After six years and dozens of races together, seniors John Leaf, Ben Dery and Dan Brelje ran their final race as Chisago Lakes High School cross-country teammates last Saturday.
Just days after the state meet, no check that, hours after the race finished, Ward Gilkerson and company looked into their crystal ball, focusing on next year.
Contrary to what you read in the deer hunting magazines, you probably waited, as I did, until a week or so prior to the gun season to scout the woods for logical locations to set up your stand.
The North Branch Vikings were ready. Thanks to a jam-packed regular season schedule filled with teams like Lakeville, Duluth East, and Hibbing, a match-up with St. Francis wasn’t about to scare them, not one bit.
Ken Orwoll knew it all along. When asked last week how he thought his boys cross country team would do at the section 7AA cross country meet, Orwoll privately confessed that he had his team placing second when it was all said and done.