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UTEP, El Paso athletes move on to NCAA track and field championship finals

Current athletes from UTEP and former El Paso high school athletes competed at the NCAA Track and Field Championships. Bret Bloomquist/El Paso Times

UTEP's Michael Saruni made sure he left nothing to chance in Wednesday's preliminaries of the NCAA Track and Field Championships.

Saruni's teammate Jonah Koech and Houston's Brian Barraza, a Franklin alum, left a lot to chance and lived to get away with it.

Florida's KeAndre Bates, a Burges alum, ended up seventh in the long jump final as he came up short in a national title defense.