WILDWOOD • Give Round Three to Lafayete High junior Dylan Quisenberry.

Nothing like a quick trip to Chicago just to get away, do a little team bonding, and come back with a little hardware.

52ND HANCOCK INVITATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY NOTEBOOK

SMITHTON • Freeburg finished with five of the top seven runners and six of the top 11 to easily take the team title Saturday at its own Freeburg Invite at Smithton City Park.

LEMAY • Don t mistake Brendan Pratt s place in the Festus boys cross country pecking order with his importance to the team.

Coach Carl Florczyk's boys and girls cross country squads at Freeburg High are routinely among the best in Class 1A.

EDWARDSVILLE • A pair of seniors, Brydon Groves-Scott and Wes Schoenthal, finished 1-2 individually for Edwardsville, and it was enough of a punch Saturday to give the host Tigers the team tit…

CROSS COUNTRY NOTEBOOK

FOREST PARK • Back in the late 1800s, the town of Festus was nicknamed Tanglefoot. Perhaps it can be called Fleet of Foot.

FOREST PARK • O'Fallon High senior Dorrian Gordon ran in the immense shadow of Patrick Perrier the last two seasons. But with Perrier now red-shirting at Stanford University, it's Gordon's tim…