Cheney Free Press -

A group of Medical Lake cross country runners got to toughen up Sept. 24 at the Nike XC in Portland.

This meet attracts dozens and dozens of teams and hundreds of athletes, many the crème-of-the-crop from the West Coast and the Cardinals came away with a number of notable performances and even some “I told you so’s” to their veteran octogenarian coach.

Senior Reid Headrick jumped out of team competition and ran in the elite Danner division where he clocked a time of 16 minutes, 03.8 seconds on the 5,000-meter Blue Lake Regional Park course landing him in 28th. The individual champion...