Davies nabs spot in 800 finals at youth outdoors
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Friday, July 6, 2007
Jacob Davies qualified for the finals in the 800-meter run at the 2007 USATF Youth Outdoor National Championships in Lisle, Ill., on Thursday with a fourth-place finish in the preliminaries.
Davies, running as a member of the Emporia Track Club, ran a personal-best time of 1 minute, 55.44 seconds, which was .10 seconds better than his State title-winning time of 1:55.54 that he ran at the State meet in May.
Lance Roller had the top time in prelims with a 1:54.01.
The finals of the 800-meter run will be at 3:15 p.m. Saturday.
Also set to compete on Saturday will be Brandon Childs in the high jump.
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