Five Grade Nine students at Northern Secondary School have won gold medals as the winning team in the midget girls category at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations Cross Country Race. The three kilometre event was run Saturday in muddy farm fields at Duntroon, a crossroads on the route to Collingwood. It was particularly perilous, the Northern runners report, on downhill portions of the course. Footing was chancy and some of the competitors were not wearing spiked shoes. They arrived at the finish line smothered in mud. It had, said Northern’s Alex Weir, a few runners ready to just go home. But the NSS team had come to run. You don’t give up when you have been practicing a sport since elementary school. Coach Michael Chapman explained that the final triumph was electronically calculated by digital chips embedded in the bibs worn by each runner. Great work ladies. Photo left to right (rear) Eve Boyer, Parker Hopkins, Alex Weir (front) Ireland Robertson, Zoe Lexovsky. The South Bayview Bulldog
