The East Ridge High School girls cross country team competed on Saturday morning, October 26, in the Lake County Championships. East Ridge hosted the county championships for the third consecutive year. Last season, the Knights won the county championships, and were sought to defend their title this season.Today’s county championships were the second home meet for the Knights this season, as they had hosted the SSG Hammond Invitational at the school last month. Also, today’s meet was the last meet of the regular season for the Knights, as they will soon begin making their final preparations for the postseason. The start of the race took the girls across the football field and out of the stadium and onto the grassy and hilly campus of East Ridge. The course ran the perimeter of a lot of the campus, and ascended a large hill affectionately known as the “Green Monster.” Then the course normalized with some flat straightaways, making one big loop around a portion of the campus. The field of runners merged back into the “Green Monster,” but this time to descend it, and re-ran the perimeter, and back into the football stadium, and then ended with an approximately 300M track finish.