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()ret;un s ( olio Dalton (leftI unii (ireii H hitelex eat h broke tour minute's in
the I will if h t Mile S at uni ax
Four-minute barrier
bettered by 2 in mile
By Ashley Conklin
(beg Whitehw grow up in
Southern (!<il ifornif) then
moved in the Kast (.'oast to run
inllegiateK a! Itrown I'niversi
t\
Now lie 11\t*s in l.ugene and
vvuulii ! ih* In make it 111\
home lot a couple of \ ears It
he keeps miiiimg sub four min
ole miles .it llavward field lie
should have no problem adjust
mg In Kugene
It was the promise of running
a suti tour minute mile that
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Illicit Whiteles to run in Satur
days (Jregim I'vvilighl Mile,
and he did just that with a win
ning time n| t VI 22 before a
i row d ut I H it
"It's wontlertul. a great feel
mg Whiffles said ut breaking
four minutes I just tried to
hrdd on at tlie end I had to
keep a strung pace going lie
i miso I'm not a great kit kei
\\ hitelev needed ev erv tiling
he had at the end to hold oft
Oregon's Colin Dalton, who
finished with a strong ku k and
broke tour minutes (or the first
time ever in I ei O
I lalton i • hi Id hav e automate
tails qualitied tin the \( \.\
1 Vtll meters ss ith a mile time
ut I Vi 12 hut ssas more con
terned about breaking foui
minutes than tjualifs ing lur the
\< \As
"1 se run III tile \( A As he
fore hut I haven't broken four
minutes before Dalton salt!
I don't rnind losing as long as
I break lour minutes
! ialton said he sal at home
I ridav night and made .1 list ot
\\ hat he hatl to at t ontpltsh this
weekend breaking tour min
utes in the mile was at the lop
ot tile list
I had to read a book Im ling
llsh do some Italian and break
tour minutes m the mile ' lie
said Novi all I have to do is
tlo some homework
While the mile was the high
light ol (lie Oregon Twilight it
wasn't the onl\ event that of
fered ext itemenl
hornier Oregon star Dan Nel
son the 1087 \( A A 1 hamp in
the t.000-meter steeplechase,
outkuked .1 strong field in that
event to w in easily in H 14 t)
Another former Duck. Matt
Mi (.nilk was second in 8 to 0
followed In W eber State's Hrad
barton (H tti.O) and Oregon's
Kit k Mestler (It 4 17)
Mestler's tune broke Ins old
personal ret ord of ft 4 I J‘l and
put him under the \( A A auto
ni.itit standard of 8 4 1 lit)
l or Mestler a two time all
American, Saturday's race end
ed a season of frustration that
started when he missed most of
winter training w ith injuries
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