Greg Eccher and Cassie Ahrens claimed the individual titles at Friday's Grand Junction Cross Country Invitational. Photos by Michele Bisbee.
If there is one constant when considering the Grand Junction Cross Country Invitational course each year at Canyon View Park it is that it will not be the same. There is an infinite number of ways one can loop around the park for 3.1 miles, and the meet has explored a healthy subset of those loops over the history of the event. Runners who return from one year to the next expecting the same course are in for a surprise.
This year's version of the course proved friendly to the host Grand Junction Tigers, who came home with the boys team title and a second for the girls.
GJHS Junior Greg Eccher is making winning a habit with his third individual title in as many weeks. He and teammate Charlie Medina took the pace out hard and quickly broke free from most of the rest of the pack. Only Fruita Monument's Chuck Bisbee maintaine...