At Saturday’s Southern Maine Class B Regional meet held at Twin Brooks in Cumberland, the Laker girls were once again limited to three runners due to illness. Their goal was to run strong individual races.
Natalie Thomas (60 at 28:21) had a very strong second half of the 5k to finish as the top Laker.
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