COTTAGE GROVE – Carter Bengtson is running away and hiding from all of his competition.
The Cottage Grove junior, who’s ranked No. 1 among the state’s Class 4A cross country runners after placing sixth in the state as a sophomore, coasted to victory Saturday with a time of 16:26.93 in the CG Bramble Scramble, finishing nearly 55 seconds ahead of his closest challenger. In last week’s Paul Mariman Invitational at Philomath, Bengtson outdistanced the second-place…
