Junior Mason Betts will return to Lakeside Municipal Golf Course on Saturday to compete at the state cross country meet. He competed at the state meet last year and Head Coach Dan Vargason says going to the meet a second time has a different feeling.
With going to the meet back-to-back years. The expectations are going to be higher for Mason. Last year at the tournament he ran a 16.51.2 ending up in 39th place. This year he hopes to be taking home some hardware.
Betts ran and 16.27.1 to qualify for the state meet putting bets in a good spot to potentially meet his goal of top 15. Betts has been putting in the work during practice to try to make top 15.
Betts started running cross country as a sophomore. He played football as a freshman and Coach Vargason says Betts has made great progress and continues to get better and better throughout the season.
Betts will run at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course at 11:15 AM on Saturday in Class 3A.
