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NCAA Championships: Eight Athletes Top 70 Feet

15 March 2008 at 16:27 - 0 comments - link
An amazing eight athletes topped 70 feet in the men's final on Saturday afternoon.  Favorite Egor Agafonov (Kansas) (pictured to the right; photo by Kirby Lee) led the competition throughout and finished with a fifth round effort of 22.71m (74-06.25).  Walter Henning (North Carolina) sat in second, until Jake Dunkleberger passed him in the finals.  Jon Pullum (Purdue) had the same mark as henning, but had to settle for fourth.  Overall, five of the top seven throwers threw personal bests.  While not throwing personal bests, both Agafonov and Dunkleberger threw season bests.  In any event, it was a memorable conlcusion to the NCAA championship weekend.

Men
    Name                    Year School                  Finals           
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  1 Egor Agafonov             SR Kansas                  22.71m   74-06.25       
  2 Jake Dunkleberger         SR Auburn                  22.24m   72-11.75       
  3 Walter Henning            FR North Carolina          22.02m   72-03.00       
  4 Jon Pullum                SO Purdue                  22.02m   72-03.00       
  5 Simon Wardhaugh           JR Boise State             21.93m   71-11.50       
  6 Matthew Wauters           JR Idaho                   21.56m   70-09.00       
  7 Boldizsar Kocsor          JR UCLA                    21.37m   70-01.50       
  8 Chris Rohr                JR Missouri                21.34m   70-00.25       
  9 Jason Schutz              SR Colorado State          20.98m   68-10.00       
 10 Lenny Jatsek              SR Ohio State              20.77m   68-01.75       
 11 Jake Shanklin             JR Wyoming                 20.68m   67-10.25       
 12 Dave Ebersole             SR Ohio State              20.30m   66-07.25       
 13 Tyler Dailey              SR Missouri                20.08m   65-10.50       
 14 Russ Winger               SR Idaho                   19.94m   65-05.00       
 15 Jason Lewis               SO Arizona State           19.66m   64-06.00       
 16 Steve Bartholomew         SR Valparaiso              19.54m   64-01.25      
 17 Andy Fryman               SR Kentucky                19.37m   63-06.75
 
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