The return of Reuben Sanca

Haven't heard much from Mass.-Lowell's distance hoss since a DNF in the indoors 5,000 at Houston.

But after going sub-14 indoors in Boston (but, unfortunately, out of eligibility), he's the first under 30 minutes outdoors, which he ran at the Walt Disney meet in Florida. Sanca leads this still-young outdoors season in the 10,000.

Since Durham will be his last meet for Lowell, keep him in mind as possible national champ. The one-time cross country All-American also got a shot at breaking the school record at that distance, provided he runs another 10k somewhere other than Charlotte.

Mass-Lowell has a solid distance crew right now, with the likes of miler Angus MacDonald and steepler Tim Guerin.

Also: Props to Slippery Rock's Jenn Harpp, an auto qualifer in the 10,000 -- and only the 3rd5th distance runner to do so in D2that event.

Late update: As a reader pointed out, Meagan Nedlo (Queens) leads the 10k field, which she recorded at that very fast Stanford Open. Three other women (including Chicas Tori Tyler and Alia Gray) got auto times. And the 5,000 at that meet produced fireworks in the d2 women's ranks, led by usual suspects Pixler (15:44) and Zeferjahn (16:03).