By Fred Kroner The state-ranked St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ cross-country team turned in a solid showing on Saturday (Sept. 25) while dominating their own Spartan Classic cross-country invitational. The Spartans’ top five runners all entered the finish chute within 32 seconds of one another, leading SJ-O to the team championship. SJ-O’s […]
By Fred Kroner Three of the state’s top six-ranked Class 1A cross-country teams competed in the Saturday (Sept. 25) Spartan Classic at St. Joseph, with team honors going to third-ranked Unity (56 points), ahead of No. 2 Monticello (66 points) and the sixth-ranked SJ-O squad (87 points). Nineteen schools entered […]
By Fred Kroner Lance Retz placed fourth on Saturday (Sept 18) in the 13-school Mahomet-Seymour Invitational boys’ cross-country meet at the Swiss Valley course in the Lake of the Woods. Retz ran the 2-mile layout in 11 minutes and 53 seconds. He was among the 11 St. Joseph runners to […]
By Fred Kroner Eight St. Joseph-Ogden athletes competed in the Richard Spring Invitational on Saturday (Sept. 18), but they were scattered among three races so the state-ranked Spartans weren’t scored as a team in any of the races. In the varsity race, featuring 63 full teams and 463 runners, SJ-O […]
By Fred Kroner The state-ranked St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ cross-country team didn’t have enough runners to be scored as a team on Saturday (Sept. 18) in the Richard Spring Invitational at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. A total of 61 schools entered full teams and there were 457 runners in the varsity division. […]
By Fred Kroner Led by the first- and second-place finishers, Holden Jones and Mason Guido, St. Joseph-Ogden’s boys’ cross-country team ran past Monticello, 24-33, on Tuesday (Sept. 14) in a dual meet at Lodge Park. In a 2-mile race, Jones was timed in 12 minutes and 4 seconds. Guido’s final […]
By Fred Kroner In a Tuesday (Sept. 14) dual meet at Lodge Park, in Monticello, the top seven St. Joseph-Ogden runners crossed the finish line within 15 seconds of one another in the girls’ 2-mile race. Leading the way was Kaytlyn Baker, who was third overall in 15 minutes and […]
By Fred Kroner The St. Joseph-Ogden boys’ cross-country team stepped up its challenge on Saturday in the First to the Finish cross-country meet at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. The Spartans are ranked second in Class 1A in the latest poll by milesplit.com, trailing only Chicago Latin. The First to Finish meet […]
By Fred Kroner The Spartans had the individual runner-up in three of the seven flighted races on Saturday (Sept. 4) at the Chrisman Cowchip cross-country invitational. 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 […]
By Fred Kroner St. Joseph-Ogden was the runaway winner on Saturday (Sept. 4) in the Chrisman Cowchip Classic cross-country invitational. 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 the second through seventh runners […]
