EBEN JUNCTION — Ashdeyn Gerow was in the hunt for a cross country title for a while here Wednesday.

The Rock Mid Peninsula freshman, however, couldn’t quite keep pace with Stephenson senior Canon Kuntze, who retained his Skyline Central Conference championship on this sunny and cool afternoon.

“He’s ranked No. 1 in Division 3,” Gerow said. “I knew it was going to hurt, but I stayed with him as long as I could. It helped a lot by having the competition.”

Kuntze covered the hilly 3.1-mile course in 18:29 with Gerow clocked at 18:41.2.

“This feels pretty good,” Kuntze said. “It was a nice day and I went out reasonably confident. He was definitely right with me for the first mile, then I strided it out and got little more of a gap. My arms felt heavy for some reason. Having a race (at Norw

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