St. Joseph-Ogden's Rachael Graham pulls ahead of Monticello's MacKenzie Westwater and East Central's Alison Vogel in the prelims of the 100-meter dash at the 2008 Unity Girls Invitational Track Meet on April 11, 2008, in Tolono. Frigid temperatures along with strong gusts out of the west made for difficult running conditions for track athletes that Friday. The St. Joseph-Ogden girls' track team finished the annual meet in sixth-place. Graham later finished the finals in 8th-place.
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