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In a dominating performance, Proctor finished in first place in the Lapeer County boys race, ending the race with a time of 17:51, nearly thirty seconds faster than his closest competitor. All of this was, according to Proctor, on a course that was not nearly has difficult as he thought it was going to be.

"It was pretty hilly out there," Proctor said. "This course has its fair share of uphill and downhill slopes. I'm pretty tired after running that course."

Proctor also was excited after the race about claiming the honor of being named Lapeer County champion.

"I feel pretty good about it," Proctor said. "I took a few weeks off this summer before I got back to working out for the season near the beginning of July.

"It feels good when that pays off."

Proctor's performance paid off indeed. The senior led for nearly the entire length of the course, and never slowed down until he had crossed the finish line.

"Congratulations to Matt Proctor," Brown City cross country coach Russ Reitz said. "Congrats to him on being the Lapeer County champion. Matt had a good race, leading the field the entire way. As a team, almost all of our runners were ahead of pace from a year ago.

"We should have a very exciting second half of our season."

Almont's Don Tobias was the second runner to cross the line. Tobias came in second with a time of 18:20, which allowed him to finish just in front of Capac's Rick Jones, who came in third with a time of 18:21.

Proctor was joined as a medalist by two other Brown City runners. Andrew Tidrick (19:02) and Matthew DeSchutter (19:04) finished in 11th and 12th places respectively.

Lapeer won the boys trophy overall with six runners who medaled. Led by a fourth place finish by Zach Kirby (18:26), the Eagles claimed both the girls and boys trophies as County Champs. Other medalists for East included Bryan Bush (6th - 18:36), Camden Maresh (8th - 18:58), Jeff Baeckeroot (10th - 19:01), Joe Taylor (13th - 19:08) and Cody Coulter (18th - 19:37).

Lapeer West had two boy runners medal. Scott Boller came in 7th place with a time of 18:57 while Patrick Martindale finished in 17th place with a time of 19:32.

Imlay City's top finisher was Kevin Ahrens, who place 5th with a time of 18:30. Capac had two medalists, led by Gideon Gaiter (9th - 18:59) and Chris Paluch (15th - 19:24). Almont had two medalists, as James Strachan came in 14th place with a time of 19:16 and Stephen Savonne finished in 19th place with a time of 19:41. LakeVille's Andrew Chmielewski (16th - 19:29) and Marlette's Dan Hart (20th - 19:44) were the final two medalists at the meet.