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Site: RCA Dome, Indianapolis, IN
Event: 1998 Men's NCAA Indoor Championship
Michigan Team Finish: Sixth
Next Meet: Saturday March, 28 -- The Wolverines travel to Tempe, AZ for the Arizona State Castillo Invitational in the opener for the outdoor season

Sullivan's Wins Mile Run To Help Michigan To Sixth Place Finish Nationally

Indianapolis, IN -- Only once since the NCAA began a men's indoor championship for track and field have the Wolverines enjoyed a better finish than this year's sixth place finish. The 1995 squad finished fourth in the nation to give the Maize and Blue their best finish since the NCAA Indoor Championships began in 1965. The sixth place finish allows the Wolverines to swallow their disappointing sixth place Big Ten finish a little bit easier.

Michigan superstar Kevin Sullivan (Brantford, ONT/North Park) did not dissapoint in his final appearance at the NCAA Indoor Championship. After anchoring the final leg for the Wolverines third place distance medley relay team last night, Sullivan returned to win his second NCAA title in the mile run with a time of 4:03.54 on Saturday afternoon. Sullivan's victory came in the most exciting race of the weekend and one of the more exciting mile runs in NCAA Indoor Championship history. Sullivan's much anticipated duel with Seneca Lassiter of Arkasnas turned into a three man race down the stretch as the three milers finished within six one-hundredths of a second apart. Bryan Berryhill of Colorado State finished second at 4:03.55 while Lassiter followed those two with a time of 4:03.60. Sullivan's other title in the mile run came when he set an NCAA Indoor Championship meet record in 1995 at a pace of 3:55.33.

NOTES:

-- Sullivan now has four NCAA track championships. The other three being the indoor mile, indoor distance medley relay and outdoor 1500-meter run, all of which happened in 1995.

-- Mortimer is only the third Wolverine to earn All-America honors in the 5000-meter run

-- Sullivan is the first Wolverine in history to record four NCAA track titles, numerous Michigan athletes have won three crowns.

-- Sullivan is Michigan's only champion ever in the indoor mile

-- Sullivan entered the championship with the best 3000-meter time (7:51.65) in the country but chose not to run the race so he could concentrate on the distance medley relay and mile run

-- Sullivan has now become a 10-time NCAA track and field All-American

-- Michigan's 1978 team also finished sixth at NCAA Indoor Championship

1998 NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP MEN'S RESULTS

FINAL TEAM STANDINGS

1) Arkansas		56
2) Stanford		36.50
3) Clemson		26
3) Washington State	26 
5) Southern Methodist	23
6) Michigan		20
7) South Carolina	18
7) Florida		18
7) Georgia Tech		18
7) Baylor		18

MILE RUN
Trials
Heat I		
1) Daniel Kinyua (Mt. St. Mary's)	4:03.68
Heat II
1) Sullivan, Kevin (UM)			4:03.01
Final
1) Sullivan, Kevin (UM)			4:03.54
2) Berryhill, Bryan (Col. St.)		4:03.55
3) Lassiter, Seneca (Arkansas)		4:03.60
4) Riley, Jonathen (Stanford)		4:05.03
5) Kinyua, Daniel (Mt. St. Mary's)	4:05.28
6) Colenso, Clyde (SMU)			4:05.79
7) Price, Phil (Arkansas)		4:06.61
8) Davis, Todd (Portland)		4:07.40	

5000-METER RUN
1) Hauser, Brad (Stanford)		13:58.50
2) Kaley, Sean (Arkansas)		13:58.87
3) Keflezighi, Mebrahtom (UCLA)		14:00.00
4) Hauser, Brent (Stanford)		14:00.62
5) Mortimer, John (UM)			14:02.25
6) Lempirikany, Sual (Iowa St)		14:06.28
7) Abdirahman, Abdi (Arizona)		14:06.38
8) Jurevich, Jim (MSU)			14:12.44

DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY
1) Washington State	9:29.54
2) Arkansas		9:30.45
3) Michigan		9:36.84
4) Stanford		9:38.19
5) Brown		9:39.44
6) Georgetown		9:40.03
7) UCLA			9:42.23
8) James Madison	9:43.54