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Galesburg-Augusta senior Landen
Bouchard ran to a medal-winning
finish in the Division 3 boys' cross
country race at the annual Portage
Invitational Saturday at Portage West
Middle School.
Bouchard hit the finish line in 17
minutes 16.1 seconds to place 42nd.
The top 50 in each varsity race
throughout the day in Portage earned
medals.
The Division 3 boys' race included
443 finishers.
That time is a new personal record
for Bouchard by a little more than 13
seconds.
“That’s really awesome,” said cross
country coach Christina Thomas. “He
broke the high school record for cross

country boys. That’s the second time

he’s broke it this season. That’s really

awesome, too, that he’s doing so

well. He’s a senior so that makes me

kind of sad but I’m happy that he’s

doing really well.”

He also had a personal record run at

the Southwestern Athletic Conference

jamboree Sept. 25 where he placed

16th.

The SAC Championship race will

be held at the 131 Motorsports Park

Thursday, Oct. 10.

The G-A boys' team also had soph-

omore Nick Stevens 197th in 19:19.4

in Portage, junior Knighten Rockwell

239th in 19:52.6 and freshman

Ashton Dingee 240th in 19:53.2.

All three of them set new personal

records while finishing in less than 20

minutes for the first time.

The Galesburg-Augusta girls' team

had Ellesa Callender place 289th

in 26:12.7 and freshman Claire

Callender 327th in 27:47.6.

The G-A team will also set a new

kind of record as a whole Friday

night, Oct. 11, when they launch what

could become a new tradition for the

district.

The team will run the game ball

17.5 miles from Delton-Kellogg High

School to Maskill Field at Galesburg-

Augusta High School in time for the

football team’s homecoming game

with the Panthers.

Thomas said this has never been

done before.

“I was trying to come up with ideas

to involve my team in homecoming,”

XC Rams set personal records at Portage Invite;

team to run game ball to homecoming Friday

she said, “and try to get more visibil-

ity for them because as my husband

said, ‘all the ball sports get all the...’

you know what I mean. So, by them

running the ball into the stadium.

People will see them.”

The team will start at the Delton-

Kellogg’s parking lot after they are

driven to the location by Thomas.

“And, at about 3:30, they’re going

to start running,” she said, “and I

have a whole course laid out.”

The team will go through Hickory

Corners as two to three people at a

time run with the game football.

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