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B-CC Wins First Cross Country Relay
By BEN WALKER
Georgetown Prep's top two runners handoff at the Woodward cross country relay. The Prep team came in third behind B-CC and Whitman.
Ever since Greg Dunston and Corky Logsdon teamed up as track coaches at Woodward, things in county high school track have been happening. Last spring, the two staged the nation's first high school steeplechase and last week the duo presented another first - a high school cross country relay. Fifteen schools participated as both boys and girls ran laps around a newly-designed one-mile course.
For the boys it was three miles apiece as in individual cross country races; for the girls, two miles each. To add the relay aspect, the runners formed teams of two as each ran a mile before handing off the baton to their partners.
B-CC took to the new type of race as both its teams won, the boys by 19 points over Whitman and the girls by six over host Woodward. Kennedy, which prepared for the event by running the five miles from Kennedy to Woodward, produced the fastest team as defending state champion Ed Boggess and Kent Thomas ran their six miles in 30:41.
The dual meet season began Tuesday and will run each Tuesday through the state meet Nov. 9 at the University of Maryland.
Journal Photo by Linda White. Ed Boggess of Kennedy takes the baton from teammate Kent Thomas on their way to taking top pair honors with a combined time of 30:41 for six miles.
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