Given weather contingencies, Saturday’s Class 4 District 3 meet was solid for a program and school on the brink of breaking through into becoming something of a distance-running power in our part of the state. The meet was held at Hannibal-LaGrange’s course – much simpler than the three-hour bus ride the Tigers have endured the past couple go-arounds.
Nevertheless, Kirksville advanced five runners to next weekend’s State meet at Gans Creek in Columbia (University of Missouri’s course). Two girls and three boys qualified by finishing in the top 30. Both girls and boys qualified as a team last year out of a strong District.
On the girls’ side, junior Amber Kottwitz finished 17th, and classmate Mary Frushour was 23rd overall to advance in the grassy 3.1 mile (21:09 and 21:21).
For the boys, senior Skyler Cook was 17th, junior Noah DeBlauw was 23rd, and his classmate Stevin Moore was 28th. (17:54, 18:01, 18:04).
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