The Smith-Cotton Lady Tigers didn’t expect to place high in Saturday’s Joe Arbisi Invitational at Sedalia Middle School.
“This meet, we had 13 teams competing in it,” Smith-Cotton coach Jerry Tankersley said. “It’s going to be tough unless you have nine really fast girls.”
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