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Natasha LaBeaud moves into the lead, but Kate Niehaus and Nichole Jones are still close.	Jones, a native of Texas, has one year of high school remaining. She was running three events at this meet, but she showed her endurance last year by running a 1:21:34 half marathon as a sophomore.
	Oklahoma State's Anissa Angelosante finished fourth 18:17.18. The girls' races tended to have smaller fields here, with only seven running the 5,000 and five in the steeplechase.
	Natasha LaBeaud moves into the lead, but Kate Niehaus and Nichole Jones are still close.
	Niehaus finished fifth in the two-mile (10:21.90) at the Nike Outdoor Nationals less than one week earlier. The top two runners here, provided that they had run faster than 16:30 during the qualifying period.
	LaBeaud begins to pull away. LaBeaud did have the qualifying standard, so she was basically guaranteed a spot on the team which would compete at the IAAF World Junior T&F Championships in August, since no one would break 16:30 here.