Cross-country stars

Mary Kate Skrabanek (at left), an eighth grader at Memorial Middle School, took home first place at the Spring Branch District cross-country meet, and Chandler Gartner (at right), an eighth grader at Spring Branch Middle School, took home second place. Skrabanek’s winning time for the two-mile race was 12:42. The course for the first meet was a one-mile race, and the course increased in length throughout the season.

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