Marsico smashes mark

How dominant was Megan Marsico's performance at the Group A Region C cross country championship held at the Southwest Virginia Training Center Wednesday afternoon?

Consider that the Glenvar sophomore's time of 18 minutes, 42 seconds (a course record) was 1:10 ahead of the second-place finisher, Brittany Bryant of Patrick Henry-Glade Spring.

That 70-second spread was approximately the equivalent of the time differential between the third through the 15th finishers.

"I feel good," Marsico (pictured right by John Herzog) said. "At least I didn't get lost. I'm kind of bad with directions."

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