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Amusan advances to 100-meter hurdles final for second straight season

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Adrian Broaddus

The women’s competition kicked off the second day of 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday in Eugene, Oregon.

UTEP sophomore Tobi Amusan clocked the fastest qualifying time (12.79) of the 100-m hurdles semifinals event to win heat two and advance to the finals for the second straight season. The final will be aired live on ESPN at 5:10 p.m. MT on Saturday, June 10. Amusan will be seeking gold after taking home silver in last year’s final.

In the 800-m running event, Lilian Koech’s season came to an end after finishing 23rd overall with a time of 2:09.30.

In the nightcap, Winny Koech’s also fell short after running a time of 34:51.32 to place 23rd in the 10,000-m final.

Emmanuel Korir and Michael Saruni will be competing in the final of the men’s 800-m run starting at 7:45 p.m. on Friday, June 9, live on ESPN. Both Korir and Saruni are coming off heat wins in the semifinals as well as finishing in the top three overall.

On the women’s side, Lucia Mokrasova will be competing in the first of four events (100-m hurdles, high jump, shot out and 200-m dash) of the heptathlon. You can watch the heptathlon on espn3.com starting at 1:30 p.m.

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Jeremy Carranco
Jeremy Carranco, Sports Editor
Adrian Broaddus, Sports Editor
Adrian Broaddus is the sports editor for The Prospector. He is a junior multimedia journalism major with a minor in political science.   Adrian was born and raised in El Paso, TX, and is a graduate of Franklin high school. He entered college in the fall of 2015 in hopes to better his career in journalism.   Along with sports, Adrian enjoys writing music reviews, perspective columns and news stories on politics.   Although he is pursuing his degree in journalism, Adrian would like to go to law school and be an attorney while doing part-time work in journalism.  
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Amusan advances to 100-meter hurdles final for second straight season