X-Country improves from last season

The Saratoga Panthers cross-country team showed improvement from their times last year at their first meet, the Green River Invitational, on Friday.

“Generally speaking, we ran a lot faster this year than we did at the same course last year,” Coach Rex Hohnholt said. “All of them … we’re talking a minute, minute-and-a-half faster.” Hohnholt explained that the conditions were not favorable—hot, with no breeze—so he was “pleasantly surprised.”

According to Hohnholt, this is the first time that Saratoga has had a girls’ varsity team in three years, and two girls, sophomo...