Sappey claims individual title as cross-country Bucs take fifth in home invitational

TENNERTON – It was only the second meet of the season but for Buckhannon-Upshur’s Alex Sappy, he is certainly in midseason form already. That is because Sappey won the Buckhannon-Upshur Invitational Saturday, winning the race by a huge nine-second time gap and besting 97 other runners with a time of 17:14.8. Runner up Colson Annon…

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