What do you find more exciting: long series of playoffs, or a sudden-death contest?  (Maybe it depends if you are a Cubs fan?)  In cross country the season focuses on one sectional race, followed by the state championship.  Friday afternoon at Monroe’s Twining Park sees fifteen Division Two teams line-up for that one chance.  Our southwest corner of the state is different than any other area in the midwest.  We live on unglaciated land (glaciers went right around us and reconvened in Illinois!), large areas of prairie (why do you think our ancestors settled here?) and fast cross cou...