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State Bound: Kramer, Van Butsele qualify for WIAA D3 State Cross Country Meet
Sam Kramer leads
Prairie du Chien senior Sam Kramer placed fifth in the boys race at the D3 Prairie du Chien Sectional Meet at the Prairie du Chien Country Club this past Saturday, Oct. 25th to become the first PdC boy to qualify for the state cross country meet since 1992. - photo by Derick Kelly
The Prairie du Chien Country Club played host to a WIAA Cross Country D3 Sectional Meet this past Saturday afternoon, and a pair of local runners qualified for the upcoming state cross country meet at the Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids. Prairie du Chien senior Sam Kramer erased three years of close calls by finishing fifth in the boys race in a time of 17:17 to become one of the first five runners not on a qualifying team to claim a spot in the state meet. Kramer’s qualification also broke a 33-year drought for PdC Boys Cross Country as he is the program’s first state qualifier since Randy Bunders in 1992....