KALAMAZOO, MI — The Kalamazoo area played host for one of the largest cross country meets in the Midwest this past weekend as more than 400 teams gathered for the 2014 Portage Invite.
Fittingly, numerous local runners shined against some of...
Oct 7th 2014, 12:00pm
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Midland placed five runners in the top 20 to finishes first at the Saginaw Heritage Invite’s Divisions 1 and 2 race on Saturday.
“That’s big to get all five in the top 20 in a big meet,” Midland coach Martyn Hollenbeck said. &ld...
Oct 5th 2014, 1:55am
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Shepherd junior Walker Priest finished sixth overall in a very deep, highly competitive Division 3 field of the Portage Northern Invitational run on Saturday afternoon, and his time of 15 minutes and 56.7 seconds that bested his previous personal-...
Oct 5th 2014, 1:30am
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Dathan Rizenhein held the American record for the 5,000 meters from 2009-10 at 12:56.27. He finished ninth at the Beijing Olympics and was the first American to cross the finish line. At 14:41.9 he holds the current record for the Portage Northern Invi...
Oct 5th 2014, 12:16am
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Northville boys cross country earned a first-place finish in the Division 1 race at the Portage Northern Invitational on Saturday with 106 points. However, no individual came within 30 seconds of the first place time set by Grand Blanc's Grant Fisher a...
Oct 4th 2014, 10:36pm
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Concord placed five runners in the top 20, led by Jesse Hersha’s first-place finish at 15 minutes, 22.9 second, to win the Division 4 boys race at the Portage Northern Invitational on Saturday.
“Lots of hard work through the last few months...
Oct 4th 2014, 9:25pm
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The Grand Rapids Christian boys cross country team won the 2014 Division 2 Portage Invitational on Saturday with 99 points.
Justin Varineau led Grand Rapids Christian with a ninth-place finish and a time of 16:11.3. Benny Briseno (14) and Zach Terpstra...
Oct 4th 2014, 9:24pm
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