On April 27, the Arcola Junior High School track teams traveled to the University of Pennsylvania to compete in the Penn Relay’s PIAA Middle School 4x100 relay championship.

For the boys, the team of Griffin Billicic, Jon Koehler, Nick Rinella and Nick Shaffer placed first overall with a time of 48.26 seconds.

On the girls side, the team of Alanna Dodson, Caroline Duffy, Marisa Antinori and Angela Ramsden won its division with a time of 51.01 seconds to set a new Penn Relay record, breaking the old 2004 mark by 0.74 seconds.  This is also the second straight year the Arcola girls team won the championship, with relay members Dodson and Duffy apart of the 2011 team.