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Published May 13, 2009 01:56 am - After a one-year absence, the regional cross country meet will be returning home — to Boardman High School. A Don McCormack column: Regional CC returning to Boardman DON McCORMACK Star Beacon After a one-year absence, the regional cross country meet will be returning home — to Boardman High School.
Because of heavy rainstorms last October, the course at Boardman after the Spartan Invitational damaged the course to the point that Northeast regional race director Jim Fox and Ohio High School Athletic Association officials made the decision to move the regional to GlenOak High School in Canton. However, the races are coming home. “We’re glad to have it back, but I can’t say enough nice things about the people at GlenOak — how well they cooperated in putting on a fine regional,” Fox told John Vargo of the Warren Tribune. “The help of all of our officials — the people who gave up a Saturday and came back all the way over there — really helped the meet run as well as could be expected making changes at the last minute. Teams qualified, individuals qualified. Overall, we were satisfied. “We are glad, very glad, to get it back at Boardman.” Fox also said there are some measures — preventative in nature — are being taken to readjust the course and make it as weatherproof as possible. “There’s some additional drainage they’re working on and some re-adjustment of some of the areas of the course that got the most muddy. We’re making some adjustments there to avoid those areas if at all possible,” Fox told Vargo. “They’ve already been out this spring with the rollers to roll the course. And, of course, the grass seed we planted last year is coming up very, very well. “Overall, I think the things we did last year to get the course ready and what they’re doing right now should make it a lot better for this year.” On second thought... Staying in the Mahoning Valley, turns out the letters of departure from the All-American Conference by four league members was much ado about nothing. A few weeks ago, Hubbard, Lakeview, Liberty and Niles — members of the AAC White Division — submitted letters stating it was the collective’s intention to withdraw from the three-tiered conference after the 2009 spring sports season was concluded. White Division members Salem and Struthers did not submit letters. Hearing that news certainly got the attention of area schools Conneaut, Edgewood and Jefferson, which will be fending for themselves in the immediate future with the imminent demolition of the storied Northeastern Conference. However, Hubbard, Lakeview, Liberty and Niles recently rescinded those letters of intended departure from the AAC. AAC Commissioner Clem Zumpella told the 
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