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...Hackett, who had recorded the third best time in the nation at that distance prior to yesterday's preliminaries, qualified for last night's championship final (held after press time because of the time difference) by sailing to the touchpad in the time...
...Hackett's time, more than a full second faster than the meet record he set at Easterns, was the fourth fastest qualifying standard among the top six who made the finals. But Crimson assistant coach Steve Berizzi remarked after the trials that "Bobby has a good chance to move up one place, and he's certainly within striking distance of first...
...Hackett may have to wait until Saturday's 1650-yd. freestyle, his strongest event, for a shot at his first NCAA title, however, as a pair of Olympic gold medalists--Long Beach State's Tim Shaw (4:21.19) and UCLA's Brian Goodell--grabbed the two middle lanes (indicative of the top two seeds) with their swims in the prelims...
While there's no question that Hackett's a speedster of their caliber (after all, the camera crew for ABC's "Wide World of Sports" was in Cambridge last week to film a profile of him that will air tomorrow afternoon), even Berizzi admits, "Shaw's had much more experience at this kind of competition...
...Bobby Hackett qualified 4th for the 500 free finals...