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Article: Taye, other athletes beat heat Portland junior runs away with two golds and silver at meet
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- July 12, 2004
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ORONO - Many of the best performances of the USATF Junior Olympic
Region 1 Track and Field Championships were saved for the last day
despite some sweltering heat and humid conditions.
Ayalew Taye and the hundreds of other athletes competing in
Sunday's events at the University of Maine's Beckett Track Comlpex
turned in top performances while qualifying for the national meet.
Taye, who will be a junior at Portland High School, qualified for
the nationals in three different events (4x800, 1,500, 800), and was
Maine's top performer.
Taye's middle event, the 1,500, was probably the best of the
three. He just missed breaking the four-minute barrier, running a
strong race, finishing in 4 minutes, ...