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[email protected] October 2018 S THE BEACON Page 1B BEACON PORTS SCENE By By Jack Chris Zoller Nobbe beaconsports @live.com [email protected] Cross Country Off and Running in the Area EC Girls Make Clean Sweep of Girls’ Quad Meet Cross country in southeast- ern Indiana is well underway, and despite By the wet August, most meets have been able to Maxine take place. South Dearborn’s Klump home cross country course Community has moved back to the campus Correspondent of Moores Hill School after a few years back at the main campus in Aurora. Long-time [email protected] coach Jeremy Baney again exhibits his skill at course layout with a viewer-friendly design that still presents good challenges to the runners. The South Dearborn Knights under the guidance of Coach Baney hosted a four- way meet with East Central, Jac-Cen-Del, and Milan on August 21. The meet started with a slight delay to await the passing of a rain shower. Just prior to the start of the meet, a wonderful rainbow was visible behind the runners at the start line. Despite the course now being a bit muddy, the Lady Members of East East Central, Milan, Lawrenceburg, and South Dearborn girls’ cross country teams prepare to start under a rainbow seeming to end in Carnegie Hall in Moores Hill. The race had been slightly delayed due to a rain shower and had the wonderful occurrence to be a race for a pot of gold on the course. Trojans, coached by another long-time running coach in the area, Steve Cotherman, came out and ran a fabulous race in claiming the top five positions to record a perfect score of 15 in the race. Leading the way for EC were junior Emilee Wedding. With the new course and only one preceding race, Wed- ding set a new course record of 21:48 for the 5K course. She was followed by team- mates Lauren Greiwe (22:12), Emma Fey (22:12), Lily Greiwe (22:43), and Riley Davis (22:57). Halle Davis (7th) and Lacey Kelly (9th) rounded out the varsity run- ners for the team. The Lady Knights were the second-place team with a distant score of 65. Leading the Lady Knights was junior Brooke Rohe (24:43), and sophomores Emily Rector (25:02) and Ella Bashor (25:35) placing 10th through 12th respectively. Breanna Helton (26:48) was 14th and Katelyn Brown (28:22) was 18th to complete the sc