Miroux continues to run away with MCC award

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They’re going to start calling it the Mike Miroux Award pretty soon.

The Mount Mercy College sophomore from Spring Valley was named Midwest Collegiate Conference Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Week for Sept. 28. It is the second time he has earned the honors during the first month of the season and fifth time in his career.

The former Hall standout broke the 27-minute mark for the third time in his career and clocked the eighth-best time in school history in the 8K race at Friday’s Brissman-Lundeen Invitational. He finished 29th out of 373 runners with a time of 26:27.2 in the annual event, in Davenport, Iowa, hosted by Augustana.

Miroux also won the MCC honors Sept. 7 and claimed it three times as a freshman.

Miroux’s brother, Kyle, a freshmen runner for Mount Mercy, was 276th with a time of 30:42. 

• Sophomore Colin Mickow of Princeton led the Fighting Illini for the second time in as many races, placing seventh overall with an 8K time of 24:48 in the Sept. 18 Illinois Intercollegiate Championships in Normal

Mickow also led the Illini with a winning 18:52 in the Sept. 4 season-opening Illinois Challenge. The Illini ran in Friday’s Wisconsin Inter-Regional meet in Madison, Wis.

Volleyball

• Kelsey Polte’s (Hall) senior season at the University of St. Francis in Joliet has been lost to a Sept. 1 ankle injury during the first home match of the season. She ruptured everything in her ankle, her mother, Laurie, said, and has been in a boot for six weeks. The Chicagoland All-Conference first-team selection last year is considering taking a medical hardship redshirt and going to grad school next fall.

The season has been much brighter for Polte’s sister, Erin, who is a starting freshmen setter for Graceland University (Lamoni, Iowa). She had 23 assists and seven digs in Monday’s 3-1 win over Grand View.

• Former Princeton standout Leah Shaw had nine blocks for Illinois Central in  Tuesday’s 25-15, 25-8, 25-13 win over Lincoln Land. ICC is ranked third in NJCAA Division II.

Golf

• Danny Nelson (Princeton), a senior golfer at St. Ambrose University, finished in a tie for 18th place in this week’s Lindenwood Invite in St. Louis. Nelson improved his score each step, going from an 83 to a 79 to his final-round 71.

Another former  PHS ace, Gwen Holmes, is competing in her first CCIW meet for Millikin University this weekend.