Cross country is a numbers game

Aislinn Bell, Lauren Quinn and Callie Nesbitt celebrate the Lady Pirates’ eighth-place finish. Photos by Stephanie Nichols/special.
Aislinn Bell, Lauren Quinn and Callie Nesbitt celebrate the Lady Pirates’ eighth-place finish. Photos by Stephanie Nichols/special.

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For the News-Leader...

In the three short months of August, September and October, five freshman girls at Fernandina Beach High School learned that “XC” spelled cross country.

Mikaela Nichols,…