clocking an impressive 39:06 to win by over 3 minutes. First male and female masters home were Kingsport's Terry Ketron, 43, who clocked 38:27, and 49-year-old Sherrie Giles of Franklin, who clocked 46:37. [results] 02.03.07: BADDORF, RAGLE EASY WINNERS AT MIKE CODY 4-MILER. Bryan Baddorf and Wendy Ragle won the overall titles at the Mike Cody 4-miler in Memphis. 191 finishers braved single digit windchills and gathered at Rhodes College for the race. Baddorf, 24, a former Samford University runner, who works at nearby specialty running store, Breakaway Athletics, clocked 22:21 to win by a comfortable 35-second margin over richard Brazzel, who claimed the masters' title. Ragle, 26, clocked 25:50, while 40-year-old Jeannine Watts led the female masters hime, clocking 29:05. [results] 02.03.07: LEGROS WINS AT TEAM NASHVILLE 10-MILER. A wind chill temperature of 13 degrees greeted the 179 hardy souls who lined up for the Team Nashville 10-miler in Goodlettsville's Moss-Wright Park. A quartet of runners - Brentwood's Eric Legros and Nashville's Jacob Carrigan, Jeff Edmonds, and Stephen Gordon - soon separated themselves from the masses. Gordon fell off the back of this pack shortly before the halfway mark, but the top three remained together until 7.5 miles. Carrigan, hampered by a troublesome knee, slowed dramatically and Gordon rallied well, passing Carrigan, and making inroads on the leaders. But by the time they came off the last hill at 9 miles, it was Legros who had forged ahead, and the Frenchman kicked away easily in the last downhill half-mile to win in 57:19, finishing 10 seconds up on Edmonds, who, in turn, finished 17 seconds up on a fast-finishing Gordon. In a women's race that lacked any real depth, Tonya Lumphrey was the class of the field, clocking 1:08:54 to win by over a kilometer. First masters home were Brentwood's John Lovell, 49, and Pamela Hobson, 45, clocking times of 1:00:56 and 1:23:08 respectively. [results]
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came back, 90 minutes later, in the 800m, and clocked an impressive 2:13.36 indoor PR (just 0.12 seconds off her outdoor PR) to place second in that event behind Michigan's Ramzee Fondren. "I'm very excited," Hine told TR. "It was a really good day, and I got two indoor PRs. The 800 was pretty physical. I got boxed, elbowed, and spiked. I ended up breaking free and moving up on the inside, which is dangerous, but it paid off." 
Saturday night under the lights at Vanderbilt University's track. and will offer a range of open, seeded competitions and, at the end of the meets, featured AMC (American Miler's Club Invitational Events). The meets purposes are three-fold, explained meet director Dave Milner. "First, they provide post-collegiate runners with opprtunities to seek a qualifier for the national championships in late June. Second, they give the opportunity for NCAA and NAIA athletes to get qualifiers for their respective regional and national championships. And third, they help raise the profile of distance running in the state of Tennessee." The dates of the three meets are May 5th, May 12th, amd June 2nd, with the 3rd annual Music City Distance Carnival being the last of the three meets. The Distance Carnival has grown into one of the best track meets in the nation for distance runners. [
the'championship' 1 mile race, Sorrell (right), who hails from Bartlett, and won 5 state titles while at Bolton High, split 2:01 for the last half, and 58.5 for the last 400m, of a race that had sluggish 3rd and 4th laps and was won by BYU's Kyle Perry in 4:04.53. 
