With the top four ranked girls cross country teams competing, the Class 3A Hoffman Estates Sectional was going to be a real test Saturday morning at Busse Woods.

And No. 1-ranked Prospect proved that it was ready for the challenge as the Knights ran to the championship over runner-up Barrington by a 52-75 margin. The Fillies were without injured junior standout Mia Sirois again, and she is not expected to run at the state meet either.

Lake Zurich took third place with 101 points while fourth-place Hersey (113 points), sixth-place Jacobs (209) and seventh-place Maine South (214) all earned berths downstate.

Prospect senior Meg Peterson (16:53.98) won the 3-mile race by six seconds over Barrington’s Victoria Tarara while freshman Lennox Szymonik led Jacobs in fourth place.

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