Tonganoxie cross country to host Frontier League meet next week
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Tonganoxie’s Brook Nihart competes Saturday at the Tonganoxie Invitational at the Leavenworth County Fairgrounds. Nihart won the individual title and the girls team won the team title.Tonganoxie High cross country teams will compete Saturday in a triangular against Pleasant Ridge and Maur Hill Mounty Academy on the University of Saint Mary campus in Leavenworth.
Races start at 9 a.m.
THS will then be gearing up to host the Frontier League Meet on Oct. 15 at the Leavenworth County Fairgrounds. The girls race starts at 4:30 p.m., with the boys race to follow.
Tonganoxie teams will compete Oct. 24 at a Class 4A substate meet in Baldwin.
Two seeded boys races and two seeded girls races will take place, with the Top 3 teams from each race qualify for state. The Top 15 runners in each race also will qualify for state.
Other teams assigned to the substate at the Baldwin Golf Course are Atchison, Baldwin, Bishop Miege, Chanute, Eudora, Coffeyville, Fort Scott, Hayden Catholic, Independence, Labette County, Louisburg, Ottawa, Paola, Parsons, Rock Creek, Santa Fe Trail and Wamego.
Buhler is the other substate site.
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