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Elijah House wins Brady Street Sprints: BCR notebook · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Elijah House wins Brady Street Sprints BCR Notebook written by
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Hieronymous. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. Elijah House has run
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  Speaker 1: and won a lot of races over the course of
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  Speaker 1: his track and cross country career at Bureau Valley High School,
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  Speaker 1: Sack Valley College and Saint Ambrose University. He's never raced
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  Speaker 1: one quite like the Mercy One Genesis Brady Street Sprints
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  Speaker 1: he ran Saturday in Davenport, Iowa, which is a four
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  Speaker 1: hundred meter race with an eight percent incline. The former
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  Speaker 1: BCR Runner of the Year from Sheffield took it to
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  Speaker 1: the house with a winning time of one o'clock nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Former Saint Ambrose teammate Chris Miserindino was second in one
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  Speaker 1: oh one eighty one. Despite the new event, House, who
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  Speaker 1: will be a senior this fall at Saint Ambrose, said
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  Speaker 1: he felt confident coming in. I just kept talking about
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  Speaker 1: how I was going to win and built my confidence up,
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  Speaker 1: he said. On the day, I just tried to play
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  Speaker 1: to my strengths and didn't let it be an all
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  Speaker 1: out effort and didn't let it be a kick from
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  Speaker 1: five meters away nice. Howse said the race was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit easier than what he expected. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people talked it up to be the worst race of
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  Speaker 1: their life. I guess just having the experience from really
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  Speaker 1: hard workouts made this race not seem so bad, he said.
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  Speaker 1: I would say the hardest part is knowing when to
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  Speaker 1: kick from since the incline causes a lot more lactic
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  Speaker 1: than a normal flat four hundred would, or maintaining good
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  Speaker 1: form as the lactic starts to kick in the higher
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  Speaker 1: you get up. Max Bryant to fly with Redbirds. Former
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  Speaker 1: BCR Player of the Year Max Bryant has signed to
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  Speaker 1: pitch for Illinois State University next spring. He had verbally
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  Speaker 1: committed to Valparaiso University coming out of Southwestern Illinois Junior College,
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  Speaker 1: but was thrown a curveball by the Redbirds. The twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four Hall graduate from lad pitched for the Illinois
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  Speaker 1: Valley Pistol Shrimp this summer. Named to the Prospect League
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game. McCauley nets hole in one. Fred McCauley
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  Speaker 1: shot a hole in one on the number seventeen hole
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  Speaker 1: at Chapel Hill golf Course in Princeton on Thursday,