by Rob Moseley
Editor, GoDucks.com

Two nights after a similar strategy made him the NCAA Outdoor 10k champion, Edward Cheserekkicked into the lead of Friday's 5,000-meter final with about 200 to go.

This time, the man Cheserek passed was Arizona's Lawi Lalang, a seven-time NCAA champion himself. And Lalang was up to the task.

Lalang tracked down Cheserek coming off the final turn and pushed past the UO freshman over the final stretch to win his eighth individual title. Cheserek, denied his fifth NCAA title of the year, settled for second, with teammates Trevor Dunbar and Eric Jenkins following right behind.