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For those you who missed the NCAA Div1 Championship meet you can watch the replay online at ESPN360.com. You go to the full schedule and look for March 13 NCAA Indoor T&F Championship and you can watch it in its entirety. For those that just want to jump to the hurdles it starts at 44 minutes into the program.

NC ranks # 3 in NCAA Scoring by State

The state of North Carolina ranks #3 behind #1 Florida and #2 California in State scores at the 2010 NCAA D1 Men's Indoor based on where each individual scorer went to high school:
{Florida scored more in the 400 (20 points) than all but 4 states scored in all the events}
(1st time Texas hasn't been Men's high scorer in several years)

#3 NORTH CAROLINA = 35
200m 3, Antonio Sales, S Carolina, East Chapel Hill HS, 20.52, 6
Mile 8, Dylan Ferris, Stanford, East Forsyth HS, 4:04.73, 1
60H 1, Ronnie Ash, Oklahoma, Knightdale HS, 7.56, 10; 2, Booker Nunley, S Carolina, Garner HS, 7.58, 8; 6, Johnny Dutch, S Carolina, Clayton HS, 7.72, 3; 8, Spencer Adams, Clemson, Butler HS, 7.90, 1
TJ 3, Alphonso Jordan, Georgia Tech, Hopewell HS, 53-4.25, 6

2010 Sophomore Indoor Season

Booker closed out his sophomore indoor season with a bang after a sluggish seasonal start. He took the first part of his season to work on trying to improve his start and early on from meet to meet it was hit or miss for him. However by the weekend of the Gamecocks indoor Invitational meet he had started to see the fruits of his labor paying off. It all finally came together at the SEC Indoor T&F Championship where he narrowly missed 1st place by .03, behind LSU's Barrett Nugent 7.65, after hitting hurdle 4. However that meet produced two personal best ever times for him in the form of a 7.71 in the prelims and a 7.68 in the finals automatically qualifying him for the NCAA Indoor T&F Championship meet.

After his coaches rested him for a week he was then ready to make his first indoor appearance at a NCAA Indoor Championship. His preliminary run time was 7.69 giving him a 3rd place finish in his heat behind Oklahoma's Ronnie Ash and Nebraska's Lehann Fourie, however it was the 6th fastest time overall in prelims securing his spot in the finals. In the finals Booker who has struggled with setting in the blocks was out. The start was still a bit sluggish but it is his strong finish that he relied upon to go after the 1st place spot. Barely missing first place behind Ronnie Ash Booker happily and graciously accepted his silver medal knowing that he had closed out his season victoriously with another big PR of 7.58 which was .02 off Ronnie's winning time of 7.56!

Besides Ronnie Ash 1st place and Booker's 2nd place finish 2 more former North Carolina high School graduates were in that finals. Johnny Dutch from South Carolina University who finished 6th and Spencer Adams of Clemson University who finished 8th. Ronnie, Booker and Johnny actually all came from the same Greater Neuse River Conference. Congratulations goes out to all 4 of these finalist for yet another successful indoor season!