Eagles, Savages, Wrap Up Season in Ottumwa

Ottumwa’s Wildwood Park was, ultimately, the final site for the Keota and Sigourney cross-country teams in 2014.

Neither team was able to earn any individual qualifiers, but Sigourney fielded two runners who weren’t far off; especially one, in particular.

Sigourney’s Tyler Crawford was the top finisher among the two schools and was just two seconds away from qualifying for State, as an individual. The sophomore was passed on the final stretch by Lynnville-Sully’s Canyon Kuhlman for the coveted tenth position. Kuhlmann wound up clocking in at 16:08, while Crawford finished in 16:10. Nonetheless, it was an impressive season for Crawford, who cut off nearly three and a half minutes from the time he ran in Sigourney’s first meet, which came on the same Wildwood course.

Read the full article in the Oct. 29 edition of the News-Review.