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SPASH surprises with second-place finish at State Meet

By STEVENS POINT NEWS
November 3, 2017
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By John Kemmeter


Ranked 13th in the state a month-and-a-half earlier, the Stevens Point Area Senior High School (SPASH) boys cross country team capped a late-season push by finishing second at the WIAA Division 1 State Meet at The Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids Saturday, Oct. 28.

Sophomore Tristan Sernau fights toward the finish line to place 47th for the Stevens Point Area Senior High School (SPASH) boys cross country team at the WIAA Division 1 State Meet at The Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids Saturday, Oct. 28.
(John Kemmeter photo)

Top-ranked favorite Middleton rolled to the State Title with 76 points, in what turned out to be a race for second place.

When the final team scores were displayed, the fourth-ranked Panthers were in second place with 177 points to beat out sixth-ranked South Milwaukee (191) and ninth-ranked Monona Grove (197) for the State Runner-up Trophy, and set off a celebration among the SPASH runners and their fans.

“I’m feeling great,” said sophomore Tristan Sernau. “Coming from being on JV last year to becoming runners at state is just amazing.

“I worked so hard this year, and we all have,” he said. “We came from nothing to something.”

“We just kept getting better, and we kept beating teams that we didn’t think we could beat,” said SPASH boys cross country coach Donn Behnke. “But we came into the State Meet, I think we all felt that Middleton was the only team we couldn’t run with, and everybody felt that way.

Senior Johnny Hyland finished 33rd to lead the Stevens Point Area Senior High School (SPASH) boys cross country team at the WIAA Division 1 State Meet at The Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids Saturday, Oct. 28.
(John Kemmeter photo)

“There were some good teams, but we felt that our advantage was our balance and our depth,” he said. “And that’s what it turned out to be.”

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