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Jennifer
Patruno of the Syracuse Striders.
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Middle
distance runner Chris Gentile.
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Suzanne
Hussey of the B.A.A.
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Recent
Brandeis University graduate Mariko Tansey Holbrook.
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Holbrook
is now in a graduate program at UMass-Amherst.
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Current
Brandeis University runner Gretchen Chick.
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The
Greater Boston Track Club's Sloan Stegrist.
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Greater
Lowell's Kara Haas.
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Judy
Copley.
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Brandeis'
Camille Stevens-Rumann and Shannon Markley.
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Nicole
Esposito of Athletics East.
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The
Greater Boston Track Club's Katie Famous.
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Emerging
from the woods with about 600 meters to go...
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...Amy
Rudolph (left) and Kate O'Neill were just about dead even.
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Rudolph,
a 2000 Olympian had run here quite a bit while at Providence College...
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...But
O'Neill, a Milton High School and Yale Graduate, had more experience
on the Franklin Park course.
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Kathy
Newberry emerged from the woods just behind the leaders, but didn't
look like she would catch them in the final 600m.
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Ann
McGranahan emerged from the woods having passed two runners in the
final mile.
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In
the home stretch, it was a question of whether O'Neill - who had
finished second at a handful of big races in the past year...
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...would
be able to hold off Rudolph, a former American Record holder in
the 5,000m.
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