WAWARSING – On Saturday, April 22, eleven members of the Galena Growlers High/Middle School Mountain Bike team traveled down to Wawarsing, NY for a race at Lippman Park, their first race of the 2018 Spring NICA NY League.

There were 24 teams that came together with over 256 kids to race across the sixth to 12th grade racing categories.

The races started out in the morning at 9:30 a.m with the freshman boys and girls attacking the high school 3.3 mile cross country course.

In the freshman boys race, the Growlers saw our two first time racers, Andrew and Daniel Thompson. Both boys finished without issues in 25th and 27th place respectively with 29 racers in the boys freshman race.