M-ette Young captures 4th as Cross Country season begins

The M-ette Cross Country team boarded an early morning bus Saturday, and traveled to eastern Montana to participate in the first meet of the season. The meet would take place near the Medicine Bear Complex facility in Poplar. Despite a looming haze on the horizon caused by the wild fires burning all over the state, the light cloud cover and cool temperatures provided ideal conditions for running a 3 mile race.

The twenty seven girls representing eight teams walked the course prior to the race, and made their way over blacktop streets, rutty gravel roads, groomed prairie, rocky hills, c...