Shepherd tops Gladwin boys at first Jack Pine jamboree

Gladwin’s Elijah Christensen ran past Old Glory and his own school record Saturday at the Veterans Serving Veterans Invitational.
Gladwin’s Elijah Christensen ran past Old Glory and his own school record Saturday at the Veterans Serving Veterans Invitational.

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Gladwin has won the past three Jack Pine Conference boys’ cross country championships, but Shepherd gave the defending champs the old 1-2 last Wednesday in the league’s first jamboree of the season and finished first with 40 points.

The Flying G’s were second with 45 and nobody else was close.

Host Meridian placed third with 93, followed by Clare with 101, St. Louis with 111, Bullock Creek wi…