CONWAY — Quality over quantity will be the recipe for success this season for the Kennett High cross-country ski teams. While there are 13 girls out for the team this year as the Eagles make a run for sixth consecutive Division II State Championship, there are only seven boys out for the sport this season, the lowest number in more than a decade.
“We have two pretty solid groups,” Steve Vosburgh, Eagles’ head coach, said by phone Sunday. “I think we have some good skiers and good competitors.”
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