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Plainfield South Boys Take 2nd, Plainfield Central Girls 3rd in Track Meet
All of Plainfield's high schools managed to make their mark in the Southwest Prairie Conference event.
All four boys and girls prep teams took away something from the Southwest Prairie Conference cross country meet Saturday in Oswego.
It was a learning experience for the boys and a coming out race for the girls.
The Cougars took second to six-time championship Minooka, 42-53, in the boys race.
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The Wildcat girls took third place, their highest placing in a conference meet since 2006.
“Our hat’s off to Minooka and its program,” Plainfield South boys coach Jason Crowe said. “They are raising the standard in the conference every year and that’s a good thing. did great today, so it’s great to see this conference becoming more and more competiive.”
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Upstart Plainfield East was missed two of its top runners, but still managed to take fourth with 71 points. Plainfield Central placed sixth (158 points) and Plainfield North was seventh (217).
“Today was a learning experience for our guys,” Crowe said. “We’ll got back to the drawing board after today. We’re a little disappointed with the second-place finish.”
Sophomore Dan Lathrop led the Cougars by taking fifth in 15:47. Tyler Ryan was seventh (15:51) and Cody Dyer posted a top-10 finish, taking ninth (15:57).
Joseph Suarez of Plainfield East took sixth in 15:49 and Jake Runnion was eighth in 15:54.
Plainfield Central’s lone all-conference runner was Brad Anderson, who took 14th in 16:13.
Minooka placed five runners in the top 16 to score 42 points and win its sixth straight league championship.
“The goals are to advance to the sectional and state and those two goals are still out there for us,” Crowe said. “We’ve got two weeks to get ready for the sectional and that’s what we’re focusing on right now.”
Plainfield Central’s triumphant trio of Grace Lawrence (third in 18:58), Emily Wihnanek (sisth in 19:15) and Nicole Pease (seventh in 19:19) propelled the Wildcats, who scored 68 points, just three back of champion Oswego.
Jackie Aremka’s eighth-place finish in 21:06 led , which took fifth (109).
Plainfield East placed sixth (147) and Plainfield South (168) came in seventh. Anissa Rodriguez was the Cougars’ lone all-SPC performer, taking 14th in 21:42.
