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Track & Field: Running events to be held, but field events canceled at Mendota’s Don Gooden Invite

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MENDOTA - The show will go on for Saturday’s Mendota’s Don Gooden Invite, but only on the track.

The field events for the Don Gooden Invite have been canceled due to wet grounds, school officials said.

All running events will go on as scheduled with the meet now starting at 11 a.m.

Mendota will be hosting Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio, Annawan-Wethersfield, Bureau Valley, Earlville, Fieldcrest, Hall and Princeton along with Ashton-Franklin Center, El Paso-Gridley, Harvard, Hinckley-Big Rock, Newark, Pecatonica, Sandwich and Somonauk.

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin has been sports editor of the BCR since 1986 and is Sports Editor of Putnam County Record. Was previously sports editor of the St. Louis Daily News and a regular contributor for the St. Louis Cardinals Magazine. He is a member of the IBCA and Illinois Valley Hall of Fames. He is one of 4 sportswriters from his tiny hometown Atlanta, IL