PORTAGE – Prior to Tuesday’s regional, the last time Lilly Zelasko had run was seven days earlier, when the New Prairie senior won the 3,200 meters in the Chesterton Sectional.
For the second week in a row, Zelasko came into a post-season race with zero hard ground training, and for the second week in a row, she came out a champion.
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