Indiana's Sarah Pease wins the women's steeplechase. Photo by Kim Spir

Event 70: College men’s steeplechase: Donn Cabral of Princeton wins in 8:48.92. Results.

Event 72: Olympic Development men’s steeplechase: Steve Slattery ran wire to wire for an 8:41.15 victory. Results.

Events 73 & 74 (run concurrently): Olympic Development and college women’s steeplechase: Sarah Pease of Indiana was the overall winner in 10:16.51. College results. OD results.

Event 76: College women’s 3000-meter run championship: Lucy Van Dalen (Stony Brook) took off from the start and won by more than 100 meters in 9:17.23. Results.

Event 77: College women’s 5000-meter run championship: Holly Van Dalen (Stony Brook) matches her sister with a strong 16:06.99 victory. Results.

Event 78: Olympic Development women’s 5000-meter run: Former Villanova runner Frances Koons pulled away from defending champion Toni Salucci on the last lap to win in 15:43.78–15:45.65. Also of note: Canadian Olympian Carmen Douma-Hussar, another former Villanova great, finished fourth in 15:51.04. Results.

Event 79: College men’s 5000-meter run championship: William & Mary’s Lewis Woodard bolted into the lead at the bell then held on in the final 50 meters to win in 14:01.51. Eastern Kentucky’s Soufiane Bouchikhi (14:01.71) and Florida’s Justin Taylor (14:02.10) each briefly had the lead in the final steps. Results.

Event 81: Olympic Development men’s 5000-meter run: Ryan Blood (Keytsone Elite) won comfortably in 14:02.17. Results.

Events 82 & 83 (run concurrently): College women’s and Olympic Development 10,000-meter run: Maureen McCandless (Keystone Elite) was the overall winner in 32:57.59, the fastest winning time since 2001. Joana Rivero (Turabo, Puerto Rico) was second overall, and the college winner, in 34:13.37. OD results. College results.

Events 84 & 85 (run concurrently): College men’s and Olympic Development 10,000 meter run: Colin Leak of William & Mary was the overall winner, in 29:38.01. Roland Lavallee (New Balance Boston) was the OD winner, seventh overall, in 29:54.04. College results. OD results.

Angel Piccirillo wins the HSG Mile (Photo Kim Spir)

Angel Piccirillo (Homer Center, PA) and Emily Lipari (Roslyn Heights, NY) won the HSG Mile and 3K respectively. Lipari’s time of 9:34 moved her into the Top 10.

Emily Lipari at the finish (Photo Kim Spir)

And like we reported last week, the World’s fastest man, Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, will be running in the USA vs. the World 4×100-meter relay, scheduled for 2:50 pm on Saturday, April 24th. Bolt’s competition agent, Ricky Simms, said of his return to the Relays, “Usain has been looking forward to going back to the Penn Relays for some time. There are so many Jamaican fans in the stadium, they create a carnival atmosphere and he is looking forward to a great event.”

Olympic Development Men’s Steeplechase: Eric Ashe jumped Luke Watson at the bell and nearly stole the race, but Watson had another gear and moved back into the front in the final 10 meters, for a 8:55.84-8:56.06 victory. Results.

Women’s Steeplechase (College & OD combined in one race): Fridereke Feil of Florida Atlantic and Stephanie Pancoast of Cornell broke away from the field in the final kilometer. Pancoast took the win in 10:30.46. Results: College and OD.

College Women’s 3000: Lucy Van Dalen (Stony Brook) bolted into the lead with one lap to go, but couldn’t hold off Danielle Tauro of Michigan, who edged ahead in the final stride and won, 9:33.18 to 9:33.32. Defending champ Liz Costello (Princeton) led most of the way and wound up third, in 9:36.16. Results.

College Women’s 5000: SEC rivals Genevieve LaCaze (Florida) and Jackie Aerson (Tennessee) battled over the final 600, with Aerson putting on a major burst in the final 150 to run 16:11.71. LaCaze finished in 16:13.61. Results.

Olympic Development Women’s 5000: Toni Salucci broke away after 3500 meters and quickly established a 40 meter lead. She won easily in 16:17.70, even as Amanda LoPiccolo (16:20.83) closed fast over the final two laps. Results.

College Men’s 5000: Patrick Sovacool of Miami (OH) ran solo for most of the race, opening up as much as 30 meters on the field. A determined chase pack gradually closed ground and Mike Krisch of Georgetown took the lead at 4400 meters. A lap later Chris Clark of California (PA) and John Anderson of Army came flying by. Anderson had just enough for the win, 13:58.23 to 13:58.51. Results.

Olympic Development Men’s 5000. Results.

College Women’s 10,000. Results

Olympic Development Women’s 10,000. Results

College Men’s 10,000. Results

Olympic Development Men’s 10,000. Results.

In the women’s Olympic Development 5K, Maria-Elana Calle withstood a last-lap challenge from Jennifer Donovan to win in 16:25.09. Donovan held on for second in 16:26.84, one-hundreth of a second ahead of Brooke Kish. Calle wins for the second year in a row and collects her third overall Penn title, having won the college women’s 5000 in 2000 while at Virginia Commonwealth.

Iona runners dominated the early going of the college men’s 5000, but it was ACC champion Stephen Furst of North Carolina State who came on strong at the end to win, in 13:49.19. Daniel Kanyaruhuru of Queens University (NC) was a step behind, in 13:49.29.

Anthony Famigletti is in the men’s Olympic Development race. Fam ran a U.S. leading 8:26.94 last week at the Mt. SAC Relays. He takes an early 10m lead over Nicodemus Naimandu, who won the college steeple the past three years while at Abilene Christian. At the halfway point the lead is 25 meters and David Cheromei is in second, 5 meters up on Naimand… With a lap to go (7:15) the lead is about 100 meters… Famigletti wins in 8:24.24, breaking his own Penn record of 8:25.02. Naimandu rallies for second in 8:42.20, with Cheromei third in 8:46.10. Fam also sets a new Franklin Field record of 8:24.86 by James Munyala of UTEP at the 1976 NCAA championships.