MBA JS XC Stuns Fantasy Owners

As you probably know, fantasy cross country is a huge deal. With the draft a distant memory and midseason acquisitions complete, the MBA JS XCers have been providing fantasy owners with some fireworks up and down the roster. Nevertheless, they had an unfavorable matchup against BA, USN, CPA, Ensworth, Harding, and JPII. The pundits were predicting bust performances from the Big Red. Never listen to the pundits. Even before they got off the bus, the boys started racking up the fantasy points. Hank O'Cull nabbed the coveted points for receiving a uniform in Coach Holland's algebra class. (Owners were counting on those points after Jameson Meriwether had scored them last week.) Nicholas Sawyer, Luke Sullivan, and Connor Neff collectively locked down 45 points with their innovative lacrosse ball ----> walnut warmup tag. William Oliver decided to switch his position eligibility from coach to runner this week, so he'll be a popular pickup on the waiver wire. Joah Dowell and Jude Andrews added points for last-minute uniform change drama mere moments before the start of the race. Once the race began, the Big Red really piled on the points. Max Reddien, Nael Idrees, and Arvin Raissi earned the toughness points as they fought shin splints and/or lingering sickness in some of the grittiest running you'll ever see. Even after the team's grueling week of practice, Zander Pughsley pushed himself to finish 10 seconds faster than last week. The push gave Jameson Meriwether the nudge he needed to finish with a flourish. Working together, those two secured the lead dog points. Led by the quiet confidence of a surging Gus Rogers, Cullen Weaver once again earned the "only person whose parents met on this course" points. A massive haul of points came from the teamwork of John Crosslin, Paul Campbell, Isaac Simpson, and the Big Red triumvirate of Reed Pennington, Joah Dowell, and Jack Newman. They even helped Coach Reynolds earn the "tears shed on account of heartwarming teamwork" points. Hampton Campbell then claimed the gentleman points by thanking everyone for the work he himself had just done to help the top 11 runners all finish within a minute of each other. The post-race refreshments provided by the Sawyer Family couldn't have tasted sweeter. In the equivalent of a QB throwing a touchdown pass to himself and then doing the same thing for the two-point conversion in the final minute of the MNF game, John Tran provided the week-winning performance with 7 quadrillion points for finding his teammate's lost phone in the bus back on campus. Final team results are yet to come, but the Big Red seems to have taken the win with six runners in the top 10 and a total team score of 28. (In real cross country, fewer points is a good thing.)