Rough Second Day for Kurt Felix

As Blue Through and Through hinted at yesterday, Kurt Felix was not going to finish in the top eight in the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in College Station, Texas, even though he was second going into today.  That is because he needed to own a substantial lead going into today to even finish in the top eight.  Three of his worst events were scheduled for today.
Felix was riding high until finishing third in the high jump, an event he was expected to thoroughly dominate.  That set him back 150 points heading into the final three events today.  The first competition of the today is in the books, and instead of 16th place (where he was seeded), Felix was able to take 14th in the 60-meter hurdles.  However, he slipped in his projected point total, running a slower time than he did at the Western Athletic Conference Championships.  He'll need to break career marks in both the pole vault and 1,000-meter run to finish in the top eight.

60-meter hurdles:
1.  MantasSilkauskas   1033
2.  David Klech    1012
3.  Miller Moss   997
4.  Gray Horn   952
5.  Jeremy Taiwo   947
6.  Romain Martin   935
7.  Moritz Cleve   930
8.  Bjorn Barrefors   927
9.  Mateo Sossah    920
10.  Jepheth Cato   915
11.  Lars Rise   903
11.  Michael Morrison   903
13.  Curtis Beach   879
14.  Kurt Felix    848
15.  Kevin Lazas   848
DNS   Wesley Bray, who apparently is out of the competition.


And now the pole vault is complete--Felix was 15th or last out of the remaining competitors.  His dreams of All-America status are over.  That is unless he can run the 1,000-meters in under 2:25.
Pole Vault:
1.  Cato   972
2.  Morrison   941
3.  Moss   880
3.  Martin   880
5.  Barrefors   849
5.  Lazas    849
7.  Cleve   819
7.  Horn   819
7.  Sossah   819
7.  Rise   819
11.  Beach 760
12.  Silkauskas   702
13.  Taiwo   673
13.  Klech   673
13.  Felix   673
DNS--Bray


The results are now also complete in the 1,000 and here are the final results.  Compare them to the projections made last night to see how close they were.

1,000-meter run:
1.  Beach   990
2.  Klech   963
3.  Taiwo   937
4.  Sosah   901
5.  Cleve  896
6.  Horn   874
7.  Rise   863
8.  Morrison   855
9.  Felix   841
10.  Martin  840
11.  Moss   817
12.  Lazas  770
13.  Barrefors  760
14.  Silkauskas   740
Cato  644

Final Total:
1.  Moss      5,973
2.  Horn    5,910
3.  Martin    5,897
4.  Morrison  5,872
5.  Silkauskas  5,832
6.  Klech    5,831
7.  Taiwo     5,780
8.  Barrefors   5, 779
9.  Rise       5,771
10.  Cleve    5,722
11.  Felix    5,680
12.  Sossah     5,647
13.  Beach     5,637
14.  Lazas     5,595
15.  Cato      5,363
16.  Bray      2,994
Just for fun, I'll leave the projected finish unchanged so you can see how my original predictions fare.

Projected Finish:
1.  Moss      5,963 points
2.  Horn    5,885 points
3.  Barrefors   5,882 points
4.  Morrison  5,877 points
5.  Rise       5,862 points
6.  Martin    5,849 points
7.  Taiwo     5,836 points
8.  Silkauskas  5,812 points
9.  Klech    5,737 points
10.  Cleve    5,712 points
11.  Lazas     5,632 points
12.  Sossah     5,628 points
13.  Beach     5,626 points
14.  Felix    5,623 points
15.  Cato      5,510 points
16.  Bray      2,994