Metcalf Invite
Huskies to run in meet named for Jackson grad
Jackson County Central will be in a field of 14 teams competing in the Paul Metcalf Invitational cross country meet Friday at Mountain Lake Golf Course.
The meet is named after longtime cross country and track and field coach Paul Metcalf, a Jackson High School graduate. He was inducted into the Minnesota Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1999.
Metcalf started the cross country program at Mountain Lake High School in 1972 and the first Laker Invitational that year. The meet was known as the Wolverine Invitational after a cooperative pairing with Butterfield-Odin began and continued after the pairing was dissolved. It became the Paul Metcalf Invitational in 2017.
It will be the second meet of the season for JCC, which opened its season last Friday at the Fairmont Earlybird Invitational. A scheduled meet at Marshall Monday was canceled due to the heat.
After running a shortened 4000-meter event at Fairmont, varsity runners will use the customary 5000-meter distance on Friday.
There is one state-ranked team and one ranked runner scheduled to compete. Host Mountain Lake Area/Red Rock Central/Comfrey’s boys are ranked eighth in Class A and Fairmont’s Macy Hanson is second in the Class AA individual girls ratings.
JCC’s next scheduled meet is the Gerry Smith Invitational hosted by Tri-City United in Montgomery on Thursday, Sep 5.
Paul Metcalf Invitational
At Mountain Lake
Schedule
10 a.m.: Girls varsity 5000 meters
10:30 a.m.: Boys varsity 5000 meters
11 a.m. Girls and boys JV 4000 meters (together)
11:30 a.m.: Girls junior high 2000 meters
11:45 a.m.: Boys junior high 2000 meters
Teams
Jackson County Central
Adrian/Ellsworth
Blue Earth Area
Fairmont
Glencoe-Silver Lake
Heron Lake-Okabena
Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial/Nicollet
Madelia
Murray County Central/Fulda
Mountain Lake Area/Red Rock Central/Comfrey
Russell-Tyler-Ruthton
St. James Area
United South Central/Alden-Conger
Windom