Medical Lake take third at state cross-country championships - 2019 sports top 10 year-in-review

MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinal cross-country team had to settle for third place at the state 1A cross country championship meet at Pasco’s Sun Willow Golf Course in November.

“I was really pleased with our kids,” head coach Gene Blankenship said. “They competed really well.”

He was quick to point out that, as a team, “Finishing third is respectable.”

Team leaders included Victor Long, Quintin Collins, Reid Headrick, Angel Mendez, Jeremiah Windle with “one of his best races of the year,” Connor Palmen and Benjamin Henry.

It was the boys’ eighth trip to state, according to Blankenship, and despite...