Story By Sam King, JCOnline Photo by Jerry Schultheiss
A light drizzle dampened the course at the Tippecanoe
Amphitheater just before Tuesday’s cross country sectional, but it
did little to slow down the West Lafayette Red Devils.
Led by a pair of victorious sophomores, West Lafayette
swept the boys and girls sectional titles for the third time in four
years.
“This
is my favorite weather, where it’s drizzling a little bit and there
is no sun beating down on you,” said WL junior Logan Berndt, who
finished ninth.
Unchallenged, the third-ranked West Side girls won their
fourth straight sectional, posting a perfect score by taking the top
five spots. Sophomore twins Lauren and Kristen Johnson finished 1-2,
finishing side by side in 18:55.
Another
twin, sophomore Cooper Williams, repeated as the boys individual
champion in 16:10, His twin brother Dylan was part of a pack that
claimed the fourth through seventh spots and helped separate the Red
Devils from runner-up Lafayette Jeff.
“We
were just trying to go out there and do as well as we could to get
the win as a team, and we succeeded in that,” Cooper Williams said.
Last
year, McCutcheon ended WL’s streak of three straight boys sectional
titles. Early Tuesday, it looked as if Lafayette Jeff would keep the
Red Devils from claiming the team title before a last-mile push.
Following
Williams was Frankfort’s Cody Bray and Rossville’s Solomon
Heffernan, but after that came WL juniors Jake Cohen and Dominic
Patacsil and sophomores Evan Johnson and Dylan Williams. That bunch
propelled past Broncho runners Cayce Griffin, Daniel Feltis, Zack
Vandivier and Josh Long to help the Red Devils outscore the Bronchos,
23-70.
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