Cardinals look to District 7 race after regular season

Medical Lake head cross country coach Gene Blankenship hopes the league schedule he helped craft does not come back to bite him and his teams.

The showdown for the Northeast A League boys’ regular season title between a pair of undefeated teams — Medical Lake and Deer Park, both 5-0 — which occurred this past Tuesday, Oct. 18, comes on the heels of two dominating, but easy league wins for the Cardinals.

“Unfortunately we’ve had two easy league meets in a row, now we have to go against the big one,” Blankenship said, referring to the head-to-had with the Stags. “I would have preferred to have a...