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 The Blue Devils placed second in the Saturday (Oct. 2) girls’ Lincoln Prairie Conference cross-country meet at Arthur. Argenta-Oreana won the team crown with 27 points. Villa Grove was next with 41 points. Junior Emma Buesing was the fifth-place finisher, completing the 3-mile course in 22 minutes, […]
By Fred Kroner Villa Grove captured a runner-up finish on Tuesday in a four-school girls’ cross-country meet at the UI Arboretum, in Urbana. Team honors were won by Urbana Uni High (19 points), followed by Villa Grove (67), Oakwood (75) and Tuscola (81). Emma Buesing led the Blue Devils, running […]
By Fred Kroner The Blue Devils didn’t have enough runners to be scored as a team in the 44th Tuscola Cross-Country Invitational on Saturday (Sept. 18) at Wimple Park. Junior Emma Buesing led Villa Grove, placing 45th in a field of 134 competitors. Her 3-mile time was 23 minutes, 7.41 […]
By Fred Kroner Three juniors set the pace on Saturday (Sept. 11) for the Villa Grove girls’ cross-country team in the Shelbyville Trails Invitational. Emma Buesing placed 14th in the 81-runner field. She toured the 3-mile layout in 22 minutes, 3.8 seconds. Madison Logan was 37th in 24:17.1 and Kyleigh […]
