For the third time in the past five seasons, the Medical Lake boys won the 1A cross country state championship. This time, however, the Cardinals did it in a most dominating way, leaving runner up Northeast A League rival Riverside a distant 52 points behind in the final standings.
It is a good thing Medical Lake's boy's cross country team runs better than they cut hair.
One of the Cardinals rewards for winning a third 1A state championship, which they did in dominant fashion Nov. 4 in Pasco, was to be able to apply the shears to head coach Gene Blankenship's lengthy mane of salt and pepper locks.
And to add a welcome injury to Blankenship's pride came the kids' desire to make the veteran coach have hair that resembled that of the current president of the United States, a poke at his personal political preferences.
Suffice to say they didn't come close, but neither did a...
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