WATERTOWN — The time has come for the 2025 Watertown High School cross country runners to put their best foot (or feet) forward.

The Arrows hosted the Watoma Invitational on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025 at Cattail Crossing Golf Course — the only home appearance of the season .

It kicked off the stretch run for Watertown, which will compete on Oct. 11 in the Eastern South Dakota Conference meet at Mitchell and Oct. 18 in a meet at Huron before finishing the season on Oct. 25 at the state cross country meet in Huron.

Thursday's 12-school meet included every ESD school but Yankton and also featured the likely state Class AA individual favorites: eighth-grader Brianna Reilly of Harrisburg and senior Mikah Peters of Brandon Valley.

"We have the ESD meet next week in Mitchell at a course (Wild

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