Sports : VSHS Cross Country runners ready for State

The VS Band drum line salutes the VSHS boys cross country team.

Cross country runners get scores of high fives in the hallway.

Lily Horst and Bristi Gerber lead the cross country state qualifiers through the VSHS hallls.

Students line the halls to honor VS cross country state qualifier Friday.

Colorful shirts and hair are part of the VS cross country's preparations for State.

Running in the halls was briefly permitted Friday afternoon at Vinton-Shellsburg High Schoo, where the student body stood in the hallway to cheer and offer high fives to the members of the boys cross country team and freshmen girls Lily Hort and Bristi Gerber.

Lily and Bristi will compete at noon on Saturday at the Fort Dodge Golf Course, in the Class 3A girls state cross country meet. They both qualified as individuals. The boys will race at 12:30 p.m.; they qualified as a team in Class 3A.

Area residents were invited to a send off at the high school at 4:45 p.m. Friday.