FORT DODGE, Iowa — All of the trials, tribulations, thrills and spills of a cross country season unlike any other suddenly came down the last 800 meters, with three teams still within reach of a national championship.
Allen Community College, which spent time as the top NJCAA Division II team in the country before a late swoon dropped the Red Devil men to third, was neck and neck with North Iowa and Cowley.
How close was it?