The boys placed 7 runners in the top 10 to dominate a triangular meet on Tuesday scoring a near perfect (15) 17. The Panthers bested the hosts (50) and Peoria Christian with 71.
Charlie Link demolished the field winning in a time of 16:40 on the 5K course. Teammate Jacob Gibson finished nearly 90 seconds behind in 18:00 for second place. Sophomore teammate Gus Shultz was just 1 second behind Gibson to complete a 1-2-3 sweep. Alex Bomleny finished in 18:14 good for 5th place and Zane Romero completed the Panther scoring crossing in 18:41 for 6th.
Aiden Jepson (7th) 19:06 and Zeke Weidel (9th) 19:16 rounded out the EP top 7.
The Lady Panthers took 2nd behind Sherrard scoring 37 points to the Tigers 28. Orion also fielded a team scoring 63.
Sarah Link took 4th overall to lead EP in 21:34. Jillian Norman took 8th in 22:39 with Jessie DeNeve one second back to grab 9th. Chloe Slock finished in 23:42 for 11th and Clara Ashdown placed 13th in 23:58 to complete the Panther scoring.
The top seven finishers for EP also included Brooke Lalley (14th) 24:50 and Taylor Robshaw (15th) 26:02.
The team will now take the next week to prepare for the TRAC conference meet next Tuesday at Baker Park in Kewanee.
