The exhibitions:
In an early exhibition Masters Mile, Saucony/Hurtin’ For Certain ace Chris Teague uncorked a 31-second final 200 for the win in 4:29:05 with Ray Pugsley right on his heels. “I figured that’s what it would take to win,” said Teague. “This was a fast crowd.”
Corey McGee had won Millrose by running the legs off Rosalyn, NY’s Emily Lipari. Not this time. Villanova-bound Lipari hung tight with the fast pace thrown down by McGee and then blew by on the final lap backstretch to win in a meet record 4:46.77. Phillips-Exeter junior Kristen Coogan – daughter of Olympians Mark & Gwyn Coogan – ran a PR 4:59 but wasn’t totally satisfied: “It was a fast pace and I got pushed out the back end, if I stayed more in the middle I would have pushed myself to get further under five.”
The Millrose boys mile winner took the junior 8-lapper out, but this was a stronger field than Millrose. Returned from injury, Fayetville-Manlius (NY) star Alex Hatz won going away in 4:12.08.
–Bob F.
Lagat gets it right the first time
BOSTON – As the Mid-Atlantic weathered a blizzard, a drive up Interstate 95 found the world’s best track and field athletes scorching the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in front of a capacity crowd at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games. The star of the night was World Champion, Olympic medalist and President of the Millrose Games boards, American Bernard Lagat. Lagat had stated his goal: to break the American record at But with 1000m to go, the reigning American record holder, With 300m to go Lagat narrowly escaped being boxed in and For the second straight week, Lagat was named the Team USA Trammell takes hurdles again The defending Indoor Visa Champion and Millrose winner, Ethiopia-U.S. battle in women’s 3000m The 3,000m became a three-woman race with four laps Batman heroic Bershawn “Batman” Jackson worked hard for his second win in Dibaba the destroyer In the highly anticipated Visa women’s 5,000m, Ethiopian Barber does it again Millrose Games winner Lisa Barber proved once again that Ivory coasts New week, same result as Ivory Williams bested 2009 US Around the Reggie In other events, DeeDee Trotter showed she has fully Winners of exhibition events Saturday night included Emily For more information and full quotes from the 2010 Reebok Boston Indoor Games, visit www.bostonindoorgames.com. For more information on the2010 Visa Championship Series, visit www.visachampionshipseries.com.
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