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Cross Lutheran Girls Cross Country Wins National Lutheran Cross Country Meet
This is the third straight year the team has won at the meet.
The Cross Lutheran girls’ cross country won the National Lutheran Cross Country meet for the third straight year Saturday at Concordia University in Mequon, Wisconsin.
The Crusaders overcame illness and very cold and windy conditions to hold off fellow Illinois representative Batavia Immanuel Lutheran 59-90.
The meet was won by seventh grader KC Thornton from Trinity Lutheran in Monroe, Michigan, but was closely followed by the Cross pack of seventh grader Nicole Greyer (2nd), eighth grader Lauren Daffenberg (3rd), and seventh grader Ava Weyrich (4th).
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Greyer, Daffenberg, and Weyrich each earned 1st Team All-American honors with their finishes. Seventh graders McKenzie Lux (31st) and Ashley Malas (42nd) and fifth grader Maggie Dervis (76th) also ran strong races to claim the national title.
The National meet victory caps off a very successful season in which Cross won the LSA state meet last weekend, this is the second year that Cross has claimed both the state and national championships.
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In the boys’ race seventh grader Zach Rice was the lone Cross representative. He ran a smart race, finishing in 23rd place to claim Third Team All-American honors.
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