The men's cross county team had their best race of the season at the Saginaw Valley Championships on Wednesday October 18th. The men's team finished 2nd overall which ties the best all time finish in the Saginaw Valley League. Bay City Western scored a total of 44 points to take the conference title, edging out Powers by 8 points. 

The Chargers were led by David Murphy and Bryce Gross who finished 3rd and 4th overall with times of 15:53.44 and 15:56.02. Peter Huey finished 11th overall, Sophomore Caleb Carignan finished 15th overa ll and senior Kieran Murphy finished the scoring for the Chargers in 19th. 

An amazing 13 Chargers ran career best times. 

Murphy and Gross earned first team All SVL honors with Huey making 2nd team. 

Murphy moved up to 10th all time and Gross cracked the all time list running the 12th best time in school history. Charger legend Chase Dietrich was knocked off the top 20 all time. Gross moved up to number 2 on the sophomore list and Caleb Carignan clocked in at 7th on the Sophomore all time list. 

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Overall an amazing 13 Chargers ran their season best times. 

As a group the Chargers ran the 4th fastest team time in school history. They trail only the 1999, 2002 and 2003 state meet performances. Teams which finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the state finals. 

Complete results can be found at the link below

https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/221760/info

The women's team had the best race of their season and moved up two places from their projected finish to take 6th overall. Grace Murphy led the Chargers with a 9th place finish which earned 2nd team all conference honors. 

Seniors Aerika Pertler and Maggie Gilin finished 37th and 39th overall. They were quickly followed by Grace Evanoff and Kate Fulton in 47th and 48th. 

The Chargers will now gear up for the Regional Championships where they will look to place in the top 3 and qualify for the State Championships.