FRYEBURG — “This sort of thing just doesn’t happen.”
That was the reaction of Bill Reilly, the longtime boys’ and girls’ cross-country running coach at Fryeburg Academy, after senior Alfie Walker shocked the running world in the Pine Tree State by winning the Class B State Championship in Belfast, Maine on Saturday.
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