The Villa Grove girls placed sixth and the Blue Devil boys were 12th on Saturday (Oct. 9) in the Cumberland Invitational. Junior Emma Buesing was the first Villa Grove finisher in the girls’ race. She ran 29th with a 3-mile time of 24 minutes, 7.27 seconds. Teammates trailing her were […]
By Fred Kroner Freshman Kurt Zimmerman was the lone top-10 placer for the Villa Grove boys’ cross-country team on Saturday (Oct. 2) in the Lincoln Prairie Conference meet in Arthur. Zimmerman ran to a seventh-place finish with a 3-mile time of 17 minutes, 42.35 seconds. Other teammates who competed at […]
By Dani Tietz The Blue Devils had one top-five runner on Tuesday (Sept. 21) in a four-school boys’ cross-country meet at the UI Arboretum, in Urbana. Urbana Uni High (33 points) was the team winner, followed by Heritage (41), Tuscola (69) and Villa Grove (90). Kurt Zimmerman led VG, placing […]
By Fred Kroner The Blue Devils were led by two freshmen in the Saturday (Sept. 11) Shelbyville Trails Invitational cross-country meet. Kurt Zimmerman was 11th in the 98-runner field. He ran the 3-mile course in 17 minutes, 50.3 seconds. Chase White was the second VG finisher, entering the chute in […]
By Fred Kroner Kurt Zimmerman and Chase White were top-10 finishers for Villa Grove on Wednesday (Sept. 8) in the Cumberland County boys’ cross-country invitational at Neoga. Zimmerman was fourth in the 3-mile race in19 minutes, 24.42 seconds. White was ninth in 21:00.04. Other VG participants were: Caleb Wiessing (14th […]
By Fred Kroner Five Blue Devils – three of whom were freshmen – participated in the Chrisman Cowchip Classic cross-country invitational on Saturday (Sept. 4). The 26-school event was a flighted race where the No. 1 runners from each school ran only against each other, with other races held for […]
