"People started to break away, but he found another gear and went right with them. "Erik ran tough as nails tonight," said Navy coach Al Cantello. I was able to hold some of them off, but not all." "I was in third heading into the last straightaway when all of a sudden three guys were around me. The pack never really spaced out until the last quarter of the race. It seemed as if everyone was waiting for Chris Mulvaney of Arkansas to make a break for it, but he never did. "The first lap saw the leaders out at about 59 seconds and I was at about 61, but we were all together. "Coach Al Cantello told me to expect to go out quick at the start of the race," said Schmidt. Indiana's Sean Jefferson captured the NCAA title with a time of 4:00.16. In a close race, he finished only one-quarter of a second out of second place (4:01.99, Nathan Robison of Brigham Young). Schmidt, who was seeded 12th entering the Championship and recorded the sixth-best time in Friday's preliminaries (4:04.09) to advance to the final, was clocked in 4:02.23 in his fifth-place showing Saturday night. Navy senior Erik Schmidt (Sr., Spokane, Wash.) placed fifth in the finals of the mile at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship, Saturday evening at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark. Schmidt Places Fifth at NCAA Championship Earns All-America Honors
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