Article: Morris, Pirates capture back-to-back crowns

Fred Miller wasn't buying it, even though he got a good chuckle out of it at Saturday's MSL Meet at Busse Woods in Schaumburg.

"It was the pasta sauce, right?" a fan shouted to Miller, Palatine's boys cross country coach, after Palatine won its second straight league meet.

Miller cracked a wide smile and pretended to agree with the passerby, one night after Palatine's entire program consumed pasta at a dinner party.

Miller knew that heart, guts, determination and otherworldly lungs had more to do with the Pirates' impressive 38-point total than did tomatoes and oregano.

Pirates junior Glenn Morris ate up the field for the second year in a row, zipping to a first-place 15:11 around the ...

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