Salem hosted a prep cross country meet yesterday.
The Lady Cats were 2nd behind Centralia. Breanna Thurman led Salem with 2nd place overall. Macey Thorsen was 6th and Aila Laird 10th.
The boys were 3rd out of 4 teams. Hunter Malan led Salem with 5th place, Robby Shober 10th and Ricardo Salgado 15th. Salem races again Saturday at Granite City.
Christ Our Rock was also in Salem running. Junior Sarah McKowen won the race overall in 19:03. Rylee Brammier also medaled grabbing 7th, Alexis Livesay was 23rd.
On the boys side, Elijah Gregor was 3rd in a time of 15:44. Zerek Koch was 13th, Isaiah Lyons 23rd, Thomas Taylor was 26th and Liagel Lyons was 29th. The Christ Our Rock Cross Country Team will compete at Murphysboro.
Centralia won the girls event with 31 points followed by Salem with 60, Mt Vernon 80 and no team score for Christ Our Rock.
In the boys event, Mt Vernon was 1st with 22 points, Centralia 67, Salem 68 and COR 94.

