Medical Lake runs strong at 'Hole In The Wall' invite

Medical Lake’s boys and girls cross country teams got the lickin’ they expected last week, but then turned things around to have solid finishes in an important invitational race.

“Lakeside did pretty much what I thought, and we did the same thing to Freeman,” Cardinals head coach Gene Blankenship said of his team’s spankings in the opening race of the abbreviated Northeast A League dual meet schedule.

The state’s No. 1-ranked 1A Eagle boys topped the Cardinals 19-40 while the girls earned a similar win, 19-36. Medical Lake breezed past the Freeman boys 40-85. No score was available for the gir...