Minnesota stellar 4 x 800 at Drake

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12 years ago 04/29/2011 8:20pm EDT

7:19, 4 second margin (so might have been faster if pressed). Also hands Wisconsin a big beating in what was probably the biggest relay of the meet.

1 Minnesota 7:19.51

1) David Pachuta JR 2) Travis Burkstrand SO

3) Nick Hutton SO 4) Harun Abda SO

2 Iowa 7:23.77

1) Adam Hairston SR 2) Nathan Prom FR

3) Jeff Thode SO 4) Erik Sowinski JR

3 Notre Dame 7:25.75

1) Randall Babb JR 2) Mitch Lorenz JR

3) Kevin Labus SR 4) Jack Howard SR

4 Nebraska 7:28.93

1) Blaise Rewaka SR 2) Tommy Brinn SO

3) Brett Gooden JR 4) Ethan Luebbe SR

5 Wisconsin 7:29.02

1) Zach Beth FR 2) Tim Hucke FR

3) Luke Rucks SR 4) Zach Mellon FR

12 years ago 04/29/2011 8:34pm EDT

re: 26mi235

12 years ago 04/29/2011 8:43pm EDT

re: charcot marie tooth

Buckeyes went 7:17 last year!

12 years ago 04/29/2011 8:54pm EDT

re: hate bucks?

Crappy race for the badgers!!

12 years ago 04/29/2011 8:58pm EDT

re: hate bucks?

Crappy race for the badgers!!

12 years ago 04/29/2011 10:49pm EDT

re: Coach pinks

Badgers run sub 7:30 with 3 frosh and a senior I have never heard of. They did not bring their A team.

12 years ago 04/29/2011 10:56pm EDT

re: 26mi235

To clarify:

Zach Beth fell 250m into the first lap and from there on the badgers worked back up into 5th

and

the team was two 5th year seniors and two red-shirt freshman

12 years ago 04/29/2011 11:04pm EDT

re: Masterof

what means Drake meet?

12 years ago 04/30/2011 1:31am EDT

re: nerp

One of the freshman placed (5th or 4th) at NCAA Indoors last year, the senior made NCAA outdoors Nationals (i.e., got through Regionals with a really smart and/or lucky race), and the no-name in the group, Hucke, has been comping along quietly but steadily.

This is a quartet that is capable of running 7:15 in the right situation.

12 years ago 04/30/2011 11:25am EDT

re: charcot marie tooth

All four guys were almost the exact splits, according the announcer of the meet who was reading off the splits, there were all right around 149.9. They all looked strong, considering the last 2 legs were essentially by themselves and its quite difficult to run a fast 800 out there on an island like that. Its also pretty ridiculous that they have 6 sub 150 guys on their team right now, outside of blankenship, who i am sure can run it, as he has a 150 point PR from 2 years ago.

12 years ago 04/30/2011 11:46am EDT

re: TKHK 800

As opposed to Boston, these are "wind-resisted" times. Great performance by the GG's.

12 years ago 05/02/2011 12:26pm EDT

re: nerp

nerp wrote:
Badgers run sub 7:30 with 3 frosh and a senior I have never heard of. They did not bring their A team.

Mellon and Beth have both been All-american over 800m indoors, Rucks made Outdoor nationals over 800m last year. Beth is actually a senior with Rucks. I don't know the Huckle kid..

This is their A team I assure you.

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