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Pekin pounces into 2023

Andy Krutsinger

Aug. 30, 2023 3:57 pm

The girls’ cross-country team paced Pekin fall sports in 2022, as the Panther girls rolled to victory in the Southeast Iowa Super Conference championship meet.

Pekin put five runners into the Top-10 at he SEISC meet, including four returners. Chloe Glosser won the SEISC title as a freshman. Now-junior Lauren Steigleder finished third. Now-senior Audrey Fariss was seventh, and now-Junior Brooke Sylvester finished 10th.

Pekin parlayed that momentum into a state qualification, finishing ninth.

Pekin’s Chloe Glosser hits the home stretch of the Class 1A boys’ race at the 2022 state cross-country race. (Andy Krutsinger/The Union)
Pekin’s Chloe Glosser hits the home stretch of the Class 1A boys’ race at the 2022 state cross-country race. (Andy Krutsinger/The Union)

The Pekin boys’ cross-country team finished ninth in the SEISC. Junior Brady McWhirter took fifth in his sophomore campaign.

The Pekin football team was 3-5 last season. The Panthers return second-leading rusher Will Adam (361 yards, 3 TDs). Adam also had 173 yards and three touchdowns through the air. Jaedon Wolver returns after taking five catches for 123 yards and two touchdowns.

The Pekin volleyball team went 3-22 on the year. Senior defender Alex Parsons leads the rush into 2023.
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