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Nicole Blood went to the front at the start of the junior 5,000m. She had run many cross country 5Ks before, but this was her first one on the track.
Francis Santin (right) and Alice Schmidt led the field on the first lap of the second 800m semi-final.	Alice Schmidt won in 2:03.96, Maggie Vessey finished second (2:04.02), and Jearl Miles Clark was third (2:04.42). Frances Santin (right, 4th, 2:05.08) was the last qualifier for Sunday's final.	Nicole Blood went to the front at the start of the junior 5,000m. She had run many cross country 5Ks before, but this was her first one on the track.	Whitney Anderson, a recent high school graduate from Colorado, gradually worked her way up to second place, and was gaining on Blood at the end of the race.	Blood, a high school junior from New York, managed to hold off Anderson for the win, 16:30.90 to 16:33.32.